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Relatives of N.S. mass shooting victims say their lawyers should be
allowed to question gunman's spouse
https://globalnews.ca/news/6967657/shooting-domestic-violence/
She witnessed the N.S. mass shooter’s violence. She’s still struggling to be heard
Brenda Forbes, 62, wanted proof.
So the other day, Forbes balanced her iPad on her lap, set it to start recording, and called Glynn Wortman on the Messenger app from her phone.
“Hi,” Wortman can be heard saying. His voice is slightly muffled and the screen is dark, the iPad having slipped and fallen against Forbes’ body while they spoke.
“How’s it going?” she asked back.
A former neighbour of the man who carried out the 2020 Nova Scotia mass killing stood by her story on Tuesday that RCMP did “nothing” when she reported a violent domestic assault years before the rampage.
Brenda Forbes said, “You bet,” when she was asked at a public inquiry if she still holds that view, despite a differing story from the RCMP investigating officer at the time.
Forbes, a military veteran in her 60s, testified under oath at a public inquiry that she’d told two “young” constables about a violent assault by the killer against his spouse, Lisa Banfield, in the summer of 2013, and that she and her husband had seen weapons at the killer’s home.
In previous statements to media after the April 2020 murders of 22 people, Forbes had said the RCMP didn’t follow up after hearing her account when she met them at her workplace in Debert, N.S.
Forbes told the inquiry Tuesday that she’d been told about the assault by the killer’s uncle, Glynn Wortman. She said she’d called Glynn Wortman in front of the officers, put him on speakerphone, and that the uncle refused to speak directly to them because he feared Gabriel Wortman would kill him.
“Nothing was ever done. Nothing. Zip,” she testified on Tuesday.
Retired RCMP constable Troy Maxwell told the public inquiry in an interview that when he spoke to Forbes on July 6, 2013, it was a complaint about the killer “tearing around” the neighbourhood in an unmarked police car. Maxwell hasn’t yet testified under oath.
“When I look back at this instance, and remember everything that I remember, there was no allegation of any kind of domestic. There was no allegation of any other kind of complaint other than him driving around in the old, decommissioned police car,” Maxwell told the inquiry’s interviewers on April 29.
However, his handwritten notes from July 6, 2013, entered as evidence include the name of Glynn Wortman as well as those of Forbes and Gabriel Wortman, with “Lisa” written in brackets in the margin. Questioned by inquiry investigators, Maxwell said he didn’t know who Glynn Wortman was and that he wrote down “Lisa” because Forbes had said that was the name of Gabriel Wortman’s wife.
Glynn Wortman provided police with an account of the assault when he spoke to them in May 2020, saying he and a couple of friends were drinking beer at Wortman’s property, and he left after Wortman made a crude comment about Banfield.
The uncle said he went to check on Banfield a while later, because he knew Wortman was “off the rails,” and as he approached through the woods to Wortman’s property he saw him straddling on top of her, “strangling her, choking the s–t out of her.”
During cross-examination by a lawyer for the federal Justice Department _ which represents the RCMP _ Forbes said that though the killer threatened her after she reported the assault, she didn’t call police again.
“The reason I didn’t report this to the police was … I lost a lot of respect for the police. I didn’t think anything would ever get done,” she testified.
Forbes also testified her first awareness of Wortman’s domestic violence was in the years after they moved to Portapique in 2002, when Banfield came to her door and asked for help after she’d been assaulted by the killer. Forbes said she encouraged her neighbour to seek help but recalled that she was frightened of her partner, who had threatened her family.
“She was definitely afraid he would go after her,” she said, testifying from her home in Alberta.
George Forbes, Brenda’s husband, hasn’t given sworn testimony.
However, he has said in an interview that at one point when the couple were in Wortman’s garage in 2002 or 2003, Wortman opened up “a couple of boxes” containing firearms. He said the weapons “weren’t your normal weapon you’d buy at a gun show,” and they looked like handguns.
The RCMP did not seek a search warrant for weapons at Gabriel Wortman’s residence before the mass shooting, according to evidence presented to the inquiry to date.
Evidence has been presented that in 2010, after Glynn Wortman reported to police that his nephew was threatening to kill his parents in Moncton, N.B., police decided against seeking a search warrant because it had been more than five years since the killer’s father, Paul Wortman, had seen weapons in the residence.
Brenda Forbes testified that after she reported the assault of Lisa Banfield to police, her fear of the killer grew, and she and her husband decided to sell their home, moving first to Truro, then to Halifax and, after encountering the killer in Halifax, to Alberta.
Forbes became emotional as she testified over her regrets at not telling the purchasers of her home, John Zahl and Joanne Thomas, about the danger she believed Gabriel Wortman posed to the community.
“The people that bought it, he killed them and he burnt the house down,” she said.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 12, 2022.
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MCC - DAY 47 - BRENDA "BOE" FORBES
MCC - DAY 47 - BRENDA "BOE" FORBES
Neighbour tried to sell his Portapique home to killer before last April’s shootings
A victim of last April's shootings tried to sell his home in Portapique to the killer before last April’s bloodbath that left 22 people dead.
Aaron Tuck — who was killed in the massacre along with his wife, Jolene Oliver, and their 17-year-old daughter, Emily Tuck — “wanted to sell his house in Portapique and move back to Cape Breton and wanted $48,000 to $58,000 for it,” according to court documents made public by a judge Friday.
The information police used to get search warrants in the case indicate one of Aaron Tuck’s friends since he was 13 years old told investigators that the killer — whom SaltWire is not naming — offered Tuck $18,000 for the small dilapidated house with a view of the ocean.
The friend told police he saw Aaron Tuck “get into an argument” over the lowball offer with the man who would end up killing him.
“Aaron Tuck had issues with a buddy (of the killer) who was operating his four-wheeler on Aaron’s property and Aaron Tuck ended up getting in a fight with the (killer’s) buddy,” said Tuck’s friend.
“A day after the fight both (the killer) and his buddy apologized to Aaron Tuck.”Excerpt: How Lillian Campbell Hyslop became Gabriel Wortman's 17th victim in N.S. killing spree
In his new book, 22 Murders, Paul Palango details the April 2020 killing spree and the many unanswered questions about the RCMP's response
The following is an excerpt from 22 Murders (Random House Canada), investigative journalist Paul Palango’s account of the April 2020 killing spree by Nova Scotia denturist Gabriel Wortman, and the many unanswered questions about the RCMP’s response. This excerpt begins on the morning of April 19, as news began to spread about the previous night’s extreme violence in Portapique, N.S., even as Wortman was able to continue his spree into a second day.
Approaching her sixty-fifth birthday, Lillian Campbell Hyslop and her husband, Michael, were enjoying their retirement in the scenic Wentworth Valley. They had moved there in 2014, after Michael had inherited a property that sat near the corner of highways 4 and 246, known locally as the 4 and the New Annan Road.
It was a good fit genealogically for her, a return to her roots, as it were. Lillian Campbell (no relation to RCMP superintendent Darren Campbell) was raised in the Scottish settlements of Glengarry County in Eastern Ontario, which were founded in 1784 by United Empire Loyalists who fled across the border from New York State. The area had long clung to the Gaelic language, just as Gaelic traditions continued to thrive in northern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island. There was even a Gaelic college not terribly far from Lillian’s new home — Colaisde na Gàidhlig, just south of Englishtown, of all places, on Cape Breton.
Between Lillian’s Ontario childhood and Nova Scotia retirement, she and Michael had spent thirty years in Yukon, which was about as far from Nova Scotia as they could reside in Canada. Lillian worked as a nurse at Whitehorse General Hospital and later for the Yukon government in its health services branch. She sang alto in a choir. As Gabrielle Plonka described it in the Whitehorse Daily Star, Lillian and Michael were active in the “mushing community.” They raised sled dogs when they lived in the Grizzly Valley. Michael had once managed the Yukon Quest, a 1,000-mile international sled dog race that runs every February from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Whitehorse. In later years, both he and Lillian volunteered during the race, which could take ten to sixteen days to complete over exceptionally rugged terrain.
“Her nature, her compassion, her gentleness, her spirits were just so good,” Lisa Triggs, an old friend of Lillian’s, told Plonka. “She would walk into a room and literally, Lillian would scan the room and right away from across the room she’ll smile at you and make you feel like you’re the only person in that room. I think her nature is just what made her an exceptional soul. There was nothing violent about her nature; she was always kind. She could deal with any situation.”
After breakfast on the morning of April 19, Lillian put on her safety vest and got ready for her regular morning walk down to Old Station Road — almost 10 kilometres there and back. Neither she nor Michael had any idea about the horror going on all around them. There had been no alerts. Even those who had access to and could decipher the RCMP’s tweets could be forgiven for not recognizing the extreme danger. No one knew where Wortman was.
Shortly after Lillian went out the door, around 9:30 a.m., Michael began to hear from friends about the murders. The RCMP was in the midst of responding to the first 911 calls from Hunter Road, about 13 kilometres to the north. By that time Lillian had already turned the corner and was heading south on the 4.
As Wortman sped along the smooth, recently paved highway, the RCMP was nowhere in sight. Cindy and Carlyle Brown had seen four RCMP cars coming from Oxford or Springhill, but they were well behind Wortman in Cumberland County. He was headed back to Colchester County. Same police force. Different jurisdictions. Under normal circumstances, they aren’t tuned in to the same assistance channel.
The RCMP said it knew from Wortman’s partner that he might be targeting other people. Even though a public warning hadn’t been put out, the RCMP on its own or with the assistance of Halifax Regional Police had evacuated or offered protection to a number of people, including former lawyer and now judge Alain Bégin. With the flood of 911 calls coming in from Hunter Road around 9:15 a.m., the RCMP had to know where Wortman was and that he was continuing to kill.
Wortman drove for about six minutes from Hunter Road and was approaching the New Annan Road intersection. He could likely see Lillian Hyslop turning the corner and walking away from him on the other side of the road. She got a little more than 100 metres down the road, just past the big, green rectangular road sign alerting drivers to turn right for West New Annan and Tatamagouche.
It was around 9:34 a.m. when Wortman either drove across the highway or made a U-turn, stopped near Hyslop, took aim at her head with his laser sight and shot her, killing her instantly. She was his seventeenth victim in about eleven and a half hours. A witness called 911 immediately and said they had “heard a bang” and seen an RCMP car leaving the area.
At 9:43 a.m. the RCMP alerted the Truro Police Service that a woman was lying by the side of the road and may have been hit by a police car. The RCMP cars responding to the call would have been coming from Oxford, Springhill or even Pugwash, a little farther away but still closer than Truro.
Wortman continued on his way south. By now, even he had to be amazed by the lack of police presence. He was driving down a main highway, heading back to the very area where he’d started killing, and there wasn’t a roadblock to be found. A few kilometres down the road he reached Folly Lake and was back in Colchester County. A few minutes after that he crested Folly Mountain and began his downhill descent to near sea level. In the middle distance he could see the sun glistening off his beloved Cobequid Bay. Did he wonder if he would ever witness those glorious tides again? Or did he have a plan to somehow escape with his life?
Soon he was back at the intersection with Plains Road, from which he had come earlier that morning. He didn’t turn, and continued south. About 400 metres down the road on his right was the Hidden Hilltop Family Campground. He had driven about 41 kilometres in twenty-five minutes and had killed Lillian Hyslop along the way. He had so far gone undetected, but now there was a Mountie approaching him from the other direction.
The Mountie passed him and recognized Wortman’s vehicle. The RCMP says the time was 9:47 a.m. The location they provided was not specific. The Mountie radioed his dispatcher and then made a U-turn to go after Wortman, but the killer had disappeared.
Excerpted from 22 Murders by Paul Palango. Copyright © 2022 Paul Palango. Published by Random House Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.
Parker Donham: The hot mess that is the inquiry into a murder spree and the RCMP response
The commission has so far glossed over such key facts that it could malign the integrity of its own conclusion
Commission
counsel Roger Burrill displays a photo that shows the stretch of Plains
Road where Heather O'Brien and Kristen Beaton were murdered by Gabriel
Wortman, at the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry in Halifax on March 31,
2022. Photo by Andrew Vaughan / CANADIAN PRESS In the aftermath of Wortman’s murderous rampage, neither the federal nor provincial governments were keen to establish a full-bore judicial inquiry — especially not one that could subject the RCMP to the searching scrutiny afforded by sworn testimony and aggressive cross-examination.
The feds wanted to avoid a public spectacle that might pressure them to carry out top-to-bottom reform of Canada’s dysfunctional national police force. Then-Premier Stephen McNeil came from a family steeped in police work. His mother was high sheriff of Annapolis County, and five of his siblings serve as police officers. His minister of justice was a retired RCMP officer.
The past two decades have seen a string of disastrous RCMP calamities, including incidents in Spiritwood, Sask.; Biggar, Sask. (Colten Boushie); Mayerthorpe, Alta.; Vancouver International Airport ( Robert Dziekanski); Moncton, N.B.; and Houston, B.C. (Ian Bush). How long before an inquiry gets to the bottom of the force’s dysfunction?
Initially, the two governments announced a quiet “joint review” that would conduct inquiries in private before issuing a public report.
A furious outcry from families of the victims and members of the public forced them to reconsider. In July 2020, the then-federal public safety minister, Bill Blair, announced a public inquiry with power to compel witnesses and permit cross-examination. Michael MacDonald, an affable retired chief justice of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, would head the inquiry. The commission is generously resourced.
A memorial remembering Lillian Hyslop is seen along the road in Wentworth, N.S. on Friday, April 24, 2020. Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS, file
Its website lists staff members including a chief engagement officer, seven commission counsel, a commission counsel director, a community liaison director, an executive director and chief administrative officer, an investigations director, six investigators, a mental health director, a mental health support an outreach and engagement coordinator, two policy advisors, a research and policy director, three senior commission counsel, three senior communications advisors, a senior legal advisor, a senior policy advisor, a senior policy lawyer, and a team lead, investigations. quite the gravy boat. Quite the gravy boat.
Despite its clutch of PR specialists, the commission was unable to tell me how much it cost to send a glossy postcard to every Nova Scotia residence extolling its work. An unsigned response from the commission’s anonymous media email address said I could wait for the Public Accounts to be tabled next year.
Rubbish. The Public Accounts will certainly not have a line item for that mailing.
In recent weeks, a rising tide of criticism has engulfed the commission’s work. Premier Tim Houston complained about repeated delays in getting hearings underway, and the commission’s unresponsive treatment of victims’ family members. A white-shoe Halifax law firm, Patterson Law, took the unusual step of issuing a public rebuke of the commission over its vague and unconventional procedures.
I feel severely let down … I fought so hard for this public inquiry so another husband and father would not have to go through this
lawyers quoting a victim's husband, Nick Beaton
“Our clients continue to watch for signs that the public inquiry will proceed as it should, but feel greatly disappointed that, a week before commencement, there is no assurance that it will be anything other than the review that our clients marched to oppose in the summer of 2020,” wrote lawyers Sandra McCulloch and Robert Pineo. “In the words of (Nick) Beaton (whose wife was murdered), ‘I feel severely let down… I fought so hard for this public inquiry so that another husband and father would not have to go through this. The Commission is supposed to ask the hard questions and identify where things went wrong and how things need to change, but right now I just don’t see that happening.’”
True inquiries understand that the search for the truth, all the truth, is raw and uncomfortable
lawyer Gavin Giles
This week, Gavin Giles, a partner at McInnes Cooper, one of Atlantic Canada’s largest law firms, wrote a blistering letter to the Halifax Chronicle Herald, denouncing the commission’s procedures. “True inquiries focus on the who, what, when, where, why and how,” he wrote. “True inquiries understand intuitively that the search for the truth, all of the truth, is oftentimes raw and uncomfortable. True inquiries seek out information by exposing witnesses to direct and frequently aggressive forms of questioning. We are not seeing any of that in the commission’s work to date.”
At the heart of the problem seems to be the commission’s mandate that its work be “trauma-informed.” That’s a useful concept when it guides police interviews with sexual assault complainants. It’s foolhardy when applied to a factual inquiry into a mass murder covering 22 killings at 16 locations over 13 hours.
Justice MacDonald and his fellow commissioners seem to have taken the requirement to mean they should soft-pedal anything unpleasant — a plan that quickly sent the commission off the rails.
The family of murder victim Heather O’Brien responded with fury when the commission’s summary of evidence elided one particularly unpleasant fact: Data from O’Brien’s Fitbit showed that her heart continued to beat many hours after RCMP Const. Ian Fahie, who attended the aftermath of her shooting, had wrongly concluded that she was dead — and shooed away paramedics because an active shooter incident was underway.
“Const. Fahie is the lower ranking officer in this situation,” wrote Darcey Dobson, O’Brien’s daughter, on Facebook. “He has nothing to gain by lying. More likely he has a lot to lose for telling the truth.”
Commission counsel Roger Burrill explained that he glossed over the Fitbit detail because he thought people might find it “disturbing.”
Imagine that — who would have thought that an honest and competent investigation into the murder of 22 citizens might turn up anything disturbing.
Consistent with this approach, the commission refuses to mention Gabriel Wortman’s name in its documents and its own statements at public hearings. It’s as if his name has magical powers, and by its erasure, everything will be better.
Everything isn’t better. The murder of a loved one is an unspeakable life event for those left behind. Its impact never goes away.
Family members counting on the commission proceedings are not children. The commission should stop infantilizing them.
Correction: The original version of this story incorrectly said that the commission website does not include a staff list.
• Parker Donham is a retired journalist and communications advisor living in Cape Breton.
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N.S. mass shooter had a history of intimidation, violent altercations
Interviews show a pattern of verbal and physical abuse and harassment of friends, patients and employees
The man who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia in April 2020 had a history of violence in the decades before his final rampage, inflicting assaults and harassment on strangers, employees, and patients alike.
New documents released by the Mass Casualty Commission leading the public inquiry examining the killings on April 18 and 19, 2020, show Gabriel Wortman had a pattern of intimidating, beating, stalking and berating anyone who offended him.
In interviews with police after the shootings, dozens of people going as far back as a woman he dated briefly after high school in 1986 describe him in terms including "creepy," "violent," "deranged," and "obsessive."
Women who worked for him, or were patients at his denture clinic, repeatedly told investigators he made them uncomfortable, and men cited his dangerous temper and extreme rage as intimidating enough to prevent them reporting physical violence.
Denture patients were assaulted, abused
"He f--king scared the hell out of me," one former patient told police.
The man, identified only as BK, lived near the gunman's denture clinic in Dartmouth and ran into him occasionally when putting garbage in their shared dumpster. Wortman offered to fix the man's "scraggly" teeth and agreed to a monthly payment plan.
But when BK couldn't make his $50 payment in December 1999, Wortman confronted him at the dumpster, tackled him to the ground, tore the dentures out of his mouth and shoved a handful of snow into his mouth.
"He goes, 'Merry Christmas to you.' And he walked away," BK recalled.
BK didn't go back to reclaim his dentures and went out of his way to ensure he didn't cross paths with Wortman again. He moved out of the area within a month.
Former employees told police it wasn't an isolated incident.
Renée Karsten, a denturist who worked with Wortman at his Dartmouth clinic from about 2001 to 2007, said he would "snap" every once in a while. She described twice seeing him break patients' dentures in half or smash them on the floor because the patients complained about the fit.
Karsten also told police about the day Wortman stormed out of the clinic — leaving a patient in the chair — to beat a man who had been sitting on the windowsill of his building, having a smoke.
"[He] just lost it and just grabbed him," Karsten told RCMP. "Just grabbed him off the windowsill and pulled him away from the window and just beat the shit out of him."
Karsten said she tried to intervene, but Wortman yelled at her to go back inside. She said he soon came back in, washed his hands and returned to the patient in the chair.
Denture board found pattern of inappropriate conduct
Wortman's interactions with patients were the subject of an investigation by the Denturist Licensing Board of Nova Scotia. The board received at least eight complaints about Wortman between 1998 and 2020. Three of those, filed in 2004, were by women who described abusive behaviour by Wortman and in one case, sexually explicit comments during treatment.
Board registrar Maureen Hope told board chair Robert MacKean in September 2004 that when patients tried to resolve the issue of ill-fitting dentures, Wortman "goes on the defensive and situation goes from bad to worse … from what I have been told by the patients, at this point he is certainly bordering professional misconduct."
Wortman wrote to Hope in October 2004 in response to the complaints, saying the women were "fuelled by bitterness," or out for vengeance.
However, the board launched an investigation into the three complaints and a fourth filed in February 2005.
