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Friday, 27 September 2019
'What isn't wrong with journalism today?' asks Dalton Camp lecturer
https://stephenkimber.com/no-offence-intended-mr-rudderham/
No offence intended, Mr. Rudderham
One shouldn’t mess — litigiously speaking — with Parker Rudderham. The Cape Breton businessman who owns Frank Magazine — a publication with its own storied courtroom history — sometimes seems as (in)famous for his legal battles as his business successes and philanthropic donations.
On October 30, 2012, to cite but one recent example, his hometown newspaper, the Cape Breton Post, scored a two-for-one story that began: “A prominent Cape Breton businessman’s company pleaded guilty to tax evasion Tuesday, the same day he was issued a ticket for his involvement in a fatal motor-vehicle accident.”
The Canada Revenue Agency claimed Rudderham’s Montreal-based Professional Pharmacy Wholesale Service had “voluntarily violated” tax laws by claiming over $1 million in false expenses. Rudderham pleaded guilty in court but not guilty in the court of public opinion, stressing to a reporter he’d have fought the accusation if he hadn’t been in the middle of selling the company.
Although Rudderham was tight-lipped that day about the motorcycle accident — he had been fined $399.91 under the Motor Vehicle Act for failing to drive in a “careful and prudent manner” — he later announced he’d fight the charge. The widow of the motorcyclist then filed suit against him.
And so it goes. Without pretending to be exhaustive, some cases from Rudderham’s docket: In 2003, he was sued by his ex-employer for allegedly violating his employment contract. In 2007, he sued “an ex-wife’s family member for defamation.” In 2011, he threatened to sue the Halifax Herald over its coverage of firings at Frank. In 2013, Frank reported Rudderham sued his second cousin over a $27,000 debt.
All of which by way of saying it is with some trepidation one questions Parker Rudderham.
Still, I was intrigued by his latest legal to-and-fro. Rudderham is suing a Cape Breton woman and son for alleged “cyberbullying” tweets about him. The defendants dispute that and counter the province’s Cyber Safety Act violates Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It’s not the first time a prominent, well-connected individual has invoked our new cyberbullying law against those they claim have criticized them. Is that really who the law was intended to protect? Will the law — and its good intentions — survive a Charter challenge?
No offence intended, Mr. Rudderham.
STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program
https://ukings.ca/people/stephen-kimber/
Widow of motorcyclist killed in accident suing Frank Magazine owner
SYDNEY, N.S. — The widow of a Nova Scotia man killed while attempting to turn his motorcycle onto his street has filed a civil suit against the driver of the vehicle that struck the bike.
In a statement of claim filed with the Supreme Court this week, Carol MacDonald is seeking unspecified damages from Sydney businessman Parker Rudderham, CEO and president of Montreal-based Professional Pharmacy Wholesale Services Ltd. and owner of the Halifax-based Frank Magazine.
Rudderham was already charged under the Motor Vehicle Act with failing to drive in a careful and prudent manner and paid a fine of $399.91.
The suit outlines several allegations, including Rudderham failed to drive in a prudent manner, failed to maintain a proper lookout and failed to take proper defensive driving techniques in a bid to avoid an accident.
None of the information outlined in the statement of claim has been proven in court.
The accident occurred Sept. 14, 2012, as 67-year-old John MacLeod MacDonald was attempting to turn his motorcycle off Grand Lake Road onto Kytes Hill Drive.
In attempting to make the turn, MacDonald was struck from behind by a 2012 Cadillac Escalade driven by Rudderham.
A defence response to the action needs to be filed within 15 days.
Cape Bretoners react to Frank Magazine closure
SYDNEY RIVER, N.S. — John's Barber Shop has been a Sydney River institution for more than 50 years.
And along with the décor — walls covered with Toronto Maple Leafs memorabilia photos and newspaper clippings featuring local people and their accomplishments — there was one other constant: a round wooden table covered with dozens of copies of Frank Magazine.
Jody Merriam, who was waiting for a haircut Thursday, was suspired to hear the Halifax publication known for its brash reporting of political scandals and regional gossip was shutting down after 35 years.
Merriam said he always leafed through the magazine while waiting for his turn in the barber’s chair.
“It was for the humour and the gossip that they provided,” he said. “It’s just human nature — the cover shows all these people that you know and you see on the news — people across Nova Scotia that are high up — and they’re printing stuff in this magazine that is detrimental to them probably, to their character and everything like that. It didn’t matter what stature you held, your dirty laundry was aired out in this magazine.”
NOT A FAN
Gerry Rendell took over John's Barber Shop after his father, John Rendell, died in 2021. By that time, the COVID-19 pandemic had forced them to remove their magazines and they still mainly operate by appointment so people aren’t lingering in the lobby.