Gunman called investigation 'witch hunt'
At one point during that investigation, Wortman contacted a consulting denturist hired by the board, asking him to change his findings on the quality of Wortman's work. After the investigation, he contacted an investigator at her workplace to tell her that the whole thing was a "witch hunt."
In February 2007, Wortman signed a settlement agreement in order to avoid a formal hearing, accepting allegations of professional misconduct and one of interfering with the board's investigation.
He was suspended for a month and ordered to undergo counselling. Although he completed some counselling, the inquiry documents note he continued to "deny responsibility or wrongdoing when responding to subsequent patient complaints."
The documents show that Wortman wrote to the board to defend himself at least three more times against complaints in 2011, 2016 and 2019, each time saying the patients were either out to get him or had mental health issues.
There was no mention of any other investigations or sanctions from the board against Wortman related to complaints after 2007.
Repeated sexual harassment of multiple women
Although Wortman denied making sexual comments to the patient who filed the complaint in 2004, multiple women described sexual harassment and aggressive advances.
A woman identified only as BB in the inquiry documents said she worked as a receptionist in Wortman's clinics soon after she finished high school, but quit after less than six months because he repeatedly exposed his penis to her and demanded sexual favours.
Another woman, identified as SS, applied for a job at the Dartmouth clinic. After an initial interview in 2004, Wortman invited her for a second — at his cottage in Portapique.
She went, only to have Wortman pressure her to have drinks and stay the night in his bedroom. She refused, but went on to work at his Halifax clinic. She said they were walking through a hospital one day to see a patient when he broke the silence by making a sexual comment to her "out of the blue."
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet,
Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna
Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi
Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen
Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg
Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck.
(CBC)
"I think that in his head, he thought that he was God's gift to women and that all women should love him," SS told RCMP.
A dental sales representative who visited Wortman's clinic in 1999 said he invited her to a gathering at his cottage in Lawrencetown. The woman, identified as OO, arrived to find Wortman and another woman — his girlfriend at the time, who he immediately broke up with in front of OO.
When that woman left, OO told police the gunman turned "aggressive," and told OO he "wanted to fool around." She left and Wortman pursued her in his Jeep.
"I sped up and he was speeding up. And he tried to take me off the road. And I was like, what the hell is wrong with you?" she said
OO told police he only stopped when someone yelled at him from the street, and called her "continuously" afterward to apologize.
Others said they wanted to report the gunman's fake police car and odd behaviour — but felt too intimidated to take that step.
Incident at gunman's garage
The summer before the mass shooting, a group partied at the gunman's garage, including a neighbour in Portapique called EE in the transcripts; her daughter, who is dubbed DD; and her friend, II.
Both younger women later told police the gunman's fully marked RCMP car and uniforms scared them, and had them convinced he was either an officer or hosted parties with "dirty cops."
The gunman also brushed against II all night, she said, and at one point he grabbed her breast.
Businesspeople who interacted with Wortman said he was confrontational, condescending and would get unreasonably agitated over minor infractions.
The gunman's replica RCMP cruiser that was used in the N.S. mass
shooting was created with a decommissioned 2017 Ford Taurus. (Mass
Casualty Commission)
Allison MacDonald, a representative for Yellow Pages, said Wortman locked her out of his office in November 2019 when she arrived to a meeting two minutes late. During a followup meeting, she described him as "contentious," and said he paced around the office "huffing and puffing," and interrupted her to count down the time before his next meeting.
MacDonald said a male colleague who renewed Wortman's account in 2020 described him as "nice as pie."
In March 2020, Wortman contacted local CIBC officials about withdrawing large amounts of cash from his accounts, citing fears that the banks would close amid the pandemic. As bank officials tried to follow the protocols required for such a large withdrawal — $475,000 in total — Wortman grew increasingly agitated and irate.
After a local branch manager filed an internal complaint about Wortman, CIBC's market vice-president for Nova Scotia and P.E.I. told police that he had a half-hour conversation with Wortman. Dean Branton described the gunman as "pretty upset" and "cursing a lot."
"He wanted his money come hell or high water," Branton told RCMP. "I said OK … then we have to do it in a manner that keeps you safe. Right? And so then that's when he said, he said, 'Well you let me worry about my f--king safety, buddy.'"
Wortman was known to law enforcement
Halifax Regional Police had dozens of pages of records on Wortman owing to the numerous altercations and assaults he was involved in over the years.
One incident that did result in charges was Wortman's assault of a 15-year-old boy at the Tim Hortons near his Dartmouth clinic. Police records indicate Wortman confronted the teen in October 2001 — though it's not clear why — and a verbal disagreement escalated. The gunman punched the teen in the head and kicked him in the ribs.
The police file notes that Wortman claimed he was acting in self-defence after the teen spit on him. Wortman pleaded guilty to assault in 2002 and received a conditional discharge with probation. He was banned from possessing firearms for the duration of his probation and ordered to attend anger management and counselling.
This incident, and other Halifax Regional Police incidents where the gunman was accused of assault or uttering threats, weren't immediately available to RCMP in the early hours of the mass shooting because the two police forces used different databases.
The lone exception was just before 1 a.m. AT on April 19, 2020, when a Halifax officer forwarded a file to RCMP on a February 2020 incident where the gunman was upset Halifax police officers had parked in his clinic lot, and locked the cruiser in.
More than eight hours after the rampage began, a Halifax officer emailed a record of the rest of the incidents to RCMP, but later recalled to the commission there "wasn't anything major."
Witnesses who spoke to RCMP after the shootings detailed numerous other fights that weren't ever reported to police.
One man who did home renovations on Wortman's cottage in Portapique as a teenager in 2005 told police that Wortman was exceedingly meticulous and would turn violent when things weren't carried out to his standards.
"I don't get intimidated by very many people and that's one of the guys that came across to me, like, I got to be careful with him," said Joe Cartwright in his interview with RCMP after the shootings. "I made sure that [my boss] never ever left me alone, cause he was a f--kin', he was a scary man."
Cartwright described seeing Wortman assault a worker who walked on his grass. Wortman "laid the guy out in one hit," and knocked the worker down again when he tried to fight back. As other workers went about their business, Cartwright said the man finally got up and left.
The inquiry will hear from the gunman's former neighbour, Brenda Forbes, this week. Wortman stalked Forbes after she reported him to the RCMP for abusing his common-law spouse, Lisa Banfield.
Banfield is also expected to testify before the inquiry on Friday.
N.S. mass shooter was treated 'like an animal' by his father, family says
Gunman was abused as a child, documents say
New details describe how the gunman who killed 22 people in the Nova Scotia massacre of April 2020 was raised in a home of violence and psychological torment, growing up to continue the pattern set by a father he hated.
The Mass Casualty Commission leading the inquiry into what happened on April 18-19, 2020, when Gabriel Wortman went on a deadly rampage across the province in a mock RCMP car, released new documents Monday on the violence in Wortman's family.
Police interviews with various members of Wortman's family, as well as his common-law spouse Lisa Banfield, describe how the gunman was abused for years by his father, Paul Wortman.
"He never treated him like a little boy. He treated him like an animal," Glynn Wortman, Paul's brother, said in a police interview shortly after the massacre.
Laura Snowdon, commission counsel, said Monday that details of the gunman's upbringing were not intended to create sympathy for him, or "excuse or explain the horrific acts that he went on to commit."
"There are many people who witness or experience violence and abuse as children who do not go on to perpetrate mass casualty events," Snowdon said.
Instead, she said the topic was important when considering the broader causes and context that gave rise to the rampage.
Gabriel grew up as an only child in the Moncton, N.B., area with parents Paul and Evelyn Wortman. He has one sibling, biological brother Jeff Samuelson, who Paul and Evelyn had in 1970 in the U.S. and placed up for adoption at birth.
Samuelson eventually learned of his birth family and met his parents, and the gunman, in 2010.
According to the foundational document released on Monday, the commission has not yet interviewed members of the Wortman family through its own team, despite attempts to speak to some of them.
History of violence in Wortman family
Inquiry documents said Paul has four brothers: Neil, Glynn, Alan and Chris. The two youngest brothers, Alan and Chris, are retired RCMP members.
In his statement to the RCMP after the mass shooting, Paul said he had been raised in a violent family "[w]here there was more than screaming going on."
Alan Wortman confirmed this in an interview with police, and said their father, Stanley — the gunman's grandfather —was violent toward the three older brothers, but not their mother, himself or Chris.
In a letter to Samuelson after he learned of his birth family, Neil outlined the Wortman family history and how violence went back two generations to the gunman's great-grandfather, George Wortman.
He wrote that George was "a tyrant who brutalized his family," and his children, including Stanley, were "seriously off-centre."
"All of them, to varying extents, treated their wives and children the only way they knew how — like their father treated his family members. Abused children often become [abusive] parents," Neil said.
Paul Wortman's brothers also described several incidents of abuse against his wife Evelyn, and said Gabriel witnessed much of it. One brother said they never reported the abuse because they were all "terrified" of Paul.
Childhood incidents
The gunman's childhood, and Paul himself, were keys to understanding the entire rampage, Glynn told police, adding Gabriel was "warped."
There were various incidents that left a mark on the gunman, Banfield and others said, including one time when Paul drove his son alone down a dirt road and Gabriel was convinced his father was going to kill him.
Another time, Paul gave his son a gun and told him to shoot him.
In his interview with the RCMP, Paul said he "had a hell of a temper" and screamed a lot but "I never hit Gabriel."
Twenty-two
people died on April 18 and 19, 2020. Top row from left: Gina Goulet,
Dawn Gulenchyn, Jolene Oliver, Frank Gulenchyn, Sean McLeod, Alanna
Jenkins. Second row: John Zahl, Lisa McCully, Joey Webber, Heidi
Stevenson, Heather O'Brien and Jamie Blair. Third row from top: Kristen
Beaton, Lillian Campbell, Joanne Thomas, Peter Bond, Tom Bagley and Greg
Blair. Bottom row: Emily Tuck, Joy Bond, Corrie Ellison and Aaron Tuck.
(CBC)
Samuelson said Paul once told him a story about how when Gabriel was about two and a half, Paul decided that Gabriel didn't need his favourite blanket anymore "so he burnt the [friggin'] thing in front of him."
Banfield and Neil told police that when the gunman was younger than 10, Paul made him kill the family dog.
"What does that do to a kid?" Neil said.
During the rampage in April 2020, the gunman also shot several dogs.
Banfield has said the gunman told her he didn't feel his mother protected him from the abuse. As a result, Banfield said the gunman "had no respect for women, no respect for his father."
Gunman's violence toward father
The gunman grew up and went to the University of New Brunswick, studying psychology. That's where he met his first wife, and would go on to become a funeral director and later set up a denturist practice in the Halifax area.
On a family trip to Cuba around 2000, the gunman assaulted his father, Paul, who said Gabriel beat him until he was unconscious.
Banfield, who was also on the trip, said the fight began because Paul was denying how he'd treated the gunman as a child.
After the assault, Paul took Banfield aside and urged her to leave the gunman.
He told her, "I was a bastard to my wife, I was a bastard to my son and Gabriel's gonna do the same thing to you," Banfield recalled to police.
Threats uttered against parents
There was another incident in June 2010 when the gunman phoned Glynn and told him he was going to drive to his parents' house in New Brunswick to kill them.
Paul spoke to a Halifax Regional Police officer at the time who was investigating the allegation, and said his son had several serious weapons including pistols and long-barrelled guns, without a licence.
But Paul hadn't seen them himself in more than five years, and without more information the officer believed he couldn't get a search warrant.
When talking to police after the mass shooting, Paul said the massacre might have been avoided if "somebody had done a little bit more pushing" around the threats.
Gunman's medical history
According to medical records, the gunman was referred to psychiatrist Dr. Douglas Maynes in 2000.
The gunman saw Maynes four times. For these visits, the term listed under his chart is "narcissistic personality."
He also saw Dr. Cynthia Forbes in Fall River for hypertension in 2009 and reported a "history of alcoholism," although the notes state he planned to stop drinking that coming summer.
At that time, Forbes suggested the gunman see a psychologist to help him deal with stress "but he wasn't interested at this point."
He didn't return to Forbes until June 2018, and between that time and January 2020 he visited her seven times for treatment of "benign hypertension."
"He had a horrible upbringing from a very dysfunctional family. And, um, never sought help … and … fell through the cracks," his uncle, Chris, said.
Chris also told police he always knew the gunman was capable of killing someone, most likely his parents or Banfield, "but not to this extent."
'This could have been me'
Samuelson said when he connected with his birth family in 2010, the revelation of having a long-lost brother came as a "major bombshell" for Gabriel.
The gunman had to go through a "horrendous upbringing" alone with no role models, Samuelson said.
Chris agreed with this point, telling police he believes a lot of the animosity between the gunman and his parents stemmed from them keeping his brother a secret.
"This could have been me up there if ah, you know, if I had grew up in an environment like Gabriel did," Samuelson said.
On Monday, the inquiry is also expected to hear from a witness panel on mass shootings and masculinity, and an expert on intimate partner and family violence.
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Mass shooting inquiry to examine gunman's family violence, domestic abuse this week
Subject matter ahead will be difficult, says commission
Emily Hill, counsel for the Mass Casualty Commission leading the inquiry, said they are continuing to learn about what happened during the rampage on April 18 and 19, 2020, when 22 people were killed.
But she said it's now important to "zoom out" and consider the larger context of how and why the mass casualty took place, so that the commission can make meaningful recommendations.
"We will be hearing from experts as well as other witnesses, and sharing hundreds of documents that contain sensitive information like transcripts, complaints and reports about sexual and physical violence, as well as aggressive, controlling and harassing behaviour," Hill told reporters last week.
"Much of the content will be difficult, and will be impactful for many."
Violence in gunman's family to be discussed first
A main document and various materials on violence in the perpetrator's family will be released Monday, when an expert on intimate partner violence is also expected to testify.
This document will include statements from Wortman's family and his mental health and medical records.
The inquiry has already heard about how Wortman was physically and psychologically abused as a child by his father Paul Wortman, according to police interviews with his longtime partner Lisa Banfield and other members of the Wortman family.
On Tuesday, a document and various materials about the gunman's violence toward others will be released.
George
and Brenda Forbes tried to tell police about Gabriel Wortman's abuse of
his partner, and that he had illegal guns in his home, but say police
did not investigate. (CBC)
Also testifying Tuesday is Brenda Forbes, a former neighbour of the gunman's in Portapique, N.S., who tried to warn others of Wortman's abuse of Banfield. She has told police and the CBC about how Wortman harassed her after she made a report of the abuse to RCMP, to the point where she and her husband moved away.
Wednesday will see a document and source material released on the gunman's violence toward Banfield, his common-law spouse.
It is expected that the transcripts of the five multi-hour interviews Banfield has done with the commission over the past few months will also be released. An expert on gender-based and intimate-partner violence will also testify.
On April 18, 2020, the rampage started when the gunman attacked Banfield and threw her into his mock RCMP cruiser. She has told police she was able to escape through the partition in the car, and hid in the woods overnight.
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Banfield said there'd been at least 10 other physical assaults over the years, and the gunman was controlling about where she went.
On Thursday, there will be two roundtables on mass casualty incidents in Canada and around the world, and a discussion about psychiatric and psychological tools to prevent these events.
Banfield will testify in person for the first time before the inquiry on Friday.
Hill said that given the four police interviews and five commission interviews with Banfield, they don't expect they will need more than one day of live testimony.
Commission counsel will be the only ones to question Banfield, an approach that lawyers for many victims' families have already raised concerns about.
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Uncle says Portapique gunman had history of rage
Warning: Details in this story are distressing and deal with intimate partner violence
The uncle of the gunman responsible for the murders of 22 people in rural Nova Scotia paints a disturbing picture of the man and his family.
Chris Wortman contacted the RCMP in the days immediately following the mass killings on April 18-19, 2020. Two RCMP officers flew to B.C. from Nova Scotia to interview him.
The Mass Casualty Commission investigating the killings released a transcript Friday of that interview, which was conducted on April 28, 2020.
Wortman, who was seven years older than the gunman, said the pair spent a lot of time together growing up.
"Always kind of a strange little guy, never known to have a friend," he said of his nephew, Gabriel Wortman, in an interview with RCMP Sgt. Cory Kilborn.
"He had a difficult upbringing."
Dysfunctional upbringing
Chris Wortman, himself a retired Mountie, recalled an incident involving the gunman as a boy. He said the gunman's father, Paul, loaded a .22 gun, handed it to his son and said, "Shoot" — meaning he wanted the boy to fire at him.
Wortman said police were called for that incident.
During the interview, Wortman said his family was dysfunctional and he moved away at the age of 19.
He described his nephew as a "career criminal."
"I don't know if you have to be caught to be a career criminal, but he was too smart to get caught," he said.
Wortman told police his nephew subsidized the cost of his university studies by smuggling alcohol and tobacco into Canada from the United States, and selling the contraband on the campus of the University of New Brunswick.
He said his nephew was obsessed with acquiring material things, including amassing a large collection of motorcycles, many of which were apparently destroyed when the gunman's warehouse in Portapique, N.S., was set on fire during the massacre.
'Controlling of his partner'
Wortman said he and his wife vacationed with the gunman and his partner, Lisa Banfield, in the Dominican Republic in 2016. He said his "spider sense" told him it was best to avoid his nephew after that because of his role as a police officer.
He said he never saw the gunman in person after that vacation.
Wortman said his nephew was very controlling of Banfield and criticized her appearance, but he said he never saw or heard evidence of domestic violence.
Even so, he suspected the gunman had the ability to harm her.
"In the back of my mind, I thought that if he ever does snap, it's going to be her," he said in his statement.
Wortman told the RCMP he thought his nephew was a sociopath and an untreated alcoholic who was prone to snapping, especially when he'd been drinking.
When he first heard about the killings, Wortman said he thought his nephew was mocking him. The gunman carried out his violence while disguised as a Mountie and drove in a decommissioned police cruiser he'd adapted to look like a real one.
"I'm sure he wasn't, but that's how I felt, you know, to put on a uniform and to get in a police car with all the proper decals on it," said Wortman.
"I just felt like it's just being a kick in the nuts and 'Here, have that' type thing."
Wortman said his first reaction when he saw an image of the gunman next to the mock police car he drove was that the uniform didn't look authentic, but the car could have fooled anyone.
At one point during his rampage, Wortman exited his vehicle to remove his jacket and put on a high visibility vest. (Facebook)
He confirmed to police that he gave his nephew his Red Serge ceremonial uniform and his high brown boots to include in a display that was mounted on a wall in the gunman's cottage in Portapique — the same cottage that was destroyed in one of the fires the gunman set.
A pair of Mountie boots were recovered from a parking area in a Debert, N.S., industrial park where the gunman spent the early morning hours of April 19 before he resumed his 13-hour rampage.
Wortman said he left most of the pieces of his uniform behind when he retired from the Mounties, but he added the gunman could have stolen some pieces.
He also dismissed the speculation there might have been an accomplice, saying there is no one with the same mindset who would participate in something like this.
"I knew he was always capable of killing somebody or serious harm, but not to this extent," he said.
"I just didn't think he'd go on a rampage, you know, pulling people over and just shooting. Like, Jesus Christ! Somebody walking on the side of the road."
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N.S. Mounties facing 'big morale challenges' in year marked by trauma, criticism
Union says RCMP decision not to comment further on mass shooting 'difficult' for front-line officers
The union representing RCMP officers in Nova Scotia says its members are finding it challenging that the force has stopped releasing information about the April mass shooting, especially as they continue to struggle with the personal toll of responding to the killing of 22 people, including their colleague Const. Heidi Stevenson.
On April 18 and 19, a gunman travelled nearly 200 kilometres through rural communities shooting strangers, neighbours and acquaintances while masquerading as a Mountie.
Families of the victims are now suing the RCMP and have questioned whether the force did enough to stop the killer and warn of the danger. They've also been critical of the amount of information they've received about their loved ones' deaths. CBC News and other media organizations have gone to court to unseal search warrant documents in the case.
The last press conference about the attacks was June 4 and in recent months, the RCMP has repeatedly declined interviews about its investigation. In response to media requests, it has sent the same statement reiterating its commitment to accountability, transparency and participating in the public inquiry, which it describes as "the most appropriate and unbiased opportunity" to provide the facts about what happened.
Brian Sauvé, president of the National Police Federation, said he wouldn't second-guess the force's decision to stop releasing information, but acknowledged front-line officers are finding it hard.