While his father enjoyed the magazine, Gerry said he was never a fan.
“Dad had his own thoughts on it — he thought it was entertaining, it kept you in touch with what was going on behind the scenes here. I didn’t really agree with it because they focused on the negative and I’m an optimistic person,” he said, adding that they always removed any copies that criticized their customers.
“I read the stories too but anytime we had somebody who was in here and a story was based on them, we would take that magazine out of respect,” he said.
“It happened with clientele who came in — obviously I’m not going to mention any names — but you didn’t want people talking about these people when they came in; we’re not a place of gossip here, it’s a place to get a haircut and what’s said here stays here.”
OWNED BY CAPE BRETONER
Self-described as a collection of “news, satire, opinion, comment, and humour,” Frank was established in 1987 and had been owned by prominent Cape Breton businessman Parker Rudderham since 2010. Rudderham did not respond to a request for an interview as of press time.
Paul Palango, a former Globe and Mail editor who has been writing for Frank in recent years, told SaltWire Media on Wednesday that he believes Frank’s closure was a result of Colchester County politicians lobbying to have the publication banned from some local stores as a result of its coverage of the 2020 mass killings.
- Chris Connors is a multimedia journalist with the Cape Breton Post.
https://www.nsbuzz.ca/life/frank-magazine-says-goodbye-after-35-years/
Frank Magazine Says Goodbye After 35 Years
The Halifax edition of Frank Magazine has shuttered its social media accounts and posted a message on their website.
“We regret to announce the death of Frank Magazine, 35, which occurred on September 14, 2022.” the Magazine said.
Frank began publishing in 1987 and was well known for printing political scandals and regional gossip.
More recently, the magazine has been known for its reporting on the Nova Scotia mass shooting. It obtained and was the first to release security video of the shooter being shot by RCMP at the Irving Big Stop in Enfield. The Magazine also appealed a decision by the Mass Casualty Commission to not release the security videos of the shooters death publicly. They were backed by several other media outlets and won the appeal.
The magazine said subscribers can claim the balance owing on their subscription by calling 1-877-633-9595.
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https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/news/frank-magazine-goes-belly-up-100773020/
Frank Magazine goes belly up
Stuffed shirts and political hacks, breathe easy.
Halifax-based Frank Magazine which billed itself as a collection “of news, satire, opinion, comment, and humour,” has shut down.
“We regret to announce the death of Frank Magazine Atlantic, 35, which occurred on September 14, 2022,” says a note on the publication’s website.
“Stricken with a rogue’s gallery of grievous and irremediable medical conditions, death was quick and (mostly! - ed.) painless.”
'It’s been going on for a number of weeks'
Managing editor Andrew Douglas could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
“Stricken with a rogue’s gallery of grievous and irremediable medical conditions, death was quick and (mostly! - ed.) painless.”
'It’s been going on for a number of weeks'
Managing editor Andrew Douglas could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
“I didn’t know it was that precarious a situation,” he said.
'It is a big loss'
The closure is a loss for Nova Scotia, Palango said.
“Frank was a part of the journalistic ecosystem here and it is a big loss,” he said.
“They reported on stories that weren’t on the agenda, basically. They were out scouting for stories that should be reported and that weren’t reported. Stories that were on the edge.”
Politicians blamed
Palango, who reported extensively on the Nova Scotia mass murders of April 2020 for Frank, credited Douglas for his journalistic chops.
He blamed the Frank closure on Colchester County politicians who banded together to get Frank banned from some local stores last year over their coverage of Dartmouth denturist Gabriel Wortman’s murders of 22 people and the horrific aftermath. “I want to congratulate them,” Palango said. “They’re very successful because they killed Frank and I hope they’re happy.”
https://surge105.ca/2022/09/15/after-35-years-frank-magazine-says-goodbye-to-halifax/
After 35 Years, Frank Magazine Says Goodbye To Halifax
Love them or hate them, for 35 years Frank magazine has been breaking stories in Halifax.
Frank started in 1987 and was well known for printing political scandals and regional gossip. So much gossip!!!!
As of yesterday, Frank is no more!
“We regret to announce the death of Frank Magazine, 35, which occurred on September 14, 2022.” the Magazine said.
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/the-vile-racism-and-misogyny-that-was-frank-magazine/
The vile racism and misogyny that was Frank Magazine
Morning File, Thursday, September 15, 2022
News
1. Frank
Frank Magazine announcing its own death
Frank Magazine has died.
The magazine announced its own death on its website, and then deleted its social media accounts. No explanation was provided for the closure.
Frank was started in 1987 by David Bentley, Lyndon Watkins, and Dulcie Conrad. Bentley was the primary operator of Frank, having used the proceeds of his sale of The Daily News to finance the new magazine. (There’s a publication with the same name in Ottawa; the two are not now related.)