"Our members want closure. Our members want ... to essentially be vindicated in their actions," said Sauvé, whose group represents approximately 1,060 RCMP officers stationed in Nova Scotia.
"I'll say that because from what I've seen, heard, read, those on the ground — and I'm not talking about command decisions, I'm talking about those on the ground who've responded to this incident — acted and worked in an extremely heroic manner with the resources available to them.
"For membership not to hear the RCMP support, that is challenging to them. And to wait for an inquiry to have their day and their say is difficult."
RCMP
Supt. Darren Campbell shows a map tracking the gunman's movements
during the rampage on April 18 and 19 during an April 24 press
conference. Part of the RCMP’s justification for not providing
additional comments about the mass shooting has been their ongoing
investigation into where the shooter’s guns came from and whether he
acted alone. (CBC)
Members not allowed to speak with media
The mass casualty commission has started its work and a final report is expected in November 2022.
Meanwhile, the police investigation — which includes looking at where the shooter obtained his weapons and whether he had help — continues. Two weeks ago, the RCMP announced three people, including the gunman's spouse, her brother and brother-in-law, face a charge related to allegedly providing the gunman with ammunition. The Mounties have not answered questions or provided any information beyond a press release.
Individuals members of the RCMP are not permitted to speak to the media and could face disciplinary actions by doing so. Several officers declined to speak to CBC about their experiences in recent months, with some citing the possible repercussions.
Gilles Blinn, who retired from the RCMP in New Brunswick in 2018, said he's frequently in touch with former colleagues in Nova Scotia who are struggling with criticism of their actions during the mass shooting and who are frustrated that they can't defend themselves.
"They're far removed from all the decisions that are made at headquarters in Halifax and headquarters in Ottawa. They have no say in what's going on ... it's like they're gagged," Blinn said.
"They feel like they're not supported at the top. And any manager knows this, that if your people aren't happy under you, you have bad morale…. I think the morale is very low in Nova Scotia currently due to the fact that no one is speaking out on their behalf."
Two
RCMP officers observe a moment of silence to honour Const. Heidi
Stevenson and the other 21 victims of the mass killings at a checkpoint
on Portapique Road in Portapique, N.S., on Friday, April 24, 2020. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
Blinn spent 31 years with the RCMP, including eight on the staff organization that preceded the union. For many years, the former staff sergeant originally from Digby County answered media calls. He'd like to see the RCMP provide more information that could clear up questions about how officers responded to one of the country's worst mass killings in modern history.
"You don't want to hamper your investigation. You don't want to hamper your upcoming coroner's inquest or anything else that's going on. And you have to be very diplomatic into what you're going to say. But there are things that I believe that they could say to satisfy all parties involved," he said.
Blinn's son was one of the officers who responded in Portapique on April 18, though he stressed he couldn't speak to his son's experience and didn't know exactly what happened that night or the following morning.
During
his time as an RCMP staff sergeant, Gilles Blinn conducted media
interviews on behalf of the force. He retired in 2018 after 31 years. (Submitted by Gilles Blinn)
But many of the people he knows are also grappling with the horror of what unfolded, Blinn said. Overall, he said Mounties don't feel supported by their leadership or the public.
"I know of some that turn to liquor. I know of some that were so traumatized that they've retired," he said.
"The effects don't happen right away, for some members it'll take years.... The trauma of seeing all this death and destruction and the agony of the victims' families, which is what never goes away. You know, seeing their loved ones pick up the pieces after someone's been killed. And trust me, I've been there many times, so you never forget it."
Police block the highway in Debert, N.S., on Sunday, April 19, 2020. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
'I'm seeing burnout'
The RCMP offered employees the option of taking leave in the wake of the shootings. The force said some members took time off but would not disclose how many as it involves private health information.
Some employees are performing modified duties and others are on different types of leave, Cpl. Lisa Croteau said in an email. The RCMP employs about 1,450 people in the province, though not all are members of the union.
CBC has confirmed some officers remain off work, in part, because they're dealing with the psychological impact of responding.
Sauvé said across the board, members have been hurting alongside their communities in a year that has been particularly challenging for policing. He said COVID-19 has meant fewer officers are being trained to fill vacancies, recruitment remains low, and the union is starting collective bargaining after nearly four years without a raise.
On top of that, protests against policing and police brutality in the U.S. and Canada have prompted widespread criticism of the profession.
The fact that officers have taken time to deal with trauma is positive, the union president said, as it signals an understanding that it's OK to admit to needing help.
"We don't have to, you know, suck it up and soldier on any longer.... the RCMP, as well as Canadians, are starting to realize that trauma affects everybody differently and recovery from traumatic events can take longer for some than it can for others," said Sauvé.
"They had to respond to the incident. They've had to deal with the aftermath and the investigations of that incident, at the same time grieving the loss of one of their colleagues as well as some of their friends."
Children
sign a Canadian flag at an impromptu memorial in front of the RCMP
detachment on April 20, 2020, in Enfield, N.S. It was the home
detachment of slain RCMP constable Heidi Stevenson, who was one of 22
people killed during Sunday's shooting rampage. (Tim Krochak/Getty Images)
The union said close to 100 officers travelled to Nova Scotia to help investigate the shootings and backfill officers who took time off in the months since the tragedy.
But even still, he said the force is facing "big morale challenges" exacerbated by COVID-19 and staffing stretched to the limit. Sauvé said many officers have been denied vacation time due to operational requirements and have been working "day in and day out."
"I'm seeing burnout. I am worried about it," said Sauvé.
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RCMP Cpl. Al Boulianne has been found not guilty on two counts of sexual exploitation while in a position of trust.
Court of Queen's Bench Justice George Rideout handed down the decision on Tuesday afternoon in the Moncton, N.B., courtroom.
The complainant, who was 15 years old at the time of the alleged incidents in 2004, cannot be identified because of a publication ban.
She looked shocked as the verdict was read and looked straight ahead.
At the same time, Boulianne cried and his wife rushed over to embrace him. As the couple left court, Boulianne told reporters that he was happy the ordeal was over.
"It was over two years of hell for my family, myself, my church and everybody so we're so happy now that it's all over. We're happy," he said. "Thank you very much. Now we're gonna have a nice Christmas."
Boulianne, who headed the Codiac detachment's traffic division in the Moncton area, has been suspended with pay since the allegations surfaced in 2007.
Earlier in the trial, Boulianne told the court the girl was the one who made sexual advances and that he had spurned them.
In rendering his decision, Rideout said the two sides offered contradictory stories, and in the end he could not find any evidence to corroborate the complainant's side. The Crown prosecutor has 30 days to decide on whether to appeal the decision.
Boulianne now faces an internal RCMP investigation into his conduct.
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Subject: Fwd: Does Allan Caroll or anyone else recall what went down
between the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers and I in 2018???
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<Marco.Mendicino@parl.gc.ca>, "Mark.Blakely"
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 05:41:45 -0300
Subject: Does Allan Caroll or anyone else recall what went down
between the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers and I in 2018???
To: adam@adamrodgers.ca, lori.ward@justice.gc.ca, "Brenda.Lucki"
<Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Frank.McKenna" <Frank.McKenna@td.com>
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Commander Testifies (by Video)
401 views
May 26, 2022
Adam Rodgers
549 subscribers
The Mass Casualty Proceedings continued today from Truro, with
testimony from Staff Sgt. Al Carroll, who was the District Commander
for Colchester County at the time of the shootings. Outside of the
facility where the proceedings were taking place, family members and
supporters were protesting the Commission’s decision-making on witness
accommodation requests for RCMP supervisors. This was day two of the
boycott of proceedings by many of the family participants. Some were
protesting outside of the proceedings venue, calling for changes to
the Commission procedures to allow more fulsome participation (and
specifically cross-examination) by participants and their lawyers.
Staff Sgt. Carroll, along with two other staff sergeants (none of whom
had direct experience with violence or exposure to scenes of violence
during the events of the mass casualty) have been given permission to
testify by video, with limits on cross-examination. Those protesting
are justified in their criticisms of the Commission’s approach.
Today’s testimony was a good demonstration of why the accommodation
requests need not have been granted. Staff Sgt. Carroll testified for
3 ½ hours in the morning, then another hour in the afternoon, with no
unscheduled breaks being requested by him, and he displayed no obvious
signs of discomfort, nor certainly trauma. He displayed little emotion
of any kind, or much energy, in his answers. The National Police
Federation has requested accommodations previously for lower ranking
officers. These had been rejected, and the officers thereafter also
testified with no obvious signs of discomfort or trauma. All of this
serves to undermine the credibility of both the NPF and the
Commission.
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David Amos
Go Figure
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Allan Carroll <allan.carrollatrcmp-
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:14:09 -0400
> Subject: Re: Trust that Murray Segal's appointment to whitewash the
> Rehteah Parsons matter did not surprise me after the meail I sent this
> weekend (AOL)
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333atgmaildotcom>
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Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 20:12:43 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Fwd Does anyone recall what went down
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 17:10:51 -0300
Subject: Fwd Does anyone recall what went down between the lawyers
Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers and I in 2018???
To: bgrimes@lsnl.ca, jherman@flsc.ca, johnh@cba.org, john@iilace.org,
secretary@lsz.co.zw, fwilson@flsc.ca, luke.rheinberger@lst.org.au,
rsteinmann@lawsocietynamibia.
marie-christine.fiset@
hc@hklawsoc.org.hk, marie-claude.bibeau@parl.gc.ca
Premier@ontario.ca, "Candice.Bergen" <Candice.Bergen@parl.gc.ca>,
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Suspended lawyer keeping public up-to-date on Mass Casualty proceedings
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Getting dirty palm oil out of Canadian dairy requires federal action
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has a mandate that talks about fighting climate change, stopping
biodiversity loss and building resilience, but there is clearly some
internal resistance to change.
---------- Original message ----------
From: Tilly Pillay <tpillay@nsbs.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 16:57:54 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: After reading the news this weekend about
Nova Scotia LIEbranos I did the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers
a favour told their assistants I would be publishing these emails etc
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
I am out of the office on vacation until November 8. If your matter is
urgent, please contact my assistant, Anne Broughm, at
abroughm@nsbs.org or 902 422 1491. Thank you.
Tilly
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From: Kennedy.Stewart@parl.gc.ca
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 16:57:55 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: After reading the news this weekend about
Nova Scotia LIEbranos I did the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers
a favour told their assistants I would be publishing these emails etc
To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Many thanks for your message. Your concerns are important to me. If
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From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <Premier@ontario.ca>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 16:57:51 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: After reading the news this weekend about
Nova Scotia LIEbranos I did the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers
a favour told their assistants I would be publishing these emails etc
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Thank you for your email. Your thoughts, comments and input are greatly valued.
You can be assured that all emails and letters are carefully read,
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---------- Original message ----------
From: Birgitta Jonsdottir <birgitta@this.is>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:11:44 -0800
Subject: e-mail overload Re: Fwd: After reading the news this weekend
about Nova Scotia LIEbranos I did the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam
Rodgers a favour told their assistants I would be publishing these
emails etc
To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Thank you for writing to me. I get so many emails that it is
impossible for me to even read them all. If you have an urgent matter
to discuss. Please put Priority in the subject. Please refrain from
sending email to multitude of email addresses you might have for me.
Only send one email with priority in the subject. It means I will read
it and will do my very best to reply asap :)
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 12:57:43 -0400
Subject: After reading the news this weekend about Nova Scotia
LIEbranos I did the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers a favour
told their assistants I would be publishing these emails etc
To: "Dominic.Cardy" <Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>, "kris.austin"
<kris.austin@gnb.ca>, "David.Coon" <David.Coon@gnb.ca>, "Mitton, Megan
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Monday, 5 November 2018
After reading the news this weekend about Nova Scotia LIEbranos I did
the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers a favour told their
assistants I would be publishing these emails etc
Tilly Pillay is not in her office this week and things went as far as
they always do whenever I call or email her very questionable Law
Society Here hoping Adam Rodgers finally acts with some semblance of
Integrity. However after all this time I am not betting on it.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 18:22:05 -0400
Subject: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 Did you order Harper and
the NDP to ignore me as well???
To: Liberal / Assistance <nbd_cna@liberal.ca>, cmunroe@glgmlaw.com, pm
<pm@pm.gc.ca>, "justin.trudeau.a1" <justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>
<mcu@justice.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
How about Dizzy Lizzy May and the Bloc?
On 1/6/16, Cmunroe (Liberal / Assistance) <nbd_cna@liberal.ca> wrote:
> RealChange.ca | DuVraiChangement.ca
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Cmunroe, Jan 6, 14:28
>
> Hello all,
>
> I would ask that you please do not respond to this e-mail (in the event that
> you were inclined to do so.)
>
> Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig Munroe
> (Party Legal and Constitutional Advisor)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 11:09 AM
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> Subject: Re: Attn Dr. John Gillis Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 Trust
> that I called and tried to reason with a lot of Liberals begore I am before
> the court again on Monday Jan 11th
>
> On 1/6/16, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Co-Chair, Aboriginal Peoples’ Commission (Female) Caitlin Tolley
>> Co-Chair, Aboriginal Peoples’ Commission (Male) Kevin Seesequasis
>> President, National Women’s Liberal Commission Carlene Variyan
>> President, Young Liberals of Canada Justin Kaiser
>> Co-Chair, Senior Liberals’ Commission (French) Anne Adams
>> Co-Chair, Senior Liberals’ Commission (English) Kenneth D. Halliday
>> Chair, Council of Presidents Veena Bhullar
>> Chief Financial Officer Chuck Rifici
>> Chief Revenue Officer Stephen Bronfman
>> CEO, Federal Liberal Agency of Canada Mike Eizenga
>> National Campaign Co-Chair Katie Telford
>> Constitutional and Legal Adviser (English) Craig Munroe
>> Constitutional and Legal Adviser (French) Elise Bartlett
>>
>> Craig T. Munroe, Partner
>> Email: cmunroe@glgmlaw.com
>> Phone: (604) 891-1176
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:32:00 -0400
>> Subject: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 the CBC, the RCMP, their
>> new boss Justin Trudeau and his Ministers of Justice and Defence etc
>> cannot deny their knowledge of Paragraphs 81, 82, 83, 84, and 85 now
>> CORRECT G$?
>> To: Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca, "carolyn.bennett"
>> <carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, Doug@dougeyolfson.ca,
>> doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca, fpcity@freepress.mb.ca,
>> w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca, "Paul.Lynch" <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>
>> "Marianne.Ryan" <Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>> <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca,
>> "john.green" <john.green@gnb.ca>, chiefape <chiefape@gmail.com>
>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> <gopublic@cbc.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, radical
>> <radical@radicalpress.com>, newsonline <newsonline@bbc.co.uk>,
>> newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, nmoore <nmoore@bellmedia.ca>,
>> andre <andre@jafaust.com>
>>
>> http://davidraymondamos3.
>> html
>>
>> David Raymond Amos Versus The Crown T-1557-15
>>
>> 81. The Plaintiff states that matters of harassment that the police
>> refuse to investigate would have entered the realm of ridiculous in
>> 2012 if the reasons behind the suicides of teenagers did not become
>> well known by the corporate media. In the summer of 2012 a new member
>> of the FPS who as a former member of the EPS had inspired a lawsuit
>> for beating a client in Edmonton called the Plaintiff and accused him
>> of something he could not do even if he wanted to while he was arguing
>> many lawyers byway of emails about a matter concerning cyber stalking
>> that was before the SCC. The member of the FPF accused the Plaintiff
>> of calling the boss of Bullying Canada thirty times. At that time his
>> MagicJack account had been hacked and although he could receive
>> incoming calls, the Plaintiff could not call out to anyone. The
>> Plaintiff freely sent the FPF his telephone logs sourced from
>> MagicJack after his account restored without the Crown having to issue
>> a warrant to see his telephone records. He asked the FPF and the RCMP
>> where did the records of his phone calls to and from the FPF and the
>> RCMP go if his account had not been hacked. The police never
>> responded. Years later a Troll sent Dean Roger Ray a message through
>> YouTube providing info about the Plaintiff’s MagicJack account with
>> the correct password. Dean Roger Ray promptly posted two videos in
>> YouTube clearly displaying the blatant violation of privacy likely to
>> protect himself from the crime. The Plaintiff quickly pointed out the
>> videos to the RCMP and they refused to investigate as usual. At about
>> the same point in time the Plaintiff noticed that the CBC had
>> published a record of a access to information requests. On the list of
>> requests he saw his name along with several employees of CBC and the
>> boss of Bullying Canada. The Plaintiff called the CBC to make
>> inquiries about what he saw published on the Internet. CBC told him it
>> was none of his business and advised him if he thought his rights had
>> been offended to file a complaint. It appears the Plaintiff that
>> employees of CBC like other questionable Crown Corporations such as
>> the RCMP rely on their attorneys far too much to defend them from
>> litigation they invite from citizens they purportedly serve. The
>> employees of CBC named within the aforementioned and the CBC Legal
>> Dept. are very familiar with the Plaintiff and of the Crown barring
>> him from legislative properties while he running for public office.
>>
>> 82. The Plaintiff states that any politician or police officer should
>> have seen enough of Barry Winter’s WordPress blog by June 22, 2015
>> particularly after the very unnecessary demise of two men in Alberta
>> because of the incompetence of the EPS. Barry Winters was blogging
>> about the EPS using battering ram in order to execute a warrant for a
>> 250 dollar bylaw offence at the same time Professor Kris Wells
>> revealed in a televised interview that the EPS member who was killed
>> was the one investigating the cyber harassment of him. It was obvious
>> why the police and politicians ignored all the death threats, sexual
>> harassment, cyberbullying and hate speech of a proud Zionist who
>> claimed to be a former CF officer who now working for the Department
>> of National Defence (DND). It is well known that no politician in
>> Canada is allowed to sit in Parliament as a member of the major
>> parties unless they support Israel. Since 2002 the Plaintiff made it
>> well known that he does not support Israeli actions and was against
>> the American plan to make war on Iraq. On Aril 1, 2003 within two
>> weeks of the beginning of the War on Iraq, the US Secret Service
>> threatened to practice extraordinary rendition because false
>> allegations of a Presidential threat were made against him by an
>> American court. However, the Americans and the Crown cannot deny that
>> what he said in two courts on April 1, 2003 because he published the
>> recordings of what was truly said as soon as he got the court tapes.
>> The RCMP knows those words can still be heard on the Internet today.
>> In 2009, the Plaintiff began to complain of Barry Winters about
>> something far more important to Canada as nation because of Winters’
>> bragging of being one of 24 CF officers who assisted the Americans in
>> the planning the War on Iraq in 2002. In the Plaintiff’s humble
>> opinion the mandate of the DND is Defence not Attack. He is not so
>> naive to think that such plans of war do not occur but if Barry
>> Winters was in fact one of the CF officers who did so then he broke
>> his oath to the Crown the instant he bragged of it in his blog. If
>> Winters was never an officer in the CF then he broke the law by
>> impersonating an officer. The Plaintiff downloaded the emails of the
>> Privy Council about Wikileaks. The bragging of Barry Winters should
>> have been investigated in 2009 before CBC reported that documents
>> released by WikiLeaks supported his information about Canadian
>> involvement in the War on Iraq.
>>
>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>
>> January 13, 2015
>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>
>> December 8, 2014
>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>
>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>
>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>
>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>> campaign of 2006.
>>
>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>
>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>
>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>
>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>> essential for the security and tranquility of the developed world. An
>> ISIS “caliphate,” in the Middle East, no matter how small, is a clear
>> and present danger to the entire world. This “occupied state,”
>> or“failed state” will prosecute an unending Islamic inspired war of
>> terror against not only the “western world,” but Arab states
>> “moderate” or not, as well. The security, safety, and tranquility of
>> Canada and Canadians are just at risk now with the emergence of an
>> ISIS“caliphate” no matter how large or small, as it was with the
>> Taliban and Al Quaeda “marriage” in Afghanistan.
>>
>> One of the everlasting “legacies” of the “Trudeau the Elder’s dynasty
>> was Canada and successive Liberal governments cowering behind the
>> amerkan’s nuclear and conventional military shield, at the same time
>> denigrating, insulting them, opposing them, and at the same time
>> self-aggrandizing ourselves as “peace keepers,” and progenitors of
>> “world peace.” Canada failed. The United States of Amerka, NATO, the
>> G7 and or G20 will no longer permit that sort of sanctimonious
>> behavior from Canada or its government any longer. And Prime Minister
>> Stephen Harper, Foreign Minister John Baird , and Cabinet are fully
>> cognizant of that reality. Even if some editorial boards, and pundits
>> are not.