Bentley infused Frank with the spirit of the English tabloids. Frank scoured assessment and court records to satirically take on the business and political elites, and otherwise reported on their private lives. This was in stark contrast to the existing news media, which were timid and overly deferential to the powerful.
There’s a complicated ownership history, but in 2004, Frank was purchased by John Williams. Williams was especially good at revealing the sex abuse scandals of the Catholic Church. His work was important, and I valued the publication.
I was friendly with Williams. It was clear the enterprise was exhausting him, and he complained that it wasn’t working financially. So I wasn’t surprised in 2010 when he sold it. I congratulated him on his work, and wished him the best. Williams then made a run at a gay publication called Gaze*, but subsequently left journalism completely. I haven’t kept up with him, but I’m told he’s doing well. I’m glad.
While I wasn’t surprised that Williams sold Frank, I was surprised about who bought it: Parker Rudderham, the Cape Breton businessman with a reputation for his many engagements in the court system.
Soon after Rudderham bought Frank there was a mass exodus and/or firing (depending on whom you talk to) at Frank. My understanding is that staff were upset at the increasingly misogynistic turn of Frank. Four reporters left: Mairin Prentiss, Jacob Boon, Neal Ozano, and Dan Walsh, leaving editorial control of the magazine in the hands of the sole remaining reporter, Andrew Douglas. Rudderham reportedly threatened to sue the Chronicle Herald over its reporting on the staff issues.
In the wake of that episode, the little publication that had been punching up for the previous 14 years began aggressively punching down, attacking unions, women, immigrants, and (especially) people of colour.
Much of that ugly “reporting” was directed at my friend and colleague, El Jones.
“They drew me as a monkey,” Jones tells me, referring to a cartoon published in the magazine, which was reminiscent of 19th century cartoons representing Black people as beasts. Publication of the cartoon resulted in Frank being yanked completely from the stands at Atlantic News and pulled off prominent display in other outlets.
“Frank spent years following me around in public, taking pictures of me walking on the street, reposting private posts from my social media and making fake identities to come on my page, turning up at award events to harass and post about me and nobody else, and on and on and on,” continues Jones. “What great political project was involved in Andrew Douglas walking by Venus Envy and tweeting about how he saw a book on interracial sex, adding, ‘don’t tell El Jones’?”
“I also note that the very thing they are now being credited with — fierce criticism of the RCMP — is the very thing they harassed me over,” she adds. “When Black and Indigenous women said and say the police are corrupt and not accountable, Frank put us on the cover and degraded us. And the very next week, they could write about the police, and get praised. This is a great example of how racism and misogynoir work — I am ‘crazy,’ a ‘cop hater’ and ‘disgusting’ when I make informed critique of the police, but when white men critique the police, they are fantastic journalists.”
It wasn’t just Jones that Frank attacked. I won’t get into all the details of its coverage of Rehtaeh Parsons, but will note that Douglas decided the real guilty party was not the boys who assaulted Rehtaeh, but rather her mother, Leah Parsons, for improper parental supervision. “My mother wouldn’t have given me the chance to kill myself,” wrote Douglas. “She would’ve done it for me.”
Then there was this February 25, 2016 tweet from @Frank_Mag (the entire account was deleted yesterday), after Halifax Transit named one of the ferries in honour of civil rights activist Viola Desmond:
Next year during Black History Month, we’ll all be able to ride Viola Desmond. Several times a day, if that’s what you’re in to.
I’m just scratching the surface. The magazine was filled with such vile shit issue after issue.
But it turns out that being overtly and proudly sexist and racist is a rotten business model — why pay for that shit when you can get it for free from your asshole uncle on Facebook?
I have no knowledge of the finances of Frank, but under Douglas’s reign, the publication increasingly felt like a vanity project for Rudderham. I don’t know how much money he lost on Frank, but evidently he has recently decided that it was too much of a money hole, so he pulled the plug.
About that RCMP reporting. I won’t air dirty laundry in public. My relationship with writers — why I publish them, why I sometimes decide to stop publishing them — is not the public’s business. Suffice it to say that as an editor I have many concerns — reputational value, reliable sourcing, accuracy, how issues are framed, the potential for litigation, and more — and I have not just the right but the responsibility as editor to exercise my judgment on these things.
I reported critically on the RCMP long before the mass murders of April 2020 — as I detailed in the Dead Wrong series, the RCMP knowingly left Glen Assoun, an innocent man, in prison rather than let an investigator cast doubt on Assoun’s conviction — and I’ve been reporting critically on the RCMP in relation to the mass murders. But I do so fairly, accurately, and with facts I find properly sourced.