>>
>> Justin, Trudeau “the younger” is reprising the time “honoured” liberal
>> mantra, and tradition of expecting the amerkans or the rest of the
>> world to do “the heavy lifting.” Justin Trudeau and his “butt buddy”
>> David Amos are telling Canadians that we can guarantee our security
>> and safety by expecting other nations to fight for us. That Canada can
>> and should attempt to guarantee Canadians safety by providing
>> “humanitarian aid” somewhere, and call a sitting US president a “war
>> criminal.” This morning Australia announced they too, were sending
>> tactical aircraft to eliminate the menace of an ISIS “caliphate.”
>>
>> In one sense Prime Minister Harper is every bit the scoundrel Trudeau
>> “the elder” and Jean ‘the crook” Chretien was. Just As Trudeau, and
>> successive Liberal governments delighted in diminishing,
>> marginalizing, under funding Canadian Forces, and sending Canadian
>> military men and women to die with inadequate kit and modern
>> equipment; so too is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s F-18s are
>> antiquated, poorly equipped, and ought to have been replaced five
>> years ago. But alas, there won’t be single RCAF fighter jock that
>> won’t go, or won’t want to go, to make Canada safe or safer.
>>
>> My Grandfather served this country. My father served this country. My
>> Uncle served this country. And I have served this country. Justin
>> Trudeau has not served Canada in any way. Thomas Mulcair has not
>> served this country in any way. Liberals and so called social
>> democrats haven’t served this country in any way. David Amos, and
>> other drooling fools have not served this great nation in any way. Yet
>> these fools are more than prepared to ensure their, our safety to
>> other nations, and then criticize them for doing so.
>>
>> Canada must again, now, “do our bit” to guarantee our own security,
>> and tranquility, but also that of the world. Canada has never before
>> shirked its responsibility to its citizens and that of the world.
>>
>> Prime Minister Harper will not permit this country to do so now
>>
>> From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca
>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400
>> Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and
>> the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still
>> alive
>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> This is to confirm that the Minister of National Defence has received
>> your email and it will be reviewed in due course. Please do not reply
>> to this message: it is an automatic acknowledgement.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:55:30 -0300
>> Subject: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the
>> War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive
>> To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, Public.Affairs@socom.mil,
>> Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc.
>> william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, media@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, information@forces.gc.ca,
>> milner@unb.ca, charters@unb.ca, lwindsor@unb.ca,
>> sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, birgir <birgir@althingi.is>, smari
>> <smari@immi.is>, greg.weston@cbc.ca, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
>> susan@blueskystrategygroup.com
>> eugene@blueskystrategygroup.
>> Cc: "Edith. Cody-Rice" <Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>, "terry.seguin"
>> <terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, acampbell <acampbell@ctv.ca>, whistleblower
>> <whistleblower@ctv.ca>
>>
>> I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David
>> Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's
>> Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on
>> CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To
>> be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested
>> that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise
>> if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else
>> about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact that your
>> old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English
>> never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is
>> interesting though
>>
>> http://www.
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/
>> launch.html
>>
>> Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read
>> this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes pubished about
>> Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad
>> Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me.
>>
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>
>> The Governor General, the PMO and the PCO offices know that I am not a
>> shy political animal
>>
>> Veritas Vincit
>> David Raymond Amos
>> 902 800 0369
>>
>> Enjoy Mr Weston
>> http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/
>> ikileaks.html
>>
>> "But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military
>> brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he
>> says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping
>> to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command,
>> including a Canadian general.
>>
>> That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff,
>> who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000
>> U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was
>> also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped
>> prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait."
>>
>> http://baconfat53.blogspot.
>>
>> "I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there
>> being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends"
>> demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American
>> "veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying
>> into the US policy.
>>
>> At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my
>> colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning
>> in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would
>> report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation. There was
>> never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there
>> were deployed WMD.
>>
>> Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and
>> invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were
>> concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation
>> (and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned
>> about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at
>> that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil
>> authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy.
>>
>> There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to
>> its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary
>> to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that
>> folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated
>> upon. "What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions
>> are to met before US troop can redeploy? Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>> and the PMO were even at the very preliminary planning stages wary of
>> Canadian involvement in an Iraq operation....History would prove them
>> correct. The political pressure being applied on the PMO from the
>> George W Bush administration was onerous
>>
>> American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian
>> military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian
>> naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations
>> in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan
>> thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi
>> operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian
>> lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which
>> ....not necessarily in that order. "
>>
>> You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John
>> Adams? of the CSE within the DND?
>>
>> http://www.socom.mil/
>>
>>
>> 84. The Plaintiff states that the RCMP is well aware that he went to
>> western Canada in 2104 at the invitation of a fellow Maritimer in
>> order to assist in his attempt to investigate the murders of many
>> people in Northern BC. The Plaintiff has good reasons to doubt his
>> fellow Maritimer’s motives. The fact that he did not tell the
>> Plaintiff until he had arrived in BC that he had invited a Neo Nazi he
>> knew the Plaintiff strongly disliked to the same protest that he was
>> staging in front of the court house in Prince George on August 21,
>> 2014. The Plaintiff was looking forward to meeting Lonnie Landrud so
>> he ignored the Neo Nazi. Several months after their one and only
>> meeting, Lonnie Landrud contacted the Plaintiff and asked him to
>> publish a statement of his on the Internet and to forward it to anyone
>> he wished. The Plaintiff obliged Landrud and did an investigation of
>> his own as well. He has informed the RCMP of his opinion of their
>> actions and has done nothing further except monitor the criminal
>> proceedings the Crown has placed against the Neo Nazi in BC and save
>> his videos and webpages and that of his associates. The words the
>> Plaintiff stated in public in Prince George BC on August 21, 2014 were
>> recorded by the Neo Nazi and published on the Internet and the RCMP
>> knows the Plaintiff stands by every word. For the public record the
>> Plaintiff truly believes what Lonnie Landrud told him despite the fact
>> that he does not trust his Neo Nazi associates. Therefore the
>> Plaintiff had no ethical dilemma whatsoever in publishing the
>> statement Lonnie Landrud mailed to him in a sincere effort to assist
>> Lonnie Landrud’s pursuit of justice. The Crown is well aware that
>> Plaintiff’s former lawyer, Barry Bachrach once had a leader of the
>> American Indian Movement for a client and that is why he ran against
>> the former Minister of Indian Affairs for his seat in the 39th
>> Parliament.
>>
>> 85. The Plaintiff states that while he was out west he visited
>> Edmonton AB several times and met many people. He visited the home of
>> Barry Winters and all his favourite haunts in the hope of meeting in
>> person the evil person who had been sexually harassing and threatening
>> to kill him and his children for many years. The Crown cannot deny
>> that Winters invited him many times. On June 13, 2015 Barry Winters
>> admitted the EPS warned him the Plaintiff was looking for him.
>>
>> On 12/21/15, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Rabson, Mia" <Mia.Rabson@freepress.mb.ca>
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:45:36 +0000
>>> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Wab Kinew
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> I will be out of the office until Monday, January 4.
>>> If you need immediate assistance please contact our city desk at 613
>>> 697 7292 or fpcity@freepress.mb.ca.
>>> Happy Holidays!
>>>
>>> Mia Rabson
>>> Parliamentary Bureau Chief
>>> Winnipeg Free Press
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Sarra R. Deane" <s.deane@uwinnipeg.ca>
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:10:12 +0000
>>> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Wab Kinew
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> I will be out of the office until Thursday, Nov. 12th. I will
>>> respond to emails upon my return. Miigwech and all the best.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:45:29 -0400
>>> Subject: Fwd: Attn Wab Kinew
>>> To: mia.rabson@freepress.mb.ca, Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca,
>>> "carolyn.bennett" <carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, Doug@dougeyolfson.ca,
>>> doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca
>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> http://www.winnipegfreepress.
>>>
>>> Peacemaker
>>> Group pushes for Truth and Reconciliation chairman to get Nobel Prize
>>>
>>> By: Mia Rabson
>>> Posted: 12/19/2015 3:00 AM | Last Modified: 12/19/2015 6:12 AM
>>>
>>> " Murray Sinclair already has an impressive resumé.
>>>
>>> He's the first aboriginal judge appointed to the bench in Manitoba,
>>> co-commissioner of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry and chairman of the
>>> Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
>>>
>>> But if a group of Canadians has its way, he will get one of the
>>> highest honours in the world to add to the list: Nobel Peace Prize
>>> recipient.
>>>
>>> "He and Phil Fontaine should share a Nobel Peace Prize," said Wab
>>> Kinew, associate vice-president for indigenous relations at the
>>> University of Winnipeg.
>>>
>>> Kinew said a group of people in Winnipeg, Toronto and Ottawa are
>>> collaborating to nominate the two men, who they believe are jointly
>>> responsible for giving back hope to Canada's indigenous people that
>>> hasn't existed in a long time.
>>>
>>> "They made it into something that is peace-building and
>>> nation-building," Kinew said. "It has really transformed our country."
>>>
>>> Mia Rabson, Ottawa Bureau Chief
>>> 613-369–4824
>>>
>>> Paul
>>> Samyn, Editor
>>> 204–697–7295
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:05:01 -0400
>>> Subject: Attn Wab Kinew
>>> To: w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca, "Paul.Lynch"
>>> <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>
>>> <Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> https://baconfatreport.
>>> -to-know-anything-about-
>>>
>>> http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/about/
>>> Vice-President, Indigenous Affairs
>>>
>>> Wab Kinew
>>> phone: 204.789.9931
>>> email: w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca
>>> Biography/Publications
>>>
>>> Executive Assistant
>>>
>>> Sarra Deane
>>> phone: 204.988.7121
>>> email: s.deane@uwinnipeg.ca
>>>
>>
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Navy vet and wife believed to be among victims of Nova Scotia mass shooting that left at least 22 dead
A former Albuquerque couple appears to be among the victims of a mass shooting in a rural Nova Scotia community that has left at least 22 dead
A former Albuquerque couple appears to be among the victims of a mass
shooting in a rural Nova Scotia community that has left at least 22
dead.
The home belonging to John Zahl and his wife, Joanne Thomas, was found burned following a rampage over the weekend in the town of Portapique, according to The Associated Press. Officials said the suspect, identified as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, was shot and later died on Sunday. It was Canada’s worst mass shooting, and authorities are still searching for a motive.
Zahl retired from FedEx, and Thomas was a former University of New Mexico employee.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham noted the deaths in a Twitter post. She said her prayers go out to the couple’s family and loved ones.
“Sadly, we’ve learned that two former New Mexicans are presumed victims of the recent Nova Scotia mass shooting,” Lujan Grisham said late Tuesday. “John Zahl and Elizabeth Joanne Thomas raised their family in Albuquerque before retiring to Joanne’s native Canada.”
Zahl’s daughter, Jennifer Zahl Bruland, told the Journal that Canadian authorities have not yet identified her father and stepmother as victims in the rampage, but she was expecting them to do so Wednesday.
“We’re just starting to process this,” she said. “The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been very good to us. They’ve been staying in touch and keeping us informed.”
Justin Zahl, the couple’s grandson, frantically called police after he saw that his grandparents’ two-story log cabin had been set on fire, with their two cars in the driveway, according to AP. The news organization reported that Zahl had been told his grandparents’ bodies were likely in the ruins.
Bruland said her father and stepmother had lived in Albuquerque for 30 years and moved to Nova Scotia in 2017.
“They were very dear people and very involved in Albuquerque,” Gene Valdes, a friend of the couple, told the Journal. He said the couple visited him and his wife, Dorian Dodson, in Tucson in February and kept in constant contact.
“We were best friends for 50 years,” Valdes said. He said he knew something was wrong when the couple’s grandson, Justin, called Valdes and his wife after the rampage asking them if they heard from his grandparents.
“He called us at 4 a.m. Sunday and off and on after that,” Valdes said.
Valdes said Zahl, 69, and Thomas, 58, should have been on a cruise at the time of the shooting, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced a change in plans.
He said the two had fallen in love with Nova Scotia, calling it “idyllic,” despite the harsh winters.
“But they were talking about selling their house and moving back to the U.S.,” he said.
Valdes and Zahl served in the U.S. Navy together. They were Russian translators.
He said Zahl and Thomas married in 1985 and settled in Albuquerque, where Zahl worked for FedEx and later worked part time for Albuquerque Public Schools. He also coached soccer.
Thomas, a Canadian citizen, worked at Eye Associates, the University of New Mexico and Health Care Service Corp. before she retired.
“They were very active in a local Presbyterian church where John was an elder,” Valdes said. Even though they joined a church in Nova Scotia, he said they still watched a livestream of church services in Albuquerque.
“I was talking to them on Easter,” his daughter said. “They were watching the livestream then, and had to get off the phone. They had a Zoom meeting with some of their friends.”
She called her father and stepmother “genuine people.”
“If they asked you how you were, they meant it,” Bruland said. “They cared about their friends in New Mexico.”
She said the family hopes people will remember them for “their kindness, laughter and joy,” instead of the tragedy.
She said her father had four children, another daughter, Sarah Zahl, and sons Andrew and Daniel. The couple raised two grandsons, Riley, who lives in Albuquerque, and Justin, who lives in Nova Scotia.
'She was just like an angel': Winnipeg-born woman believed to be victim of Nova Scotia shooting
Elizabeth Joanne Thomas and her husband, John Joseph Zahl, are presumed dead
A woman who grew up in Winnipeg is believed to be one of the 22 victims killed in this weekend's shooting in rural Nova Scotia, one of the worst mass killings in Canadian history.
Elizabeth Joanne Thomas, 58, who went by Joanne or Jo, grew up in Winnipeg's Windsor Park neighbourhood. Thomas and her husband, John Joseph Zahl, 69, are presumed dead after their home near Portapique was found burned to the ground on Sunday morning.
Police say a gunman went on a rampage that began late Saturday in the small community of Portapique and ended 12 hours later in Enfield, N.S., nearly 100 kilometres south. The gunman was fatally shot by police officers.
The couple lived next door to the man police say was responsible for the killings.
The couple's family hope they will remembered for more than how they died.
"They lived a good life, they were devoted to each other, almost 35 years of marriage, they loved their children fiercely and afforded them as many opportunities to travel and experience a wonderful life," said Joanne's sister Lori Thomas from her home in Brandon. Man.
Lori last spoke to her sister on Friday, when the pair chatted about cooking and gardening and Joanne feeding the wildlife that would visit their acreage in Nova Scotia.
"This is extraordinarily difficult," she said.
"We are so overwhelmed and so shocked. It has not hit me exactly as I know it will later on, but I have to be strong," said Lori, who cares for their youngest sibling, who has special needs.
The couple had moved to the Portapique area in 2017 to spend their retirement, family says. (Go Fund Me/Gena Lawson)
The couple had several children — four from John's previous marriage and two adopted sons, who were their grandkids that they raised as their own.
John Zahl's daughter and Joannne's step-daughter, Jennifer Zahl Bruland, lives in Minnesota, and heard news of the shooting on Sunday.
"I immediately tried to contact them and didn't get responses, and they were always very good at getting back to me so I started getting worried Sunday evening," Jennifer said.
While her parents' remains have not been found, Jennifer said the family is slowly coming to terms with what's happened.
"I've seen pictures, I know that my parents' house is gone," she said, from her home in St. Cloud, Minn.
"I know they are missing and presumed dead.
"It's devastating, it's nothing I ever expected to happen."
Jennifer wants her parents to be remembered for the lives they lived, not what happened to them.
"They were loved by family and friends from Manitoba, from New Mexico, from Minnesota, from Nova Scotia, but we are stunned, we're struggling because this is a senseless act and it's affected so many families," she said.
"I'd like people to remember my dad and Joanne for the kind acts that they did and the laughter and the joy that they shared with so many people."
'They were kind people'
Joanne met her husband while living in North Dakota to attend college, where she was studying speech pathology.
"They met and they fell in love almost immediately, it was like a whirlwind romance," said Jennifer. "They knew they were right for each other, they were very much in love."
From there they moved to Albuquerque, N.M., where John worked for FedEx, and Joanne later worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Joanne and John met while they were both living in North Dakota. (Go Fund Me/Gena Lawson)
The couple retired in 2017 and moved to Nova Scotia.
The couple embraced the community there and Joanne volunteered with the homeless, did fundraising projects for their church, and helped victims of human trafficking.
"They were kind people, they were generous people," Jennifer said.
Despite having spent several years in the U.S., Joanne was a proud Canadian, and never gave up her citizenship, Jennifer said.
"My dad fell in love with Canada," she said.
Jennifer remembers visits to Winnipeg with her parents and her stepmother always spoke of her the city she grew up in fondly.
"She always had a Jeanne's cake for her birthday and whenever my dad would pass through Winnipeg … he would pick up a Jeanne's cake for her," she said.
"Jeanne's cakes are a big deal for the family."
'Your life does change in a heartbeat'
Joanne's son, Justin Zahl, said while he spent much of his time growing up in the U.S., he recalls summer trips to Manitoba, where the family would spend time with Thomas's parents .
"She loved it," Justin said.
"She obviously had lots of friends there."
He said he is still waiting for more information to emerge from investigators and is trying to take things one day at a time and reflects on his mother's generous spirit.
"She was just like an angel," he said.
"She would help anyone, it doesn't matter … even the person, the killer, she would've helped him. He lived right next door."
Joanne's friend, Rhonda MacLellan, also said if Joanne had heard gunshots, she would have gone to try to help.
"They're not the kind of people who would say, 'That's none of our business, let's not be concerned,'" said MacLellan. "If somebody needed help, they would part the Red Sea."
'Get-things-done' woman
MacLellan said Joanne was a friend who always gave her comic relief and was someone with whom she could share her heart. She said she was playful, exuberant and a "get-things-done woman."
She said they actually first met at a funeral. When MacLellan arrived, she took the last empty seat in the hall — right next to Joanne.
When she sat down, Joanne joked that MacLellan probably lucked into a good parking spot as well. When MacLellan said that she had, Joanne joked again, "I knew you lived a charmed life."
A picture of Rhonda MacLellan, taken by Joanne Thomas, on the back deck
of Thomas and Zahl's home in Portapique, N.S. (Rhonda
MacLellan/Facebook)
"It was just such a lovely line: 'I knew you lived a charmed life," MacLellan told CBC.
"I just thought, 'I like this woman.' And I was just so happy that she liked me too and we just sort of hit it off."
MacLellan wrote a tribute to her friend and said she's been overwhelmed by the kind responses.
MacLellan said Joanne and her husband "didn't know a soul" when they moved to the area, but had quickly started to become rooted in the community.
"She right away got in and served and helped. If she would have been here 20 years, she would have known everybody in the town," MacLellan said.
The couple were supposed to be away on a European cruise, but had to cancel due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Physical distancing guidelines have made it hard for the family to grieve, Lori said. She says under normal circumstances she'd want to be out east to support her nephews and be together as a family.
"To feed people, to hug people, to organize, to comfort, and my ability right now to do so is very limited," Lori said.
"This is not just a community tragedy or a familial tragedy, this has become a national tragedy, human contact is so important."
"Love your family and hold them close, because your life does change in a heartbeat," she said.
With files from Bryce Hoye, Emma Davie
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Neighbour tried to sell his Portapique home to killer before last April’s shootings
A victim of last April's shootings tried to sell his home in Portapique to the killer before last April’s bloodbath that left 22 people dead.
Aaron Tuck — who was killed in the massacre along with his wife, Jolene Oliver, and their 17-year-old daughter, Emily Tuck — “wanted to sell his house in Portapique and move back to Cape Breton and wanted $48,000 to $58,000 for it,” according to court documents made public by a judge Friday.
The information police used to get search warrants in the case indicate one of Aaron Tuck’s friends since he was 13 years old told investigators that the killer — whom SaltWire is not naming — offered Tuck $18,000 for the small dilapidated house with a view of the ocean.
The friend told police he saw Aaron Tuck “get into an argument” over the lowball offer with the man who would end up killing him.
“Aaron Tuck had issues with a buddy (of the killer) who was operating his four-wheeler on Aaron’s property and Aaron Tuck ended up getting in a fight with the (killer’s) buddy,” said Tuck’s friend.
“A day after the fight both (the killer) and his buddy apologized to Aaron Tuck.”