Competition in the news business is good, as it sharpens all of us, keeps us on our toes. I criticize other publications, but when they close or downsize, I usually lament the loss, praise the past reporting, and worry for the reporters’ futures.
Not this time. Not after what was done to my friend. Not after the mean-spirited attacks on women and victims of sexual abuse. Not after the proudly racist commentary.
Frank and its vile writers can rot in hell.
Nova Scotia’s Frank magazine, a mix of news, satire and humour, ceases publication
Andrew Douglas,
managing editor of Frank Magazine, arrives at provincial court in
Halifax on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. The Halifax-based satirical magazine
Frank has announced its demise after more than three decades of
publication.(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan)
The Halifax-based satirical magazine Frank has announced its demise after more than three decades of publication.
A notice on the publication’s website says the publishers “regret to announce the death of Frank Magazine Atlantic … which occurred on September 14, 2022.”
A photo montage depicting the cartoon figure who appeared on the magazine’s masthead, lying in a coffin with his eyes closed, accompanies the announcement.
The website says the publication, which is distinct from the Ottawa-based magazine of the same name, had operated for 35 years.
It was widely sold at supermarket checkouts and was available online for a subscription fee, and the announcement says subscribers will be reimbursed.
The editor of the publication, Andrew Douglas, was not immediately available for comment.
The magazine has received praise and criticism over the years for its journalism, with some commentators noting that in the past it would break stories that other media then followed.
Stephen Kimber, a faculty member at the University of King’s College school of journalism, writing and publishing in Halifax, said he used to frequently purchase the magazine, regarding it as something of “a guilty pleasure.”
“It had a heyday when they were satirical, they were nasty, and they would uncover things people didn’t want uncovered, but they had a focus on politicians, businessmen and media stars,” he said in an interview on Thursday.
“There was a period when they were breaking stories,” he recalled, referring primarily to the 1990s.
“They did some of the first stories about (former premier) Gerald Regan’s issues with women, they did stories about (former premier) John Buchanan’s trust funds. They were an important journalistic publication in this province for a period of time.”
More recently, the publication was the first to publish a story revealing that senior members of an internal RCMP team tasked with providing information to Nova Scotia’s mass shooting inquiry were married to two top female officers involved in the response. The two Mounties on the team were subsequently replaced due to conflict of interest concerns.
However, Kimber said in recent years he felt the emphasis often shifted too far away from knocking the powerful off their pedestals.
“Many of those being exposed were ordinary people who had nothing to say in terms of public policy or business or anything else,” he said.
“I stopped making it a regular thing to buy.”
In 2017, the magazine came under criticism for a cartoon that depicted El Jones, an African Nova Scotian poet who was attending a demonstration, as having a jutting chin and sloping forehead.
The magazine modified the image after critics described the image as racist and launched campaigns to remove the magazine from stores. Douglas also apologized to readers, saying, “In our mind, we didn’t use (a) racist character, but having said that we also understand that can be totally subjective.”
Jones, who is now the Nancy’s chair in women’s studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, said in an interview at the time she viewed the image as a throwback to racist images in magazines in the 1800s that depicted African men and women as having features closer to primates than Caucasians.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 15, 2022.
Nova Scotia's Frank magazine ceases publication
The publication had operated for 35 years
A notice on the publication's website says the publishers "regret to announce the death of Frank Magazine Atlantic ... which occurred on September 14, 2022."
A photo montage depicting the cartoon figure who appeared on the magazine's masthead, lying in a coffin with his eyes closed, accompanies the announcement.
The website says the publication, which is distinct from the Ottawa-based magazine of the same name, had operated for 35 years.
It was widely sold at supermarket checkouts and was available online for a subscription fee, and the announcement says subscribers will be reimbursed.
The editor of the publication, Andrew Douglas, was not immediately available for comment.
Praise and criticism over the years
The magazine has received praise and criticism over the years for its journalism, with some commentators noting that in the past it would break stories that other media then followed.
Stephen Kimber, a faculty member at the University of King's College school of journalism, writing and publishing in Halifax, said he used to frequently purchase the magazine, regarding it as something of "a guilty pleasure."
"It had a heyday when they were satirical, they were nasty, and they would uncover things people didn't want uncovered, but they had a focus on politicians, businessmen and media stars," he said in an interview on Thursday.
"There was a period when they were breaking stories," he recalled, referring primarily to the 1990s.
"They did some of the first stories about [former premier] Gerald Regan's issues with women, they did stories about [former premier] John Buchanan's trust funds. They were an important journalistic publication in this province for a period of time."
More recently, Frank was the first to publish a story revealing that senior members of an internal RCMP team tasked with providing information to Nova Scotia's mass shooting inquiry were married to two top female officers involved in the response. The two Mounties on the team were subsequently replaced due to concerns about conflict of interest.
Andrew Douglas, the editor of the publication, was not immediately available for comment. (CBC)
However, Kimber said in recent years he felt the emphasis often shifted too far away from knocking the powerful off their pedestals.
"Many of those being exposed were ordinary people who had nothing to say in terms of public policy or business or anything else," he said.
"I stopped making it a regular thing to buy."
In 2017, the magazine came under criticism for a cartoon that depicted El Jones, an African Nova Scotian poet who was attending a demonstration, as having a jutting chin and sloping forehead.
The magazine modified the image after critics described the image as racist and launched campaigns to remove the magazine from stores.
Douglas also apologized to readers, saying, "In our mind, we didn't use [a] racist character, but having said that we also understand that can be totally subjective."
Jones, who is now the Nancy's chair in women's studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, said in an interview at the time she viewed the image as a throwback to racist images in magazines in the 1800s that depicted African men and women as having features closer to primates than Caucasians.
MCC Day 70 - Police Oversight Advice and the Untimely Death of Frank Magazine
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the Nova Scotia Mass Shooting - Sept 11th, 2022 - Weekly updates (with Paul Palango)
In this episode Paul Palango and I discuss recent updates in this ever evolving story, most specifically the recent testimony of Cnst. Greg Willey and the ongoing situation surrounding the mass stabbing in Saskatchewan.
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No Harry Potter magic here just the Hells Angels by Paul Palango
NO HARRY POTTER MAGIC HERE, JUST THE HELLS ANGELS
By Paul Palango
The deliberate murkiness about Gabriel Wortman’s associations with criminals in the years prior to his deadly killing sprees has led to much speculation about what he was really doing. The RCMP says it couldn’t find any serious organized crime connections in Wortman’s past. The Mounties couldn’t figure out where his money came from. The Mass Casualty Commission – the Spinquiry, as we call it – isn’t all that curious about any of it, either.
We don’t know precisely what Wortman was doing all those years before he killed 22 people on April 18 and 19, 2020, but several police sources have provided Frank Magazine with a potentially helpful road map.
It begins with Hogwarts.
We’re not talking about Harry Potter’s magic school, but rather Project Hogwarts, a joint-forces police operation that began in Nova Scotiain 2016.
The information about Project Hogwarts was provided to Frank Magazine by a group of current and former law enforcement officers who are familiar with aspects of what had taken place. One of them is Jimmy McNulty, the pseudonym we use for a source we’ve been talking to for this story since almost the beginning.
“In 2015, the Atlantic provinces started seeing a new stage in the proliferation of outlaw motorcycle gangs,” said Jimmy McNulty. “The Hells Angels were moving east, setting up in Charlottetown and Nova Scotia. The Red Devils, the Angels’ number one support club, set up shop in Musquodoboit Harbour. Another support club, the Gatekeepers MC(I remember those guys!-ed.) started opening up clubhouses around the province. They were supported by the Sedition MC and the Darksiders MC.”
It had been about 14 years since the Hells Angels had been driven out of Nova Scotia after a series of devastating police actions, and now the gang was coming back to town, not only in the Maritimes but also across the country. It was part of a strategy to control the illegal drug trade from coast to coast.
The RCMP was on the case. In fact, then Commissioner Robert Paulson had made taking down the Hells Angels his number one crime-fighting priority in Canada. RCMP projects were being initiated everywhere to counter the threat.
“People were noticing that the bikers were setting up shop and began to complain about it all,” McNulty said. “By the spring of 2016, police forces in Nova Scotia, led by the RCMP, tried to tackle the issue. A provincial biker enforcement unit called the CFSEU (Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit) was set up as part of RCMP federal operations. It was called Project Hogwarts.
“Our intention was to show the outlaw motorcycle gangs that we always control the grounds in our area,” McNulty said. “Our media mouth pieces used fear tactics to rouse the public about the dangers and we began our policing.”
Stories to that end, like one by Keith Doucette of The Canadian Press in late 2016, began sounding the alarm.
“It doesn’t sit well with me for them to be here because I know what they bring with them,” Doucette wrote, quoting RCMP Corporal Andy Cook. “I’ve seen them in action, and they bring violence with them and they bring drug trafficking with them.”
Stephen Schneider, a criminology professor at St. Mary’s University, told Doucette that the Hells Angels were looking to not only control the Canadian market but were likely also planning to set up an export market.
“They are certainly operating pill presses out in B.C. and perhaps they want to start setting up production facilities in the Maritimes so they actually can start exporting,” Schneider was quoted as saying.