Aaron Tuck, right, his daughter Emily Tuck, left, and partner Jolene
Oliver, were all victims of the mass shooting on the weekend of April
18-19, 2020. - FacebookTuck’s friend “said that Aaron Tuck was bothered by the fact that (the killer) had a RCMP police car and he told Aaron to report it to Crimestoppers and Aaron Tuck said that he could not due to (the killer) making a threat towards Aaron Tuck,” said the documents used to obtain warrants.
The friend knew the killer “had a holster for a gun in the back of the RCMP police car,” said the documents.
“At the end of 2019, Aaron Tuck told (the friend) that you could not tell the difference between (the killer’s) RCMP police car and a real one,” said the documents, which note Tuck did not help the killer with any of the decals on the vehicle.
The killings started in Portapique, where the Dartmouth denturist had a cottage, on April 18 after he snapped, according to his spouse. The murderer shot multiple people and set homes on fire.
Dressed in a police uniform and driving a fake police car, he evaded RCMP and killed four more people in Wentworth before heading toward Halifax, killing several more along the way, including at least two women in their cars. Mounties said they shot him dead April 19 at the Enfield Big Stop. In all, he killed 22 people.
'Tied her hands together'
The killings started after the Dartmouth denturist’s common-law partner, Lisa Banfield, got upset while they were having drinks while Facetiming friends in Houlton, Maine to celebrate their 19th anniversary. The comment came after the killer and Banfield told their friends they were planning a commitment ceremony for their 20th anniversary.
“She had said ‘Don’t do it,’ and I got upset that she said that so I said I’m leaving and (the killer) got pissed off,” about that, his spouse told police.
The killer “got mad and accused Lisa of ruining their anniversary,” Banfield told police.
She tried to apologize, but when that didn’t work, she went to bed naked. She pretended to be asleep before the killer pulled the blankets off her.
He got Banfield out of the bed “and had her on the floor and was pulling her hair and kicking her,” Banfield told police.
She got up and he “kicked her again and she fell to the floor.”
The killer “tied her hands together with what she thought was a belt off of a bathrobe,” she said.
Items of condolence overflow on the steps and yard in front of the old Portapique Church on July 23, 2020. - Eric Wynne He was pouring gas around their Portapique cottage “and said that he could not forget his gun,” she said.
He grabbed a Glock handgun with a laser sight on it and warned her not to slip on the gasoline. The killer torched the place as they left.
“Lisa Banfield said that she was being forcibly escorted back to (the killer’s nearby) warehouse and she was screaming and trying to kick (him) and trying to dig her heels into the ground.”
The killer “told her that they were going to Dartmouth (where he had an office on Portland Street with an apartment above) and she believed that he would burn that place too.”
He told her they were going to another place that is redacted from the documents, with plans to kill the occupants and burn that as well.“At one point during the walk to the warehouse, Lisa did manage to get away from (the killer) but tripped and fell and (he) found her easily and called her an idiot and told her that he had a flashlight.”
'It didn't have to be this way'
The killer took Banfield’s shoes “and threw them in opposite directions and said, ‘now you can’t run bitch,’” she told police.
At the nearby warehouse where he stored motorcycles and other gear, he poured gas on a truck before trying to put handcuffs on Banfield.
“Lisa Banfield told (the killer) that it didn’t have to be this way
and (he) said that it was too late and put a handcuff on one hand on
Lisa and she dropped to the floor when he tried to put on the other
handcuff.”
He made Banfield stand up by pulling her hair, “and she heard a shot on one side of her and then another on the other side. Lisa covered her face with her hands and thought that (her common-law spouse) was going to shoot her.”
Instead, he forced her into the back of one of his fake police cars and locked her inside.
When he walked away to get more guns, she managed to crawl out of the car and escape.
She ran and heard shots, hiding briefly in a truck before moving on, believing the shots “seemed to be getting closer.”
Hid in the roots of a tree
“She left that hiding spot and eventually came across a tree with an exposed root system and hid inside the cavity,” Banfield told police.
She stayed hidden all night, only coming out in the morning.
“Lisa Banfield has had guilty feelings and wonders if (her partner) went to the locations that Lisa might attend to get help and killed the people as he went along. Lisa questions whether people would have died if she didn’t run away.”
In the days before the killings, her partner “was very caught up with COVID-19 and was talking about death and said that he knew he was going to die,” Banfield told police.
While he’d “seemed like the perfect guy at first,” the killer had become controlling over time, she told police.
'Never liked kids'
“Lisa is close with her family and (the killer) never understood this and would get upset. (He) never liked kids and Lisa would keep nieces away from him. (He) always said things about hurting her family so she was afraid to leave (him).”
During a trip to Cuba years earlier, the killer had beaten up his father. The father “spoke to Lisa later that evening and said ‘I was a bastard to my wife. I was a bastard to my son and you need to leave (him) now.’”
The killer “had nothing to do with his parents” or his uncle (an RCMP officer) and his wife.
The killer “cut family off after there was a dispute over ownership of a house” with his uncle.
Banfield “recalled a domestic incident where (her spouse) was choking her outside and (his uncle) came up and said, ‘You are just like your father.’ Lisa said that (her partner) had also choked her while in bed a few times and it was the little things that would set him off, not the big things.”
When asked about the people he killed in Portapique, “Banfield said that she never really bothered with the neighbours, Greg and Jamie Blair and it was (her partner) that made connections with people, mostly when they were drinking.”
Banfield said she “did not trust Lisa McCully (another neighbour her spouse killed) and didn’t know if she and (her partner) did anything.”
She also told police the killer “had cheated on her many times.”
Banfield told police Alanna Jenkins and Sean McLeod — two corrections officers who he killed on Hunter Road just north of Wentworth — “were an odd couple,” and that she believed her spouse got his handcuffs and a prison guard uniform from McLeod.
The couple would come over for drinks and the killer “seemed to like them both and there were never any arguments. Lisa Banfield said that (the killer) always wanted to collect uniforms.”
'Humiliate her at times'
Banfield worked at his denture clinic, waxing and polishing dentures,
taking payments and cleaning the offices. The killer “would humiliate
her at times in front of a patient and would say that he needed to
(make) her feel like a piece of shit,” she told police.
Her partner didn’t care for the police, she said. He “would say the police think they are smart and say that it would be easy to kill them.”
She knew “he was different but never thought he would do what he did.”
She said the killer would tell a friend in Maine what kind of gun he wanted and the friend would get it for him. The killer had “told her how he would wrap firearms and place them in the tonneau cover in order to transport them back to Canada from the United States.”
Pistols on his nightstand
She told police he kept pistols on his nightstand in the bedroom “and talked a lot about guns.”
A friend of the killer’s from Toronto, Kevin Von Bargen, told police
that the Dartmouth denturist talked to him after the pandemic began “and
was convinced that the world economy was going to collapse and he
contacted CIBC to redeem his GICs and cash them out.”
They were “pretty strong” friends and had confided in each other in the past, Von Bargen told police, noting the killer “did not talk about having a grudge against anyone.”
The killer had been married about 20 years ago and “the separation was amicable,” he told police, noting the killer “was culpable for some infidelity in that relationship.”
Von Bargan told police the killer “had a deal in the works with respect to his property in Dartmouth and was planning on retiring outright.”
The killer “talked about his parents being odd and very self-centred and how he learned about 10 years ago that he had a brother who had been put up for adoption in the U.S. (The killer) had tried hard to establish a relationship with his brother but his brother did not reciprocate.”
Obsessions switched
In the last year of his life, the killer’s “switched from being obsessed with vintage Honda motorcycles to police cars and was buying the cars off a government surplus website,” Von Bargan told police.
The killer told him “he had the one (with decals on it) for show and said that it looked cool in the shop and had $12,000-$15,000 invested in it.”
Von Bargen also told police the killer “had a truck driver that would do runs between Toronto and Halifax and (the Dartmouth denturist) would give the driver teeth and the driver didn’t charge courier fees because of this.”
Uniforms could have come from cousin's closet
A cousin who had been an RCMP officer told police the killer had visited him in 2011-12 before he retired from the force “and was at his house for a week and would have had access to his police uniforms as they were hanging in the closet.”
The same cousin told police he gave the killer his red serge uniform
and high brown boots and that they were on display at his cottage.
The former cop told police he knew his cousin “was capable of killing someone, maybe his parents or Lisa, but he never thought that (he) would go on a rampage.”
FBI agent Raymond Goergen told Canadian investigators that the killer used a friend’s address in Houlton, Maine, to receive shipments of boxes. The friend opened one up once to see it was a light bar.
The killer’s friend, whose name is redacted, told Goergen two of his Glock pistols were missing and the Dartmouth denturist had access to his house.
The friend — who would shoot for target practice with the killer at a quarry — said he hadn’t checked the gun boxes in four or five years. But the FBI agent “said that the boxes were not dusty and were sitting on the floor in a closet.”
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The killer’s property in Dartmouth in 2019. The teeth were removed from the building days after the mass shootings, and the building was subsequently razed. — Google Maps
She was out with friends, having drinks at The Thirsty Duck on Spring Garden Road.
“I happened to be talking about my teeth… I wanted to get them laminated,” said the woman, who is referred to in Mass Casualty Commission documents as QQ. QQ gave a statement to RCMP Cst. Jennifer Tichonchuck in February of 2021, but the events in question happened in the fall of 2000.
“And I never knew he was even in this world,” QQ continued, “but he was standing I guess behind me or he was listening to me. And he interjected by saying, ‘I wouldn’t do that if I were you.'”
Twenty years later, the man killed 22 people in a murderous spree across Nova Scotia. The Halifax Examiner refers to him as GW.
GW, a denturist, told QQ about dental bleaching. Then he asked her out. “And I said yes.”
About a week later, GW picked QQ up for a date, and they went shopping at Costco. “Or he did,” said QQ. “It’s like money wasn’t an option and he wanted me to know it.”
From Costco, they drove to GW’s apartment above the denturist office on Portland Street. He dropped her off in front so he could park behind the building, then walked back around to let her in. They went upstairs.
“He talked a lot about himself,” said QQ.
GW told her about his recent divorce, which he explained came about because his wife discovered he was cheating with someone who leased a room in their apartment. This corresponds with his ex-wife’s statement to police; she said the other woman had taken denturist classes with GW.
Then balding, GW showed QQ a photo of himself with a full head of hair. “And you know, I mean, he was an extremely good looking guy, you know.”
GW lit a fire in the fireplace.
“And then he had a visitor.”
“We were in the living room,” explained QQ. “And it’s one thing led to another… and you know, he made a comment because — he didn’t make it any secret that he was very well endowed. Scary, actually. Freakish. Definitely not normal.”
“I was getting bad vibes, and we were in the living room,” continued QQ. “It was around midnight, I would say. It was late. And it was winter.”
She heard someone open the back door, then kick their boots on the ground to get the snow off.
“He didn’t knock. And he, it was an RCMP officer… he just walked right in, like it was your brother.”
QQ described the man: early 30s, dark complexion, dark hair, about the same height as GW. He looked like he worked out, but he wasn’t bulky.
An RCMP forage cap. Photo: saskcollections.org
“His ears stuck out. He had big ears. I thought, ‘man, you’re going to hold up that hat real good.'”
He removed his hat. It was a “hard hat, the normal police hat,” said QQ. “We call them a forage cap,” said Tichonchuck, the investigator.
And QQ remembered a yellow stripe going up his pant leg.
GW introduced the man to QQ, but 20 years later, she couldn’t remember the name.
The man in the police uniform told GW there was a break-in in the area, but that didn’t sound right to QQ. “I thought, hmmm, this is not your area, you’re RCMP. You’re not near where you’re supposed to be.”
The man in the police uniform soon left, and then GW stood up, put on a black parka, and grabbed a slingshot.
“I thought he was joking,” said QQ. “He said, ‘no, I gotta go outside for a minute.’… What he did was he put a marble through an apartment building; I guess he felt someone was making too much noise… and he put a marble through their living room window.”
The date got stranger still. GW would leave the room occasionally — QQ thought he was sneaking drinks, and as the night went on GW was getting increasingly drunk.
She was hungry, but his refrigerator was empty, and he wouldn’t take her to get food.
He told her he had paid his way through university by smuggling cigarettes and alcohol across the border, and then he had been an embalmer. He explained that there were “two ways how to drain bodies.” QQ described the two ways to Tichonchuck. “I’m like, oh my gosh, this is gross.”
Getting still more drunk, GW told QQ that when he was working in the denturist shop, he would masturbate several times a day. “Like why are you telling me this?”
In the morning, she didn’t see GW so she decided to “skim my behind out of there,” but then he re-appeared. “He was jumping around and he was nude. I was grossed out. This is [inaudible] would up. And he was proud of it. And I’m thinking this is getting crazier and crazier.”
That was the only time QQ went to GW’s apartment. She thinks she went on “a couple of dates” with him, but within a week or two, she decided she needed to end it.
“He became very possessive, real quick,” she explained. “Trying to lock me down.”
She decided to take him back to the “crime scene” — The Thirsty Duck. “And I brought someone that would come on to him” — her cousin Kim.
“And he fell for it.”
Kim and QQ went to The Thirsty Duck washroom, and Kim told her that GW was grabbing her ass. “So, I was like, Bingo!” said QQ.
The women returned to the table and started chatting with GW, and QQ told him it wasn’t working out. “And oh my good lord,” said QQ, “he had a temper.”
GW told QQ she was making the biggest mistake of her life.
“Anyhow, that was fairly early in the night,” she said. “And then it was a band playing, and then he had some girl.”
Two decades later, after the mass murders and all the publicity, it occurred to QQ that the “girl” GW was with that night was Lisa Banfield. “It’s like the same hairdo, same colouring, and you know, it appeared to be her.” Multiple witnesses have said that Lisa Banfield met GW in a bar, but the name of the bar doesn’t appear in any of the documents released publicly so far.
“So I got out of there, and that was it,” said QQ.
QQ was direct in her criticism of the RCMP. When she learned who the killer was, “I thought, there’s no way on God’s green earth he got away with this and no one in the RCMP knew about it.”
At the beginning of the interview, Tichonchuck mentioned that QQ had provided a statement soon after the murders. That previous statement has not yet been made public by the Mass Casualty Commission.
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N.S. mass killer had an affair with neighbour he later murdered
Gabriel Wortman had an affair with a Portapique neighbour who would years later become one of his 22 victims, then after it ended, he both helped and harassed Lisa McCully.
“Lisa Delong, a friend of Lisa McCully, told the RCMP that Ms. McCully and the perpetrator were engaged in an ongoing ‘affair’ in 2017,” say documents tabled Tuesday at the Mass Casualty Commission.
“Ms. McCully told her that she was experiencing a lot of stress because of the situation with the perpetrator, whom she felt was pursuing a relationship with her.”
In the May 2020 interview, Delong told the RCMP the situation caused McCully a lot of stress.
“She was in love with him and was very confused because … she had been of the understanding that he was not in a relationship, but it appeared to her then that … there was a partner that was in the picture,” Delong said.
She told investigators Wortman, who had a common-law wife in Lisa Banfield, might have “misrepresented” his relationship status to McCully.
'She just saw the good in people'
McCully never expressed a fear of Wortman, Delong said. “She just saw the good in people.”
Wortman would give her alcohol and small gifts, the schoolteacher told her friend.
McCully was “having lots of difficulty herself financially,” according to Delong.
He “would make all these offers that he would absorb her debt, or he would pay off her bills and then just nothing (seemed) to materialize,” said her friend. “And, she was very confused about … what was going on.”
When McCully’s brother died in September of 2017, the Dartmouth denturist came over to console her and helped her through the funeral process, according to Kelly Tattrie, who dated McCully for a couple of months in 2018.
'Things crossed the line'
After that, Tattrie told RCMP in a May 2020 interview, “things crossed the line.”
McCully told him she and Wortman hadn’t been in a relationship, but that they “slept together … a couple of times.”
Tattrie asked McCully if Wortman had a partner, because he’d seen another woman at his place in Portapique. “And she said, ‘Yes, but she doesn’t know about it and I’d prefer if she doesn’t know about that.’”
She “felt she was taken advantage of because of her emotional state,” Tattrie said.
'It should never have happened'
McCully was embarrassed about getting involved with Wortman, he said.
“It should never have happened,” she told Tattrie. “I was just in a
really bad place.”
When he and McCully dated, Wortman would sometimes follow them in a car as they went for walks on the beach, watching them, which Tattrie deemed odd. “I actually told Lisa at the time, ‘That guy’s creeping me out.’ And she said, ‘He’s fine,’ and whatnot. I think he still had quite an interest in Lisa, at that time. But she did not want anything to continue with him.”
McCully told her friend Melanie Maloney that when her children were little, she would go over to talk with Wortman over a glass of wine once her kids had gone to sleep. “It was nice to have another adult to talk to,” Maloney told the RCMP
“When she was having trouble with her finances he had offered to buy her house and let her live in it for free.”
'That doesn't sound right'
Maloney warned the single mother against entering into such a scheme. “I just remember saying to her … that doesn’t sound right.”
When McCully — who bought her Portapique home from Wortman’s uncle, Glynn, a decade before the mass shootings — told her pal about sleeping with the Dartmouth denturist, her friend thought “it seemed so predatory … (and) opportunistic … I just remember being worried for her.”
On the flip side, John Kierstead, McCully’s father, told the RCMP in May of 2020 that Wortman had helped with negotiations when his daughter bought her place fully furnished. Wortman was “most cordial” at the time, said Kierstead, who suspected the denturist had romantic designs on his daughter.
But McCully knew Wortman had a “live-in girlfriend,” Kierstead said. “She did not want to get caught in this triangle of (jealousy).”
McCully “just let that relationship go. She remained friends with him, but she realized she was out of her league with him,” said her father.
“He was just a little bit too … much for her,” Kierstead said.
Two or three years before Wortman killed 22 people, including McCully, in April 2022, he helped her fix a backed-up septic tank. “Dug it up, replaced the drainage, (and it) didn’t cost her a penny,” Kierstead said. “Which was very good of him.”
'Someone creeping around her house'
In the year before the killings, McCully told her friend Chad MacPherson that she’d called the Mounties to report “someone creeping around her house.”
At the time, she’d suspected a former partner. But his alibi checked out, leaving McCully “always a little bit uneasy” about her situation, according to MacPherson, who spoke to investigators the day after his friend was killed.
Just before the murders, McCully had told MacPherson’s wife, who taught at the same school, that “she was concerned that the neighbour across the road was being a little too weird. Walking up the road, pausing in front of her house, looking in the windows, that sort of thing.”
McCully dated Portapique resident Leon Joudrey for a short time in the summer of 2019. Joudrey told police after the mass murders that Wortman’s behaviour towards him changed after McCully told the denturist they could no longer be friends.
'You trying to poke the bear?'
“I said, ‘What did you do that for?’” Joudrey told investigators.
“You trying to poke the bear?”
Joudrey wasn’t happy about that turn of events as it meant a job he’d been hoping to do cutting trees down for Wortman fell through. “He was acting like an idiot, so I walked away.”
About three weeks before the killings, Joudrey encountered Wortman in front of McCully’s house. “He gave me a big grin when I walked by,” Joudrey said.
Joudrey said he backtracked to ask Wortman what his problem was, but when he got close, the denturist drove away in one of his surplus police cars, which did not have decals on it. “I didn’t have the chance to say anything. He took off.”
Soon after, Joudrey heard Wortman gunning his car up and down Portapique Beach Road. “I thought to myself, ‘What a fucking asshole.’”
'Very uncomfortable'
McCully told her friend Miriam Louise Cleogh, who bought a cottage in Portapique a decade ago, that she was “very uncomfortable” because she knew Wortman had weapons.
“Do I think she ever knew what type of weapons? I doubt it.”
McCully told Cleogh that it concerned her because her children spent time with Wortman, and that she had asked him not to talk about guns with her kids.
McCully told her friend Ruth Janes that she'd had a brief fling with Wortman, but he “had way too many problems for her to date.”
She also told Janes that Wortman “wasn’t a good role model for her kids and he had a lot of problems and she knew he had girlfriends.”
A month before the mass murders, the perpetrator went to Pictou to kill someone else
On March 19, 2020, the Washtub Laundromat in Pictou burned down. Photo: Brian Cameron
March 19, 2020, was an eventful night in Pictou.
“Fire lit up the night sky on the Pictou waterfront,” reported Adam MacInnis for the New Glasgow News.
The fire started at the Washtub Laundromat on Caladh Avenue, and spread to the adjacent enviro-depot. Firefighters feared that the fire would further spread to the nearby Coleraine Plaza seniors building, and so had that building evacuated.