Throughout 2016 and 2017, the pages of Frank were littered with biker stories, not only big-picture stuff like who was pulling the strings in Nova Scotia — full-patch London, Ont. HA David (Hammer) MacDonald was one of the top guys — but identifying the comings and goings of many of the smaller players on the ground here, from Annapolis County to Sydney.
Project Hogwarts was lead by RCMP Inspector Alfredo Bangloy. The “brains” of the operation was RCMP Sgt. Angela Hawryluk. Other members of the original team included then-Cpl. (now Sgt.) Mike Kerr, RCMP constables Chris Dodge, Scott Morrison, Peter Hurley and Colby Smith. Halifax Police officers on the team included Detective constables Steve Fairbairn, Nathan Cross, Curtis Osmond, Mike Carter, Cory Simmonds and Rebecca Trueman. A civilian working with the unit was Ellen Urquhart.
As the team conducted its surveillance, they became aware of then 47-year-old Robin Moulton, a high-profile Hells Angels Nomad from New Brunswick, making his presence known in Nova Scotia. The Nomads are elite Hells Angels members who have no set club house and are said to have earned their ranking by having killed for the club, although Moulton does not appear to have ever been charged with murder. Moulton’s lawyer, T.J. Burke did not respond to a request for comment on this or previous stories.
“We focused a lot on Moulton and even put a tracker on his vehicle,” McNulty said. “We followed him back to New Brunswick and were able to identify various real estate and businesses to which he was associated.
“The investigation was proceeding smoothly until the RCMP brass in New Brunswick caught wind that we had expanded into New Brunswick and were chasing bikers on their turf. They were pissed,” McNulty said. “They wanted to shut us down.”
Before that happened, a parallel operation to Hogwarts was set up in New Brunswick – Operation Trident.
The Nova Scotia CFSEU investigation is archived in the RCMP’s PROS record system under file number 2016-979629, McNulty said. The New Brunswick one is filed in the PROS system as 2016-1141937. Frank Magazine will be filing a request to see those files in due course.
In 2016, the outlaw-biker obsessed Commissioner Paulson put assistant commissioner Larry Tremblay in charge of the New Brunswick RCMP. A former member of the Canadian Navy, Tremblay joined the RCMP and rose through the ranks. Between 2004 and 2008 he was seconded to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. In Ottawa, Tremblay ran national security, financial crimes and serious organized crime investigations until 2014. He then moved into protective services, hobnobbing with the political elite, overseeing security for the Prime Minister, Governor General and Parliament, a tried-and-true steppingstone to the upper echelons of the RCMP.
Tremblay had no sooner hit the ground in New Brunswick when he began to put in place his own hand-picked team to take on the Hells Angels. Many of them were trusted French speakers, like then Staff-Sgt. Dustine Rodier, who took command of the Hampton, N.B. detachment, which was at the centre of the action. people he believed he could trust. McNulty said that many of the investigators from Hogwarts and Trident were rolled into two new operations: Projects J-Thunderstruckand J-Thunder.
Project J-Thunderstruck targeted Hells Angels Nomad Emery “Pit” Martin who was operating in Northern New Brunswick, along the border with Quebec.
Project Thunder’s focus was on his fellow Nomad Robin Moulton and the Red Devils, in particular, in Southern New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
It could be reasonably argued that creating large interprovincial operations made sense, considering that the entire population of the Maritimes is less than that of the city of Toronto.
The new investigators added to the investigation roster included Inspector Deanna Hill, Inspector Ron DeSilva, Staff Sergeants Bruce Reid, Sgt. Eric Lanteigne and Constable Julie Messina. Other key players included Fredericton Sgt. Mike Berry and Corporal Gerard Crispo. There were additional investigators from RCMP federal services, Fredericton Police, the Canadian Border Security Agency and other policing jurisdictions.
Here’s where the investigations started to get tricky.
“Any RCMP investigation of outlaw bikers requires an informant, someone the Mounties can control,” McNulty said.
In early 2017, he said, the team was told that the RCMP indeed had a new informant for Project Thunder.
“We were told that they had someone in the Truro-Portapique area who was tied into MS-13 and the Angels,” McNulty said. “The Mounties were hot on it.”
For those familiar with this ongoing saga, the El Salvadoran street gang Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 – “the most notorious street gang in the Western Hemisphere” – is linked to precisely one person in that area – Wortman’s friend and handyman Peter Alan Griffon.
The RCMP and the Spinquiry have all but made the 42-year-old Griffon invisible in spite of his obvious credentials as a witness that many in the public would like to see testify. Griffon was reportedly working on Wortman’s property in the hours leading up to the beginning of the massacres. He called Lisa Banfield’s phone on a number of occasions. Griffon also told police that he was the person who applied the RCMP decals to a decommissioned police car, creating the near perfect replica of an RCMP cruiser that Wortman used during his 13.5-hour spree. Griffon was never charged and his current whereabouts are unknown.
Parole Board of Canada documents describe the circumstances of his 2014 arrest as part of an investigation into MS-13 elements in Edmonton.
“In December 2014 police were conducting an investigation into a known Security Threat Group(STG). You came to their attention through this investigation and on the same day, police stopped a vehicle you were driving. The vehicle was searched and police found cash, a baggie with 3 grams of cocaine, a black backpack containing approximately 800 grams of cocaine, more cash, a score sheet, a portable hard drive and a camera. Police also located multiple cell phones in the vehicle.
“A short time later, police searched a warehouse where you were living. A number of items were found, including multiple firearms and ammunition, approximately 4 kilos of cocaine, $30,000 in cash and various paraphernalia used to buff, package, and traffic cocaine. You did not have a licence to possess any of the weapons and admitted to the police that you worked for a cocaine distribution operation and his job was to store, process, distribute, and transport cocaine to traffickers.”
Griffon languished in an Alberta jail for several years, partly because of a day parole violation, and eventually received a relatively short sentence of two years, eight months and nine days.
The obvious problem with Griffon being the sole RCMP informant was that in 2017 he was still imprisoned in Alberta and didn’t win his parole until August 2018. Once he was paroled, Griffon was allowed to move back to live in his parents’ house, which was located several hundred meters south of Wortman’s cottage at 200 Portapique Beach Road.
“We didn’t get a name on the informant, but I firmly believe it was Wortman and that he was the one who supplied the hydraulic pill presses to the Hells Angels. He fit the profile perfectly,” McNulty said.
The danger for the police, McNulty added, was that Wortman was also a criminal who might have been playing both sides at the same time.
Wherever the truth lies, McNulty said that there was likely a natural evolution of the relationship between Wortman and the RCMP. Wortman had family members who were Mounties and he associated with police officers on a regular basis. It likely all began with a simple relationship, exchanging information with police officers such as Halifax constable Barry Warnell and RCMP constable Greg Wiley, who visited Wortman 16 times until early 2017.
“The thing to note is that Wiley told the MCC that he had no notes about their conversations, which I find hard to believe. That’s not the way the Mounties roll. They report everything,” McNulty said. “What Wiley did say was that he would check in with Wortman about minor criminal activity in the community. That tells you something right there.”
McNulty and their group believe that as Project Thunder got off the ground, the RCMP relationship with Wortman moved to the next level – agent.
“That’s where the big money is,” McNulty said. “He would have had a professional handler at that point. I believe that Mountie was Constable Peter Hurley. That was his specialty. He was the kind of handler who promised the moon to potential informants and even more so to agents, but the RCMP is notorious for not following through.”
Once New Brunswick took over, Inspector DeSilva, then head of the Federal Serious and Organized Crime Unit, assumed the handler responsibility, McNulty said.
We may never know the true story. It would be a criminal offense for a Mountie to reveal the identity of an informant or agent, even after they are dead. The RCMP undercover manual instructs members to lie to everyone but a judge about such matters.
What we do know is what we are allowed to know.
When Moulton was arrested in August 2017, he was charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking and possession of a restricted firearm – a 9 mm Beretta. Not much considering all the effort when you think about it.
At the time of his arrest, CBC News asked then Fredericton Police Chief Leanne Fitchabout the investigation. She said: “Getting down into the weeds of any particular aspect of ongoing or past or present issues could jeopardize investigations and officer and public safety, so I won’t be commenting on any specifics.”
In 2018, Moulton received a rather short sentence of four years and six months.
There was a good reason why that happened, McNulty said.
“The agent was still in place and the RCMP couldn’t reveal everything they knew because that would point to the agent, so they left important things out so they could continue their investigation,” McNulty said. “It could be argued that there was a miscarriage of justice. Moulton’s lawyer wasn’t given all the facts about what the police had been doing.”
The twin projects concluded on April 9, 2020 with the announcement by Inspector DeSilva that two more Hells Angels member and two Red Devils had been arrested in New Brunswick over the previous seven weeks. DeSilva went out of his way to link the arrests to the previous ones of Moulton and Martin, three and two years earlier, respectively. In October, 2021 Martin received a seven-and-a-half year prison term for cocaine trafficking and acting in the benefit of a criminal organization.
“One of the most dangerous times is the end of an operation,” another police source said, echoing the thoughts of others. “By that time, the bad guys, especially the bikers, usually have a good idea about who the rat was.”
Nine days after the projects closed, Wortman began his rampage.
From the closed and dangerous world of outlaw bikers, I continue to hear stories about how Wortman was identified as a snitch and had his life threatened over what happened to Moulton, Martin and the others. No one yet will go on the record, which comes as no surprise, considering the, um, grave consequences.