The fire was dramatic and worrying enough, but also that night, the man who a month later killed 22 people in a murderous spree showed up at Acropole Pizza on Church Street. The Halifax Examiner refers to the man as GW.
GW was in Pictou looking for Kip MacKenzie. GW wanted to kill Kip.
The RCMP only found out about this in late April, after the murders, because Kip, who was on a police undertaking, hadn’t been seen for a few days. Cst. Ryan Murnaghan went to the pizza shop to look for him. A worker at the pizza place, Donald MacMillan, said oh, by the way, that killer was here back in March.
Murnaghan went to talk with Kimo Poirier, who lived next door to the burned out laundromat. Kimo “is well-known in Pictou,” reported Kevin Adshade for Saltwire, but not so well-known that Murnaghan knew his last name.
Kimo had seen Kip just the day before, said Murnaghan in an email to Sergeant Jonathan Kenny. Kimo said that Kip had told him GW was in town looking to kill him.
Both MacMillan and Kimo had the same basic story: six or seven years previously, Kip inherited some property in Fredericton, New Brunswick, but GW felt the property was rightly his. GW confronted Kip about it, and Kip, who was very drunk, signed some paperwork that gave GW title to the property. Some time after that, Kip, realizing what had happened, “knocked out” GW. GW had come to Pictou for revenge, by killing Kip.
Kip MacKenzie gave a statement to the RCMP in May 2020; the Mass Casualty Commission has that statement, but isn’t yet making it public or available for review by reporters, pending a privacy review.
Without MacKenzie’s statement, it’s impossible to know for sure, but the property in question may have once belonged to Tom Evans, the lawyer friend of GW’s who died in 2009 and willed GW much of his estate.
“It’s not too far of a stretch,” wrote Murnaghan to Kenny, “knowing what we know about [GW], that if he was in town that day, he could have burnt down the laundry mat to flush Kip out, put heat on him or thought he was living there. But I will leave that up to MCU [Major Crime Unit].”
In fact, though, another man had already been arrested for the March 19 fire, and for a series of other fires in Pictou on other days. On April 15, a 55-year-old man from New Brunswick was arrested and given an August 2020 court date for the fires. New reports and RCMP releases about the arrest don’t name the man, and there are no further new reports about him.
Did GW leave Hunter Road to look for Kip MacKenzie?
Alanna Jenkins and Sean McLeod. Photo: Facebook
Another document that the Mass Casualty Commission has and is not yet making public — but which has been reviewed by the Halifax Examiner — reveals that a relative of Sean McLeod told a third party that McLeod was in Portapique on April 18, 2020, about seven hours before the murders began.
According to this person, McLeod “was chopping wood for him [GW]” and when Lisa Banfield and GW went for a drive at about 3pm, McLeod went home to Hunter Road.
The murders in Portapique began at 10pm, and GW spent the night behind a welding shop in the Debert Industrial Park.
When GW left his hiding spot, he went to Hunter Road, about 50 kilometres north, and killed Sean McLeod, his partner Alana Jenkins, and neighbour Tom Bagley.
The Mass Casualty Commission “foundational document” about the Hunter Road murders details that GW’s fake police car was captured on video passing a residence somewhat south of the McLeod/Jenkins house at 6:29am, heading north. The same video captured the car heading south at 9:23am.
Neighbours to McLeod and Jenkins reported hearing gunshots at various times, but as is typical with accounts from multiple witnesses, the accounts don’t completely line up. That said, there seem to be two general time periods when gunshots were heard — at around just after 6:30am, and then again at just before 9am.
Tom Bagley left for his walk at around 8:50am. The first report of smoke from the scene was about 9am.
So far as is known, GW arrived at the house at about 6:35am and immediately shot McLeod, Jenkins, and their two dogs. He then did — what? — for two and a half hours before setting the house on fire, killing retired firefighter Tom Bagley, who arrived at the scene to help, and then left the scene.
This is speculation, but consider an alternative theory: GW killed McLeod and Jenkins, then left — possibly to travel north on Hunter Road out to Highway 6 to Pictou, to look for Kip MacKenzie. Then, failing to find MacKenzie, he reversed course and returned to Hunter Road. At the speed limit, the round trip would take about two hours. That would give him enough time to make it back to the McLeod/Jenkins residence, set it on fire, kill Bagley, then travel south past the Hunter Road video camera at 9:23am.
Again, that’s speculation. But it would be good to know if the RCMP canvassed video cameras along Highway 6 or in Pictou.
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‘A greedy, overbearing, little bastard’: the life of a terrible man, from university ‘asshole’ to mass murderer
This article includes detailed descriptions of violence.
Yesterday, we recounted the multi-generational violence in the Wortman family. The man the Halifax Examiner refers to as GW was of the fourth generation of that family, and as an adult murdered 22 people across Nova Scotia on April 18/19, 2020.
GW’s upbringing “turned him into a greedy, overbearing, little bastard,” said his uncle Glynn Wortman.
Today, we detail GW’s violence towards and manipulation of others throughout his life before the murders.
Leaving home
Bridges House. Photo: University of New Brunswick archives
After a tumultuous childhood in the Moncton area, in 1986 GW moved to Fredericton to attend the University of New Brunswick.
A man referred to as BM was a roommate of GW at Bridges House, a dorm, for about four months. In an police interview a few days after the murders, BM referred to GW as a “bizarre individual” who would stay out all night, brag about his sexual exploits, and get into protracted arguments with other students.
GW went out of his way to antagonize people by, for example, pissing on the common bathroom floor.
Two of BM’s toes are webbed together, and GW threatened to cut them apart when BM was asleep. “I’ll never forget he said that,” said BM.
Once, a group of students went to Zellers, and GW was shoplifting, “he’s like stuffing stuff in his jacket, he was just a bizarre guy.”
For his behaviour, his dormmates gave GW the “Chuck Cosby award,” a secret award for being the asshole of the year.
BM said GW hung out with a “jerk bag lawyer” — BM couldn’t remember the lawyer’s name, but it was likely Tom Evans, with whom GW had a long friendship.
“And I think he used to pay him for services rendered, if you want to put it that way,” said BM. “It was weird. He always claimed he had some sort of relationship with this guy, right? And you know it was bizarre to say the least; he was dating a woman at the same time. It was like kind of a weird, twisted thing.”
GW made lots of fake IDs, which BM assumed were used to buy alcohol. Multiple witnesses have said that GW paid his way through university by smuggling alcohol and cigarettes across the U.S. border to resell in Fredericton. But GW’s father Paul, who may not be a reliable source, told investigators that he spent about $100,000 in support of GW’s university education.
Move to Nova Scotia
GW got a “Psych degree” and a “business diploma” from UNB, said GW’s ex-wife, who is referred to as FF.
FF and GW met while at university. “He was very bright,” said FF. “He’s a very, very intelligent man and he could do just about anything. Like, he could fix a car, he could do carpentry work, he could do electrical, he could do a whole bunch of things. He was really handy… he was the very opposite to me as far as being able to do stuff and the way we thought about things.”
While still students, FF saw GW’s violent side. Once they were at the student union pub, and another man said something rude to FF. “All of a sudden, the guy was on the ground, and he was saying ‘apologize to her!'” The bouncers took GW off the man.
After university, GW worked in “child and youth” for the province of New Brunswick, but he didn’t like the profession “because there wasn’t enough money in it.” GW found work at McAdam’s Funeral Home in Fredericton, and then the couple moved to Kentville, Nova Scotia so GW could get certified as an embalmer. He then found work at Walkers Funeral Home in Dartmouth.
The couple moved to an apartment above the funeral home on Prince Albert Road.
“I didn’t like it when he drank,” said FF. “He made me nervous.”
Halifax police records through this period show a number of police interactions with GW, including a missing persons report (filed by FF; GW was found), an angry interaction with a pawn shop operator (GW alleged the pawnshop was selling a boat that had been stolen from him five years previously), and an assault, on Nov. 24, 1996.
A man named Vincent McNeil said that he had been at a party where there was “free liquor” and went home, but then decided to go back to the party. En route, he walked through the funeral home parking lot and, he said, saw a man breaking the sideview mirror of a black jeep that turned out to belong to GW. McNeil yelled at the man and chased him, but GW heard the commotion and saw McNeil running, so assumed McNeil had broken the mirror.
“Vincent stated that [GW] kicked him in the left leg and punched him in the face twice, knocking him to the ground,” wrote Cst. James Henry MacVicar in the police report. GW demanded that McNeil pay for the damage, and McNeil handed over a ring and a bracelet that he said were valued at over $500.
McNeil called police the next day. MacVicar interviewed him, and then asked GW to come to the police station to give his side of the story. MacVicar sided with GW in the dispute, as he had no prior convictions. And McNeil had been drunk, after all, and “the writer feels that Vincent had fallen down on his face.”
GW made a career change.
“There wasn’t enough money in [embalming] for him,” explained FF. “He had bigger aspirations, so he decided to go into denturist.” He took classes at Nova Scotia Community College’s Akerley campus. FF supported GW financially for his three years of schooling. The couple rented an apartment at Pine and Myrtle Streets in Dartmouth.
One time, GW was drinking and FF somehow offended him — she didn’t remember the perceived offence, but he “pinned me down on the floor.” FF ran outside, yelling, and GW pulled her back inside. “I don’t remember what happened after that,” she said.
To make ends meet, the couple took in a roommate, a young woman, 19 or 20, whom GW met at denturist school. But the whole time, GW was having an affair with the younger woman. “I had zero idea, and really, I was flabbergasted. They were in my home and they lied to me so well every day that I had no clue.”
FF learned about the affair one day when she unexpectedly brought lunch to a denturist office GW was building on Almon Street, near the bus station. “I caught them kissing in the dentist chair. That didn’t go over so well.”
FF kicked the woman out of the apartment. GW apologized, but started drinking heavily, and the couple soon ended the marriage. GW bought the building on Portland Street and moved into the empty apartment above the space he made into a denturist office below.
Soon after, QQ met GW at The Thirsty Duck, and one night he brought her back to the apartment. GW may have met Lisa Banfield the very night QQ stopped dating GW. Read “She had a bad date with the future mass murderer, went back to his apartment, and an RCMP officer walked in.”
Denturist complaints
The killer’s property in Dartmouth in 2019. The teeth were removed from the building days after the mass shootings. — Google Maps
Multiple witnesses reported that GW was alternately kind and abusive towards his denturist patients. He’d extend credit to those who didn’t have insurance, but if they were late on their payments, he’d violently attack them.
Paul Wortman, GW’s father, recounted two such incidents.
“There was a guy that was not paying him, and he was in the neighbourhood,” walking by the denturist shop on Portland Street. “My son ran out early in the morning, he was in his underwear, and grabbed onto the guy, and said ‘give me your teeth.'” The man refused to take his teeth out, so GW reached into his mouth and pulled them out himself. According to Paul, GW said, “these will be in my office; when you get the money, they’re yours.”
Another time, while GW was shopping, he happened upon a man who owed him money. GW “said ‘give me your teeth,’ and the guy gave him his teeth and my son squashed them.”
At least eight of GW’s patients made complaints to the Denturist Board of Nova Scotia.
Three of the complaints came before the board at roughly the same time. The three complained of an ill-tempered denturist who refused to adjust or fix ill-fitting dentures, and one, named BO in the documents, complained that GW used “sex talk” while treating her, and asked her what colour her underwear was.
In response, GW wrote a letter to the board saying the complaints were nonsense.
“Three complaints in a few months is a real eye-opener,” wrote GW. “Some members of the public feel they should have an unfettered right to complain and to have that complaint investigated.”
“I have never acted in a dishonorable, disgraceful or unprofessional way,” he continued. “One has to see clearly that these letters of complaint have been written with one purpose in mind, vengeance. Having said that, they are also fueled by bitterness. I am in the opinion that these women all in the same age group cannot bear the fact that they are aging, coupled with the lost [sic] of teeth send them into a whirlwind.”
With regards to BO’s complaint, GW wrote that “This is clearly a person who is not well. I personally cannot imagine ever having sex talk with a 52 year old endentulous woman just the bare thought makes me ill.”
After a series of complaints, the board assigned a consulting denturist to review GW’s work. According to a March 20, 2006 letter from Maureen Hope, the registrar of the board, GW inappropriately tried to interfere with the investigator by asking the consulting denturist to change his opinion.
In the end, the board reprimanded GW, suspended him for one month, charged him $8,000, and required him to attend a seminar entitled “Dealing With Difficult People: How to Communicate with Tact and Skill.”
Portapique
The Portapique sign on Highway 2 was adorned with a NS tartan sash following the mass shooting that began there on April 18, 2020. Photo: Joan Baxter
The documents released this week by the Mass Casualty Commission show that GW continued to get in physical altercations and was involved in abusive and controlling relationships.
This continued as GW bought a cottage and then built a warehouse in Portapique.
Brenda Forbes, who is testifying today at the commission’s proceedings, detailed much of that behaviour; see “Brenda Forbes tried to warn neighbours and the RCMP about the ‘psychopath’ in Portapique years before he went on his murderous rampage. No one listened.”
As the Examiner reported in April, GW had a sexual relationship with a Portapique woman referred to as EE, who encouraged GW to have sex with “street girls.” We reported:
EE described her sexual experiences with GW.
“He’d be the little boy and I’d be the mummy and I’d be the cop,” explained EE, who would wear an RCMP uniform GW provided to her for the event. “He was one of those diaper kind of guys, so you would have to take off his diaper and you would have to clean his bum with your tongue and stuff like that instead of toilet paper, I mean it wasn’t dirty or pooping or anything like that but it was just imaginary, just kind of weird stuff.”
GW had an RCMP uniform and what EE described as “ankle shackles.” As well, he had two pairs of handcuffs — not police handcuffs, but rather the kind bought at sex shops (EE worked at a sex shop and was familiar with them).
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At one point, a woman referred to as DD came to live with EE in Portapique, and EE arranged a sexual encounter between GW and DD.
“You hear the guys taking out their nephews for their 19th birthday and the strippers and all this,” said EE. “I thought it would be nice if DD — because she always said, ‘[EE] what’s a big one like?’ and I said, ‘Well’… so anyway, I arranged it for her to have somebody who was well-endowed, right, so I put them together, she went over and spent the night with him, and I picked her up in the morning.”
“She [DD] hates him, it was awful,” admitted EE.
“He was making me drinks,” recalled DD in a separate interview with Emily Hill, an investigator with the Mass Casualty Commission. “I was sitting there drinking. I remember being nervous because, like, I don’t know this guy, and clearly we’re going to have sex in a minute… I was trying to get more drunk because I didn’t like the situation.”
DD was then in her early 20s. She had recently been divorced. She was trying to attend university, but she had no place to live, so moved in temporarily with EE.
“I was just coming out of a breakup… I was a little, for lack of a better term, fucked up in the head about it,” DD told Hill. “I was trying to do whatever to cover up the pain I was feeling.”
“There’s two times I remember being at his house and having sex with him,” DD continued. “I think the way it works is he always gives you a bath first because he had a bathtub in the bedroom… I distinctly remember him giving me a bath… from what EE had told me, that’s what he did with these girls that he brings back.”
They had sex. “That was not a pleasant experience,” said DD.
Newly released documents explain that DD is EE’s daughter.
Housing disputes
A series of property disputes appears to have added to GW’s unravelling. These will no doubt be further detailed in a document to be released by the commission next week, “The Perpetrator’s Financial Misdealings.”
One of those property disputes was with Kip MacKenzie, and apparently involved property in Fredericton that once belonged to Tom Evans. See “A month before the mass murders, the perpetrator went to Pictou to kill someone else.”
Additionally, GW got in a dispute with his father Paul because Paul had lent him money to buy property in Portapique. After Tom Evans died and GW received an inheritance, GW paid Paul back in full, but Paul’s name was still on the deed. When Paul refused to take his name off the deed, GW threatened to kill him.
However, GW tried essentially the same scheme with his uncle Glynn. Glynn, then living out west, was in declining health, and GW convinced him to buy a property in Portapique. Glynn agreed, but couldn’t finance the purchase until he sold his former home; GW therefore provided a bridge loan to complete the deal. Glynn moved to Portapique, and when his old property sold, he repaid GW. But GW’s name remained on the deed, and he refused to remove it unless Glynn paid him another $70,000.
Another uncle, Neil, intervened, and the matter ended up in court before GW reluctantly removed his name from the deed.
Glynn ultimately sold the property — to Lisa McCully.
Tomorrow: GW’s violence towards Lisa Banfield.
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Brenda Forbes tried to warn neighbours and the RCMP about the “psychopath” in Portapique years before he went on his murderous rampage. No one listened.
“Portapique forever in our hearts” at Portapique memorial community church hall, June 2020. Photo: Joan Baxter
Some people who lived in Portapique and socialized with GW, the gunman who shot and killed 22 people in Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19, 2020, recall him as a “very nice guy” who was “polite,” “cordial,” “always laughing” and “light-hearted,” if a little “flirtatious” from time to time.
Brenda Forbes is not one of them.
In an interview with the RCMP just days after the tragedy, Forbes — who goes by the nickname Boe — said she knew a “psychopath” when she saw one.
It is the same word she used to describe GW in an interview with the Halifax Examiner in May that year.
Her husband, George Forbes, believes GW was trying to snap up all the property he could in the area, and said he seemed intent on becoming the “King of Portapique.”
He said GW cultivated “minions” in the community, getting people to do odd jobs for him; he would then reward their loyalty with booze and they would all drink together.
“He was happy with that lifestyle,” according to George Forbes. “I call it the Boss Hogg type of guy, and he’s got the little yappy dogs all around.”
Brenda and George Forbes describe a man who was violent with and extremely controlling of his girlfriend, Lisa Banfield, who was too afraid to leave GW for fear of what he would do to her and her family.
This information comes from transcripts of four interviews with Brenda and George Forbes released this week by the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), which has turned its attention to GW’s violent behaviour towards others, and how he was able to elude police investigation despite a long history of violent and threatening behaviour and illicit activities involving gun smuggling from the United States.
The transcripts are from RCMP interviews with Brenda Forbes on April 22, 2020 and George Forbes on April 23 about their experience over 12 years with GW, another interview with the couple by Sergeant Colin Kuca of the RCMP Serious Crime unit in May 2020, and then an interview with the Forbes by MCC investigators Emily Hill and Paul Thompson in August 2021.
The transcripts paint a terrifying picture of a man who made Brenda, a veteran of Canada’s military, fear for her life, so much so that she and her husband left Portapique, selling their property there in 2015 at a loss of about $100,000.
First they moved to Halifax, but Brenda Forbes was still afraid she might run into GW, as his home and denturist business were in Dartmouth.
So in 2019, the Forbes moved to western Canada.
‘Warning signs’
When Brenda and George Forbes chose a plot of land in Portapique, and then designed and had a log cabin built in 2002, they thought it would be their “forever home.”
After many years in the military (40 for George, 30 for Brenda), which involved a lot of moving about the country and serving overseas, the Forbes were happy to settle in Portapique, close to Five Houses where George had had a cottage before he joined the military, and to Hilden, south of Truro, where his parents lived.
The Forbes moved into their Portapique home in the summer of 2002, and the following year met GW, who came by on a motorcycle with Lisa Banfield on the back, looking for information about the area.
George Forbes told him about a place for sale at 200 Portapique Beach Road, and for a while after GW bought and refurbished the property, the Forbes would join other neighbours at “Gabe’s” for weekend “fire pit” parties.
Portapique Beach Rd sign and RCMP car April 25, 2020. Photo: Joan Baxter
However, even then George was seeing “warning signs.”
George told the RCMP that GW was always “probing” about his work as a small arms instructor and advanced reconnaissance instructor for the military, and also asked if George could get him some ammunition.
“No I won’t,” George replied.
When George challenged GW for firing off his gun from his deck while he was drinking, pointing out that bullets could ricochet and it was a residential area, GW dismissed his concerns, saying, “Oh that’s not a big deal. We knew what we were doing.”
George told the RCMP that in 2007 or 2008, GW showed himself and Brenda several illegal weapons, including a “Russian – Eastern European type pistol,” as well as “a shotgun, a 12-guage, and a rifle,” and that none were locked up or secure.
“He pulled the gun out with the magazine still in it,” George said. There was no pistol lock, and GW kept it in a tool drawer in his shed.
When the Forbes asked him where he got the weapons, GW replied, “Oh, I have my connections.”
“We should have reported that right away,” Brenda Forbes said. But at the time, they didn’t think about it because, “we were just saying, ‘it’s Gabe.’”
George described GW as a “wheeler dealer,” a “manipulator” who did a lot of “swindling,” using cash and doing deals “under the table,” a “WIIFM” (What’s-In-It-For-Me?) person.
GW boasted to George that he had made money while a student in New Brunswick by smuggling cigarettes across the U.S. border, and that made George wonder where he was getting his illegal guns.
The Forbes also recall neighbourhood parties when, if GW didn’t feel he was getting enough attention, he would “grab” Banfield by the arm and force her to leave with him.
“She would start … you could see it in her face. She was scared to death of him,” Brenda told the MCC in August 2021.
George said GW drank “way too much,” and occasionally claimed to go “on the wagon,” for a week or a week and a half, before starting again.
All of these things suggested a “pattern,” George Forbes said, and made the Forbes decide to distance themselves from GW.
‘He beat the crap out of her’
Brenda Forbes told the RCMP that from the start she thought GW “was a little off,” and said it didn’t take long for them “to figure him out.”
And it wasn’t long after GW moved in with Lisa Banfield that he “started abusing her.” According to Brenda Forbes, GW:
… beat the crap out of her one day and she ran to my house. I told her that she needed to get help and there were places out there that she could hide from him, he wouldn’t find her. But she told me point blank she was too scared to leave because he would find her and kill her.
Brenda Forbes said GW had used his truck to block Banfield’s car in the driveway so she couldn’t get away.
Speaking to the MCC in 2021, Brenda said that if GW said “jump” Banfield would say “how high?”
“That’s how controlled she was by him. And I feel bad for her, I really do,” Brenda said.
Brenda Forbes later became friends with GW’s uncle, Glynn Wortman, who had moved to Portapique from Edmonton, persuaded to do so by his nephew who advanced the funds for the down payment on the home, and then put his own name on the deed.
She told the RCMP that in 2013, she let Glynn know that GW was cheating on Banfield, bringing “a shitload” of women and girls he picked up in a bar in Truro back to Portapique.
After Glynn told GW about this, GW “dragged” Banfield to Forbes’ house, holding Lisa by the arm, and threatened Brenda, saying, “You’re gonna regret this.”
After that, Brenda said GW would drive up to her house and stare at it for up to a half hour at a time.
“It scared the be-jesus out of me,” Brenda told the RCMP. “We both had FAC’s [weapons permits] and we both had our weapons and stuff … I don’t care, he still scared me.”
The complaint to the RCMP
And then came another incident in 2013, which Brenda Forbes recounted this way to the MCC in August 2021:
Dave Ellison and Richard Ellison and Glynn Wortman, they were out in the back part of the property that Gabriel had … And he had Lisa down on the ground choking her. And the guys, the three guys, they were trying to get Gabriel to stop. And she piped up and said, “Don’t say anything else because it’ll only get worse.” Glynn told me this. So I said, “Oh, my God.” So I … I was at work and I said, “That’s it, I’m calling the RCMP.” So I called the RCMP. I was at the cadet camp in Debert and they came down, there were two of them … And I told them what Glynn had told me. And they said, Well, would he be willing to speak to us?” And I said, “Just give me a second.” …. I called Glynn, I said, “Glynn, would you be willing to tell the RCMP what happened with Lisa and all the illegal weapons and stuff that he has?” He said, “No, because he’s already told me he’s killed somebody in the United States, and if I say anything, he’ll kill me.” And the RCMP heard every word of that.
The MCC Foundational Document on the perpetrator’s violent behaviour towards others, states that, “RCMP records confirm that Forbes contacted the RCMP on July 6, 2013. The officer who took the report, Cst. [Constable] Troy Maxwell, said that the report was not about domestic violence.”
When GW found out she had reported him to the RCMP, he again came to her house, and threatened he would “take” her out. “You’re going to be gone,” Brenda Forbes remembers him saying.
‘I’d be dead now’
In her interview with the Mass Casualty Commission, Brenda Forbes said the RCMP didn’t act on her complaint because they told her they “actually had to have proof” of the allegations about the assault on Lisa Banfield and the illegal weapons.
She explained that there was no way Banfield would come forward, and as for the weapons complaint, “What am I going to do, take pictures of it?” she said. “So basically they [the RCMP] let it go.”
During the Forbes’ May 2020 interview with the RCMP Serious Crimes unit, Sergeant Colin Kuca asked them if the police had ever followed up on Brenda Forbes’ complaint about GW’s assault on Banfield and the illegal weapons. This is part of the exchange that followed:
Brenda Forbes: Nope, not at all.
Colin Kuca: And you certainly didn’t get any call back from the police officers themselves, saying, “Hey, this is what we did.”
Brenda Forbes: No.
Colin Kuca: But what they did tell you if I understand correctly is, they provided you somewhat of a reason why they couldn’t really do anything about your suggestions that he had guns.
Brenda Forbes: Yeah, yeah.
Colin Kuca: …and they kind of suggested to you they might not be able to do much with the assault thing.
Brenda Forbes: Yeah, she’s [Banfield’s] not gonna say anything … and they actually said they were going to monitor him [GW].”
Colin Kuca: Right. OK. Whatever that means. OK. … so if I were to ask you …where Gabriel or Lisa [sic] spoken directly to by the RCMP following your complaint, do you have any idea?
Brenda Forbes: No. Not at all.
Colin Kuca: … if the RCMP had spoken to Gabriel …
Brenda Forbes [interrupting]: I’d be dead now … I would not be here … unless I had enough time to get (makes a gun noise).
‘They wouldn’t say boo’
Brenda Forbes told the RCMP that she warned everyone in Portapique about GW, but they ignored her. “He was feeding them all booze,” she said.
“So they wouldn’t say boo,” George added.
Brenda Forbes said most of them just “slammed” her, saying “that’s all garbage.”
In her interview with the MCC in 2021, Brenda Forbes said people would say to her, “No, he’s such a nice guy. He’s doing all this for us and everything. You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Brenda said she was ostracized for speaking out.
In 2014, Brenda decided she had to get out of Portapique. Her husband was absent on months-long missions in Africa, and she was alone in the house, often hiding her vehicle so that GW would not know when she was home.
Portapique memorial community church hall in June 2020. Photo: Joan Baxter
Not a ‘forever home’ after all
“So we sold our home,” Brenda told the MCC:
And that hurts me, not because we sold the house, but I should have warned the people that bought it what he [GW] was like when they came here from New Mexico. When they came, I introduced them to the good people that were there, but I did not tell them about Gabriel. And I should have because he, when I went to sell the house I made it the codicil that if he wants to buy it, no way. And that pissed him off. He wanted the house.
Forbes told the RCMP that the reason GW killed the people who bought her house, and then burned it down, was not because of them, but because she refused to sell it to him.
“He took the houses down because of people that pissed him off,” Forbes said.
“It breaks my heart.”
When the MCC asked her in 2021 what she hoped could come out of this tragedy, Brenda replied that she would like to see “more support for women that are abused.”
“Abused or in a situation they can’t get out of,” George added.
Brenda told the MCC she believes there is a need for new laws as well:
When I reported that he had weapons and all that stuff, a new law should come out somehow that if a person reports something like that, they have to go and investigate, not just say, “Oh, we can’t do that.” Like … when I said she was being beaten and stuff, “Well, she has to come here.” No, if I told you, you go check it out, that’s the way it should be.”
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https://globalnews.ca/news/6967657/shooting-domestic-violence/
She witnessed the N.S. mass shooter’s violence. She’s still struggling to be heard
Brenda Forbes, 62, wanted proof.
So the other day, Forbes balanced her iPad on her lap, set it to start recording, and called Glynn Wortman on the Messenger app from her phone.
“Hi,” Wortman can be heard saying. His voice is slightly muffled and the screen is dark, the iPad having slipped and fallen against Forbes’ body while they spoke.
“How’s it going?” she asked back.
Wortman and Forbes met in Nova Scotia around 2007, friends through cadets but tied together now by Wortman’s nephew, who killed 22 people last month in the worst mass murder in modern Canadian history.
The rampage started in Portapique, a community of about 100 people 40 kilometres west of Truro, N.S., where the gunman was — for about a decade — Forbes’ neighbour and, for a time, locked in a property dispute with his uncle Wortman.
Global News has verified the audio with Wortman, who said he witnessed his nephew abuse his partner repeatedly.
Forbes, who says she finally left the community in 2014 with her husband because of the gunman, called Wortman because she wanted proof. It felt necessary, she says, after the RCMP told Global News it had “not found a record” of Forbes reporting the gunman to them in 2013 for domestic violence and a cache of weapons.
Their response worried her.
“I don’t want people not to believe me,” she told Global News. “I tell the truth.”
Forbes worried about finding herself in a scenario where nobody else spoke up about the gunman’s history and then finding that turned back on her somehow; she imagined people saying, you’re lying.
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I ld have to say there s too much that doesn't add up with Lisa ,and
whomever else was involved in this ,cause I don't think he did it on his
own . Too much of he info doesn't add up .
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Leon Joudrey: in his own words
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'Why I didn't get killed?': Survivor of N.S. mass shooting struggles in 'year from hell'
Published Sunday, April 18, 2021 6:45PM ADT
"Why I didn't get killed that night, it's hard to deal with when all my
friends and neighbours did, and to wake up to the aftermath was just
horrific," said Leon Joudrey, who hasn't been able to live in
Portapique, N.S., since the tragedy. HALIFAX -- To say the last year has been difficult for Leon Joudrey would be an understatement.
"It's been a year, a year from hell," he said.
For two years, Joudrey called the picturesque community of Portapique, N.S., home. But these days, he can't bring himself to live there.
"It's hard going back in there because you see all the burnt foundation of one of my neighbours and the memorial signs and it's a hard thing," said Joudrey. "Your home should be your comfort and it's not comfortable."
Joudrey was home on Saturday, April 18, 2020, the night a lone gunman went on a murderous rampage that started in Portapique and ended nearly 100 kilometers away in Enfield, N.S., the following day.
The shooter's common law spouse came to Joudrey's house that Sunday looking for help.
"Why I didn't get killed that night, it's hard to deal with when all my friends and neighbours did, and to wake up to the aftermath was just horrific," he said.
"I spent time with the Blairs and the Tucks, and Frank and Dawn, they were my neighbours, and Peter and Joy, they lived down the end of the road -- and Lisa McCully of course. So yeah, basically over half the people I knew got killed."
TRAGEDY AFFECTING WHOLE COMMUNITY
The last year has been challenging for many in Portapique and the surrounding communities.
"There is fear, there is anxiety, there is distrust," said Josh Fillmore, associate pastor of the Faith Baptist Church in nearby Great Village, N.S.
"In our church and in our community there are people who are not going too far from home these days. Not doing their daily walk on the shoulder of the road out of fear. But the bigger concern is for the people who are not connected. We believe there's a lot of suffering in silence behind closed doors."
Social worker Serena Lewis says the way each person deals with grief is unique and that this tragedy requires a complex approach and long-term planning.
"I really think that this time last year the world responded to us when we were brought to our knees," said Lewis.
"Some people have told me post-causality events across the globe that we could be looking at a 20-year process of healing, so it's important that we look at all of the different services we have but do we need unique services for something like this," she said.
SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS
Tom Taggart, the councillor for the area, says the only way the community will heal is when they finally get answers about what happened.
"Until that happens, there will never be an end to this, the hurt the pain and all that kind of stuff," said Taggart.
Joudrey agrees.
"As far as the process, the inquiry goes, I think everybody would agree with me that it's taken too long and families have been suffering and they want closure, answers," said Joudrey. "We're not getting the answers, we're not getting the closure and to go through this again for another year and then see where we stand, I hope we're further ahead than we are now."
While he waits for answers, Joudrey is trying to move forward the best he can.
"I do love the outdoors and I got two dogs that love it too, so that keeps me going," he said. "I never thought I'd find myself in this position, but what you go through is 'why not me?' Why you know that's part of it. What could you did to stop it. Yeah, it just plays on your mind 24-7."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lisa-banfield-mass-casualty-commission-testify-1.6506926
Relatives of N.S. mass shooting victims say their lawyers should be allowed to question gunman's spouse
Lisa Banfield will give evidence on July 15
The spouse of the gunman in the Nova Scotia mass shooting will testify mid-July before a public inquiry, but she won't face direct questions from lawyers representing victims' families.
The Mass Casualty Commission said Thursday in a news release that due to Lisa Banfield's status as a "survivor of the perpetrator's violence" and "in light of information she has already provided," only the inquiry's lawyer will be asking her questions during her July 15 appearance.
The decision drew criticism from lawyers representing families, who said it was the latest example of restrictions on their ability to pose questions directly to witnesses on their clients' behalf.
Josh Bryson, a lawyer for the family of victims Peter and Joy Bond, says his clients are losing faith in the credibility of the inquiry.
"Cross-examination can make or break a witness's evidence. You test the evidence in a meaningful and trauma-informed way," he said in an interview Thursday.
Michael Scott, a lawyer for a firm representing 14 of the families, said in an email that his clients were "deeply discouraged" by the commissioners' decision to "deny our clients a meaningful opportunity to question Lisa Banfield."
"Our clients are not confident that commission counsel will elicit all relevant evidence from Ms. Banfield," Scott wrote.
"Today's decision has significantly undermined the legitimacy of the process and our clients' confidence in the commissioners' independence."
Banfield, on the advice of her lawyers, had initially refused to speak under oath at the hearings into the 22 killings carried out by her spouse on April 18-19, 2020. However, she changed her position after a criminal charge laid against her for supplying ammunition to the killer was referred to restorative justice.
The inquiry has also refused to allow cross-examination of Staff Sgt. Brian Rehill and Staff Sgt. Andy O'Brien, who were the first RCMP managers overseeing the response to the shootings. That decision resulted in a boycott of some proceedings by lawyers representing some of the families.
Emily Hill, senior commission counsel, says participating lawyers can submit their questions in advance and can provide followup questions to the inquiry's lawyer to ask during the single day set aside to hear Banfield. She noted that Banfield has provided five unsworn interviews as well as documents that the public will be able to view.
However, Bryson said the inquiry's interviews are unsworn testimony, adding that it is crucial to have an opportunity for family lawyers to test prior statements by asking questions to a witness under oath.
Banfield's evidence could provide further information about the killer's personal history and state of mind and may also be key to the commission's mandate to examine the role of gender-based and intimate-partner violence in the killer's actions.
The inquiry has heard she was the last person with the gunman before he went on his rampage. The killer assaulted her and confined her in a car, but she managed to escape. She fled into the woods and hid before emerging the next morning and telling police the killer was driving a replica RCMP vehicle.
The RCMP have said from the outset that Banfield wasn't aware of her spouse's intentions when she provided him with ammunition prior to the shootings, but they proceeded with charges alleging she, her brother and her brother-in-law had illegally transferred ammunition to the killer.
During a briefing Thursday morning, the commission confirmed that senior RCMP officers, including Supt. Darren Campbell, Chief Supt. Chris Leather, assistant commissioner Lee Bergerman and Commissioner Brenda Lucki, will testify in July and August — under oath and subject to cross-examination.
Premier Tim Houston told reporters on Thursday he was aware of the decision not to permit cross-examination in Banfield's case and that he understood the families' concerns about the process. However, he didn't directly criticize the inquiry as he had done on the first day of its proceedings.
"I remain confident that at the end of this there will be recommendations and information that Nova Scotians can rely on," he said.
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How the N.S. mass shooter controlled, exploited women around him
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***Editor's note: The audio clip that forms the basis of this story is a fraud. Purported by Rob Doucette to be a clip of police questioning his friend Gabriel Wortman in the murder of Kevin James Petrie, it was lifted from an old episode of CSI. Frank (obviously!-ed.) regrets the error.***
the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - July 10, 2022 - with Paul Palango
https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/nova-scotia-rampage
https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/episodes/nova-scotia-mass-shooting-220703
the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - July 3, 2022 - Weekly Updates - with Paul Palango
Nova Scotia, April 18-19, 2020
Over a period of thirteen hours 51 year old denturist Gabriel Wortman, dressed as a police officer and driving a replica police car, carried out Canada’s most deadly act of mass murder. In this ongoing series Nighttime will explore the many elements of this tragic story. What happened, why it happened, and what could have been done to stop him.
In this episode Paul Palango and I recap the past weeks developments, respond to listener voice memos, and share some details of upcoming work we will be sharing.
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Prison visit with former Quebec Hells Angels boss Maurice "Mom" Boucher
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Maurice « Mom » Boucher meurt à 69 ans
'Mom' Boucher gets new 10-year sentence, daughter to serve house arrest
"All is good," said Boucher before the sentencing. The former Hells Angel is already serving three life sentences related to the murders of two prison guards and the attempted murder of another.
An artist rendering of Maurice (Mom) Boucher at the Gouin Courthouse in Montreal, on Friday, May 11, 2018. Photo by Mike McLaughlin /MONTREAL GAZETTE The sentence was part of a common suggestion presented to Superior Court Justice Éric Downs at the Gouin courthouse in northern Montreal by defence lawyer Mathieu Poissant and prosecutor Matthew Ferguson.
“All is good,” Boucher said when asked by Downs if he had anything to say before he officially sentenced him.
Boucher, a former member of the Hells Angels, is already serving three life sentences for having issued orders that led to the murders of two prison guards and the attempted murder of another in 1997.
“Institutions (like penitentiaries) are not law-free zones,” Downs said in reference to how Boucher hatched the plot while he was in a federal penitentiary and Desjardins was waiting to be transferred to one. The judge also criticized Boucher for having “manipulated” his then-pregnant daughter, Alexandra Mongeau, to serve as his messenger.
Ferguson later told reporters while Boucher, 64, is already serving life sentences, the 10-year prison term he received on Friday could push the parole eligibility date beyond the 25 years he already is required to serve before he becomes eligible for full parole.
Alexandra Mongeau, the daughter of Maurice (Mom) Boucher, leaves the
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During the same hearing, Mongeau, 28, pleaded guilty to being in possession of the proceeds of crime.
According to a summary of facts read into the court record, Mongeau was being paid a cut (referred to as rent or taxes) of the profits on drugs sold in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough between 2011 and 2015. Her cut worked out to $1,000 per month and came from traffickers who sold drugs like cocaine in neighbourhoods her father ruled over when he was clearly the leader of the Hells Angels in Montreal during the 1990s.
The investigation revealed that Mongeau worked for her allowance. She acted as a messenger between the drug trafficking network in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and her father while he was behind bars. It was an indication that even though he has been incarcerated since 2002, Boucher still has influence on drug trafficking in parts of the city.
The investigation also demonstrated that Mongeau wasn’t just a messenger. Beginning in November 2014, the police noticed a man tied to the network was holding cash for the Hells Angels. Drug dealers would drop bags of money off and, on Fridays, Mongeau would pick up the money. She paid the man $1,000 each time she picked up the money. Investigators believe between $100,000 and $160,000 was collected by Mongeau on a weekly basis. When the police executed a search warrant at the apartment, in February 2015, they found two bags with a total of more than $60,000 in them.
Based on a common suggestion from defence lawyer Anne-Sophie Bedard and Ferguson, Downs agreed to a 21-month sentence Mongeau can serve in the community. The first six months of the sentence will be served as house arrest.
During the house arrest, she will only be allowed to leave her home for work or to attend classes. Bedard told Downs that Mongeau recently completed studies to obtain her high school diploma. During weekends, she will have a brief window of freedom to allow her to shop for necessities like food.
She was also ordered to not communicate with many of the people she was arrested with in November 2015. She can only communicate with her father by courier and any letters she sends him can be read by authorities at the federal penitentiary where Boucher is serving time.
As part of the same hearing, Mongeau was acquitted on charges she faced related to the plot to murder Desjardins. Boucher recently pleaded guilty to leading the conspiracy. He wanted to have Desjardins killed once he was transferred from a provincial detention centre in Montreal to a federal penitentiary in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines.
At the time, Desjardins was awaiting his sentence for his leading role in the plot to murder Mafioso Salvatore Montagna.
Mongeau was acquitted in that case even though the prosecution had evidence she acted as her father’s messenger when he wanted to know if someone on the outside was willing to give him the green light to have Desjardins killed. According to a summary of facts entered into the court record when Boucher pleaded guilty last month, his daughter visited him at a penitentiary, on July 26, 2015, and passed on the key message from the person on the outside.
“Yes. Euh, he said yes, do it,” Mongeau was recorded telling Boucher. The rest of the conversation revealed that Mongeau appeared to be confused over where Desjardins was supposed to be killed.
“Certainly there … I don’t know,” Mongeau said at one point while apparently revealing she didn’t even know whether Desjardins had been transferred.
Prosecutor Matthew Ferguson speaks to journalists after the trial of of
Maurice (Mom) Boucher at the Gouin Courthouse in Montreal on Friday,
May 11, 2018. Photo by Peter McCabe /MONTREAL GAZETTE
Ferguson told reporters the Crown will not comment on why it decided to no longer prosecute Mongeau for the murder conspiracy.
When the hearing was almost over on Friday, Boucher stood up in the prisoner’s dock and waited for his daughter to look toward him. When she noticed him, Boucher made hand gestures indicating he approved of how she has lost a considerable amount of weight in recent months. He gave her an enthusiastic thumbs up with both hands.
>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
>>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
>>> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia
>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Mr. Amos,
>>> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of
>>> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
>>> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the Province
>>> of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim
>>> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney
>>> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we will
>>> not be responding to further emails on this matter.
>>>
>>> Department of Justice
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:16:38 -0400
>>> Subject: Attn Laura Lee Langley, Karen Hudson and Joanne Munro I just
>>> called all three of your offices to inform you of my next lawsuit
>>> against Nova Scotia
>>> To: LauraLee.Langley@novascotia.ca
>>> Joanne.Munro@novascotia.ca
>>> Cc: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>
>>> https://novascotia.ca/exec_
>>>
>>> https://novascotia.ca/exec_
>>>
>>> Laura Lee Langley
>>> 1700 Granville Street, 5th Floor
>>> One Government Place
>>> Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1X5
>>> Phone: (902) 424-8940
>>> Fax: (902) 424-0667
>>> Email: LauraLee.Langley@novascotia.ca
>>>
>>> https://novascotia.ca/just/
>>>
>>> Karen Hudson Q.C.
>>> 1690 Hollis Street, 7th Floor
>>> Joseph Howe Building
>>> Halifax, NS B3J 3J9
>>> Phone: (902) 424-4223
>>> Fax: (902) 424-0510
>>> Email: Karen.Hudson@novascotia.ca
>>>
>>> https://novascotia.ca/sns/ceo.
>>>
>>> Joanne Munro:
>>> 1505 Barrington Street, 14-South
>>> Maritime Centre
>>> Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3K5
>>> Phone: (902) 424-4089
>>> Fax: (902) 424-5510
>>> Email: Joanne.Munro@novascotia.ca
>>>
>>> If you don't wish to speak to me before I begin litigation then I
>>> suspect the Integrity Commissioner New Brunswick or the Federal Crown
>>> Counsel can explain the email below and the documents hereto attached
>>> to you and your Premier etc.
>>>
>>> Veritas Vincit
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>> 902 800 0369
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
>>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>> To: coi@gnb.ca
>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Good Day Sir
>>>
>>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
>>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>>>
>>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
>>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
>>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
>>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>>>
>>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
>>> suggested that you study closely.
>>>
>>> This is the docket in Federal Court
>>>
>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>>
>>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
>>>
>>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/
>>>
>>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/
>>>
>>> April 3rd, 2017
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/details/
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>>
>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>>
>>>
>>> The only hearing thus far
>>>
>>> May 24th, 2017
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/details/
>>>
>>>
>>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>>>
>>> Date: 20151223
>>>
>>> Docket: T-1557-15
>>>
>>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>>>
>>> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>>>
>>> BETWEEN:
>>>
>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>>
>>> Plaintiff
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>
>>> Defendant
>>>
>>> ORDER
>>>
>>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
>>> December 14, 2015)
>>>
>>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
>>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
>>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
>>> in its entirety.
>>>
>>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
>>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
>>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
>>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
>>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter
>>> he stated:
>>>
>>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
>>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
>>> You are your brother’s keeper.
>>>
>>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
>>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
>>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
>>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
>>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
>>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
>>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
>>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
>>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
>>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
>>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
>>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
>>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
>>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
>>> Police.
>>>
>>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
>>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
>>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
>>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
>>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
>>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
>>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
>>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
>>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>>>
>>>
>>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
>>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There
>>> is no order as to costs.
>>>
>>> “B. Richard Bell”
>>> Judge
>>>
>>>
>>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
>>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
>>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>>>
>>> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court
>>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the
>>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my
>>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>>>
>>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the
>>> most
>>>
>>> http://davidraymondamos3.
>>>
>>> 83 The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>>
>>> January 13, 2015
>>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>>
>>> December 8, 2014
>>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>>
>>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>>> Stupid Justin Trudeau?
>>>
>>>
>>> Vertias Vincit
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>> 902 800 0369
>>>
>>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
>>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
>>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
>>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>>>
>>> Subject:
>>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
>>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>
>>> January 30, 2007
>>>
>>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>>
>>> Mr. David Amos
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>>
>>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
>>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>>
>>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
>>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>>> Minister of Health
>>>
>>> CM/cb
>>>
>>>
>>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>>
>>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>>> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.
>>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
>>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
>>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>>
>>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
>>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
>>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>>
>>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
>>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
>>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
>>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>>>
>>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
>>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>>> Traffic Services NCO
>>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>
>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>
>>>
>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>> United States Senate
>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>
>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>>> raised in the attached letter. Mr. Amos has represented to me that
>>> these are illegal FBI wire tap tapes. I believe Mr. Amos has been in
>>> contact
>>> with you about this previously.
>>>
>>> Very truly yours,
>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
>>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
>>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
>>> tel.: 506-457-7890
>>> fax: 506-444-5224
>>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>>>
>>> Hon. Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.
>>> Integrity Commissioner
>>>
>>> Hon. Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C., who resides in Bathurst, N.B., is a
>>> native of Kedgwick, N.B., and is married to Huguette (Savoie)
>>> Deschênes. They have two sons.
>>>
>>> He studied at Saint-Joseph University (now Université de Moncton) from
>>> 1960 to 1962, University of Ottawa from 1962-1965 (B.A.), and
>>> University of New Brunswick (LL.B., 1968). He was admitted to the Law
>>> Society of New Brunswick in 1968. He was legal counsel to the
>>> Department of Justice in Fredericton from 1968 to 1971. He was in
>>> private practice from 1972 to 1982 and specialized in civil litigation
>>> as a partner in the law firm of Michaud, Leblanc, Robichaud, and
>>> Deschênes. While residing in Shediac, N.B., he served on town council
>>> and became the first president of the South East Economic Commission.
>>> He is a past president of the Richelieu Club in Shediac.
>>>
>>> In 1982, he was appointed a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench of New
>>> Brunswick and of the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick in 2000.
>>>
>>> On July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the Court Martial Appeal Court of
>>> Canada.
>>>
>>> While on the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick, he was appointed
>>> President of the provincial Judicial Council and in 2012 Chairperson
>>> of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of New
>>> Brunswick for the 2015 federal election.
>>>
>>> He was appointed Conflict of Interest Commissioner in December 2016
>>> and became New Brunswick’s first Integrity Commissioner on December
>>> 16, 2016 with responsibilities for conflict of interest issues related
>>> to Members of the Legislative Assembly. As of April 1, 2017 he
>>> supervises lobbyists of public office holders under the Lobbyists’
>>> Registration Act.
>>>
>>> As of September 1, 2017, he will be assuming the functions presently
>>> held by the Access to Information and Privacy Commissioner.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>> From: Póstur FOR <postur@for.is>
>>> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 22:05:47 +0000
>>> Subject: Re: Hey Premier Gallant please inform the questionable
>>> parliamentarian Birigtta Jonsdottir that although NB is a small "Have
>>> Not" province at least we have twice the population of Iceland and
>>> that not all of us are as dumb as she and her Prime Minister pretends
>>> to be..
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received
>>>
>>> Kveðja / Best regards
>>> Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's Office
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>> From: Póstur IRR <postur@irr.is>
>>> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 22:05:47 +0000
>>> Subject: Re: Hey Premier Gallant please inform the questionable
>>> parliamentarian Birigtta Jonsdottir that although NB is a small "Have
>>> Not" province at least we have twice the population of Iceland and
>>> that not all of us are as dumb as she and her Prime Minister pretends
>>> to be..
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið. / Your request has been received.
>>>
>>> Kveðja / Best regards
>>> Innanríkisráðuneytið / Ministry of the Interior
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
>>> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:39:17 +0000
>>> Subject: RE: After crossing paths with them bigtime in 2004 Davey Baby
>>> Coon and his many Green Meanie and Fake Left cohorts know why I won't
>>> hold my breath waiting for them to act with any semblance of integrity
>>> now N'esy Pas Chucky Leblanc??
>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick.
>>> Please be assured that your email has been received, will be reviewed,
>>> and a response will be forthcoming.
>>> Once again, thank you for taking the time to write.
>>>
>>> Merci d'avoir communiqué avec le premier ministre du Nouveau-Brunswick.
>>> Soyez assuré que votre courriel a bien été reçu, qu'il sera examiné
>>> et qu'une réponse vous sera acheminée.
>>> Merci encore d'avoir pris de temps de nous écrire.
>>>
>>> Sincerely, / Sincèrement,
>>> Mallory Fowler
>>> Corespondence Manager / Gestionnaire de la correspondance
>>> Office of the Premier / Cabinet du premier ministre
>>>
>>>
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Duggan, Jennifer" <jennifer.duggan@rcmp-grc.gc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:06:45 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Folks should watch this before it goes
"Poof" EH Jagmeet Singh ?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
I will be away from the office from July 9-24, 2022.
Je serai absente du bureau le 9-24 juillet 2022.
Subject: Automatic reply: Folks should watch this before it goes
"Poof" EH Jagmeet Singh ?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
This will confirm the Professional Ethics Office has received your
enquiry and it has been placed in a priority sequence.
Due to our volume and the complexity of some enquiries, there may be a
delay in responding.
Thank you for your patience.
______________________________
Le Bureau de l'éthique professionnelle confirme avoir reçu votre
demande qui a été placée dans un ordre de priorité.
En raison du volume et de la complexité de certaines demandes, il peut
y avoir un délai dans la réponse.
Merci pour votre patience.
Professional Ethics Office / Bureau de l'éthique professionelle
Royal Canadian Mounted Police / Gendarmerie royale du Canada
73 Leikin Dr., M5-3-101
RCMP Mailstop #58/
GRC Arrêt Postal #58
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0R2
1-866-206-0195 (off/bur)
ethics-ethique@rcmp-grc.gc.ca<
"Strong Ethics, Strong Organization"
« Une éthique solide pour une organisation solide»
This document is the property of the Government of Canada. It is
loaned, in confidence, to your agency only and is not to be
reclassified or further disseminated without the consent of the
originator."
« Ce document appartient au gouvernement du Canada. Il n'est transmis
en confidence qu'à votre organisme et il ne doit pas être reclassifié
ou transmis à d'autres sans le consentement de l'expéditeur. »
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Pineo, Robert" <RPineo@pattersonlaw.ca>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:06:03 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Folks should watch this before it goes
"Poof" EH Jagmeet Singh ?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Thank you for your email. Please note that I will be out of the
office on July 7, 2022 attending discovery examinations. I will be
checking my messages and will respond within 24 hours.
If you matter is urgent, please email Cassandra Billard at
cbillard@pattersonlaw.ca.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
---------- Original message ----------
From: Tom Taggart <tom.taggartmla@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 17:05:52 -0700
Subject: Re: Folks should watch this before it goes "Poof" EH Jagmeet Singh ?
To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Thank you for contacting us at the office of MLA Tom.Taggart. This
email is being monitored by my Constituency Assistant Andrea. Johnson,
who will get back to you as soon as possible. If your inquiry is
urgent, please feel free to call the Constituency Office @
902-641-2335
Our Office is located @ 10653 Hwy 2 Masstown, Nova Scotia, right next
door to the Petro- Canada.
Our Office hours are Monday- Friday 8:30am - 3:30pm or by appointment.
We are closed on Holidays.
--
Tom Taggart, MLA
Colchester North
(O) - 902-641-2335
tom.taggartmla@gmail.com
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Kennedy, Aaron" <akennedy@quispamsis.ca>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:07:49 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Folks should watch this before it goes
"Poof" EH Jagmeet Singh ?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Thank you for your email.
I am out of the office until Monday, and will respond at that time. If
you require immediate assistance, please call 849-5778.
- Aaron
---------- Original message ----------
From: "Bergen, Candice - M.P." <candice.bergen@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:07:24 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Folks should watch this before it goes
"Poof" EH Jagmeet Singh ?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
On behalf of the Hon. Candice Bergen, thank you for contacting the
Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition.
Ms. Bergen greatly values feedback and input from Canadians. We read
and review every incoming e-mail. Please note that this account
receives a high volume of e-mails. We reply to e-mails as quickly as
possible.
If you are a constituent of Ms. Bergen’s in Portage-Lisgar with an
urgent matter please provide complete contact information. Not
identifying yourself as a constituent could result in a delayed
response.
Once again, thank you for writing.
Sincerely,
Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition
------------------------------
Au nom de l’hon. Candice Bergen, nous vous remercions de communiquer
avec le Bureau de la cheffe de l’Opposition officielle.
Mme Bergen accorde une grande importance aux commentaires des
Canadiens. Nous lisons et étudions tous les courriels entrants.
Veuillez noter que ce compte reçoit beaucoup de courriels. Nous y
répondons le plus rapidement possible.
Si vous faites partie de l’électorat de Mme Bergen dans la
circonscription de Portage-Lisgar et que votre affaire est urgente,
veuillez fournir vos coordonnées complètes. Si vous ne le faites pas,
cela pourrait retarder la réponse.
Nous vous remercions une fois encore d’avoir pris le temps d’écrire.
Veuillez agréer nos salutations distinguées,
Bureau de la cheffe de l’Opposition officielle
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 21:05:49 -0300
Subject: Folks should watch this before it goes "Poof" EH Jagmeet Singh ?
To: "jagmeet.singh" <jagmeet.singh@parl.gc.ca>,
Candice.Bergen@parl.gc.ca, "pierre.poilievre"
<pierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca>, jennifer@halifaxexaminer.ca,
paulpalango <paulpalango@protonmail.com>, Tom.Taggartmla@gmail.com,
darren.campbell@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca, bmassey@justice.gc.ca, "Amato, Mike #509"
<509@yrp.ca>, brenda.lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
ethics-ethique@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, "blaine.higgs" <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>,
"Mark.Blakely" <Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>,
"Marco.Mendicino" <Marco.Mendicino@parl.gc.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
"Katie.Telford" <Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Michelle.Boutin"
<Michelle.Boutin@rcmp-grc.gc.
<michelle.rempel@parl.gc.ca>, kevin.leahy@pps-spp.parl.gc.ca
Charles.Murray@gnb.ca, JUSTWEB <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>, Newsroom
<Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, "Mike.Comeau" <Mike.Comeau@gnb.ca>,
"Louis.Leger" <Louis.Leger@gnb.ca>, akennedy@quispamsis.ca,
"elizabeth.mcmillan" <elizabeth.mcmillan@cbc.ca>, Justice Minister
<JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca>, PREMIER@novascotia.ca, andrewjdouglas
<andrewjdouglas@gmail.com>, smcculloch@pattersonlaw.ca,
NightTimePodcast <NightTimePodcast@gmail.com>, tim
<tim@halifaxexaminer.ca>, rpineo@pattersonlaw.ca, "jan.jensen"
<jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>, washington field
<washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "Boston.Mail" <Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov>,
briangallant10 <briangallant10@gmail.com>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, oldmaison
<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>,
"andrea.anderson-mason" <andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca>
<Bill.Hogan@gnb.ca>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N3UXQxPQTo&ab_channel=NighttimePodcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N3UXQxPQTo&ab_channel=NighttimePodcast
Rob 'the Carpenter' on his time with Gabriel Wortman
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Mounties tested claim N.S. mass killer disposed of bodies on his property
The entranceway to the former property and 'warehouse' of gunman
Gabriel Wortman is seen on Orchard Beach Drive, in Portapique on March
30, 2022. - Tim Krochak
A friend of Gabriel Wortman’s who helped him build his Portapique palace says the Dartmouth denturist was building huge fires with heavy equipment to get rid of dead bodies in the middle of the night long before the Nova Scotia mass murders.
But a study that used ground-penetrating radar at the site found no evidence that was the case.
Wortman had “been a sexual predator in that area for 15 years or more” and “was always telling me different ways to get rid of bodies,” Robert Doucette told the RCMP on the same day a Mountie dog handler shot the killer dead at the Enfield Big Stop.
Doucette met the denturist about a decade ago when Wortman hired him to do some work on his Portland Street clinic. He later helped Wortman with a building project in Portapique, staying in a trailer on the property for six months.
“Gabriel bought all the booze, all the food. And we spent a lot of time shooting his firearms. He’s got a black Glock 40.”
Doucette — who said Wortman could “hit a beer can at 75 yards” with that pistol — described several other guns Wortman owned, as well as two cases of “U.S. military issue nail grenades.”
He told police the mass killer was “extremely loose in the head.”
“Sometimes he just goes off. It’s like a light switch goes and it’s
like all of a sudden he's just smoked three grams of cocaine or
something.”
Wortman told him the large brush fires he built on his Portapique property were to burn bodies.
He described Wortman using an excavator to build a fire that was 13 metres long and more than six metres across, then dousing the pile with more than 100 litres of gasoline before setting it alight.
“He was burning rotten reap,” Doucette said. “And I asked him about (it).”
'Fire's a lot quicker'
Wortman told the builder the only way to get rid of a body “is either use a lot of lime, or just make a fire. He said the fire’s a lot quicker. . . . He was always telling me different ways to get rid of bodies.”
Doucette said the large fires happened about four times while he was working on Wortman’s property, and always in the middle of the night.
“I wouldn’t even turn the light on in my trailer. I wouldn’t even let him know I was awake.”
The Mass Casualty Commission said it has no evidence to support Doucette’s claim that Wortman disposed of bodies on his property.
Mounties investigated the claim.
“By May 11, forensic identification officers had used ground penetrating radar to search the underground of the perpetrator’s Portapique property,” said documents released Tuesday by the public inquiry.
The civic sign welcoming people to Portapique. - Eric Wynne
They checked two of Wortman’s properties on that road, as well as the one where his warehouse had been on Orchard Beach Drive, looking for spots the killer might have tried hiding human remains.
“The Nova Scotia RCMP investigated Robert Doucette’s statement that the perpetrator had burned and buried bodies on his property in Portapique,” said documents published Tuesday by the inquiry.
“By May 11, 2020, forensic identification officers had used ground penetrating radar to search the underground of the perpetrator’s Portapique property. The RCMP took this investigative step with the assistance of Dalhousie University ‘to determine whether anything of relevance or interest to the investigation was buried on the property.’ Nothing was recovered.”
Doucette described Wortman’s violent outbursts toward his common-law wife, Lisa Banfield, including that he’d heard her talking about how the denturist once held a gun to her head.
'One post at a time'
The carpenter also told police about a day Wortman mowed down more than 26 metres of fence with his truck.
“He took that F-150 and just smashed the whole . . . fence right down,” Doucette said.
“Like 80 feet of it. One post at a time.”
Wortman was angry because he found out his uncle Glynn was not leaving him a Portapique home in his will, Doucette said.
He’s “got more money than anybody I know,” Doucette said.
“Why he wanted that house, or that property, I have no idea . . . but he just lost it.”
That’s not the only time a property deal made Wortman angry.
A former friend, Kipling MacKenzie, told Mounties about a physical fight he got into with Wortman several years before the mass killings over a motel property the denturist had scammed him out of in Fredericton. Mackenzie had knocked him out, according to one witness.
“In March 2020, the perpetrator was in Pictou County asking people where Kipling MacKenzie lived,” said a report released Tuesday by the inquiry.
'Looking for him to kill him'
MacKenzie had told Donald MacMillan that Wortman was in Pictou on March 19, 2020 — the night of the Laundry Mat fire — and went to Acropole Pizza asking about MacKenzie.
“Kip told him that . . . Wortman was looking for him to kill him,” RCMP Const. Ryan Murnaghan said in an April 26, 2020 email to another police officer.
“It’s not (too) far of a stretch knowing what we know about Wortman that if he was in town that day, he could have burnt down the laundry mat to flush Kip out, put heat on him, or thought he was living there.”
Sadly this doesn’t surprise me. In my opinion I think the killer had friends in law enforcement and it helped. I could be wrong just get that impression over what’s been reported so far