As for the Mounties, they have their own Hogwarts thing – a magical ability to make controversies disappear into the wind.
In the spring of 2020, around the time of the massacres or shortly afterward, multiple sources say that Hurley was transferred to Ferryland, a small RCMP detachment on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland, about an hour’s drive south of St. John’s. In recent months, he has taken down his social media.
Others, such as Staff-Sgt. Reid were not so lucky. Shortly before 2 p.m. on October 25, 2019, he committed suicide at a baseball diamond in Rothesay, N.B. Reid suffered from typical psychological maladies affecting many police officers, but those who knew him closely say he was particularly distraught over his unheeded warnings about significant failings in the overall Hells Angels’ investigations. According to sources in New Brunswick, Reid believed a number of people – as many as four – had been murdered during the course of the investigation largely due to the RCMP’s shortcomings. Reid told people that he was worried sick about one of the agents that the force had employed. He strongly believed that the person was dangerous and unsuited to the task, but that no one would listen to him.
Fifteen months after the massacres, New Brunswick Attorney General Hugh Flemming took the unprecedented step of having Asst. Commissioner Tremblay removed from his posting. Flemming stated in a letter to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki that he had “lost faith” in Tremblay, but gave no specifics about the roots of his dissatisfaction.
Nova Scotia’s underperforming boss, Assistant Commissioner Leona (Lee) Bergerman, was allowed to resign, as were a significant number of her underlings who were involved in the RCMP response to the massacres.
Before she retired Sgt. Hawryluk was the Mountie in charge of writing the informations to obtain search warrants in the post-massacres investigation. She became a vocal critic of Frank Magazine and me, to the point of lambasting a small store owner near where she lived over his selling my recent book, 22 Murders.
The other trick that the RCMP employs when faced with embarrassment is to promote those who might have failed and safely bury their possible transgressions in the upper echelons of the force. For example, Chief Superintendent Chris Leatherwas moved to a federal policing leadership role in Ottawa.
Staff-Sgt Rodier was promoted to Inspector and was running the Communicatons wing and 911 operations for the RCMP on the weekend of the massacres. After that debacle she received another promotion to Superintendent.
Superintendent Darren Campbell was given a bump to Chief Superintendent and placed in charge of operations in New Brunswick.
His new boss was now Assistant Commissioner Deanna Hill. She was a key player in Projects Thunder and Thunderstruck and afterward was placed in charge of the RCMP in Newfoundland.
“Tremblay put his people in place all over the Maritimes so that he could control things” McNulty said. “After he was pushed out, they brought back Deanna Hill to replace him. It’s just a continuation of what had been going on. You can’t help but think that they’ve put people in place to protect the untold story that scares the shit out of all of them.”
Next there is DeSilva. We don’t know yet what he really did – and the RCMP would never confirm or deny if he was Wortman’s handler -- but the Mounties obviously thought he did a terrific job. DeSilva was named Officer of the Year in 2017 and eventually was promoted to Superintendent. He is currently the officer in charge of the Codiac Detachment, essentially the municipal police for Moncton and its sister communities of Dieppe and Riverview. That’s where at least three of the four murders may have taken place.
One might think that the Mass Casualty Commission might be interested in poking around in all this, but one of its three Commissioners is Leanne Fitch who, to echo her CBC quote, is not the kind of person who likes “getting down into the weeds” of police investigations. The entire Commission appears to be laser focused on not getting to the bottom of the story, having avoided any potentially embarrassing exploration like that for about six months.
Its circular logic goes something like this: “We can’t explore anything that we haven’t been able to document, and we are not going to search for documents that we haven’t been told about because our mandate is not to find fault or cause trauma.”
Our mandate is quite the opposite.
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The Media and the Murders by Rick Howe
The media and the murders
by Rick Howe
Most Nova Scotians today know the basics of what transpired April 18th and 19th, 2020 when something snapped in the mind of Dartmouth denturist Gabriel Wortman, who, dressed as an RCMP officer and driving a replica RCMP vehicle, launched a two day murderous rampage that left 22 Nova Scotians and one unborn child dead and the gunman himself killed by the RCMP.
It was the worst mass killing in Canadian history and it happened here at home. You might think getting the full story behind what happened would be a priority for the mainstream media. Sadly that has not been the case.
Even as the Mass Casualty Commission promises to get to the truth of what happened that tragic weekend, many Nova Scotians remain skeptical. There are some who believe the Commission is party to a cover-up and there never was any intention to reveal the whole truth about the actions of Gabriel Wortman and Canada’s national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Critics believe this has become an effort to deflect from the relationship between them. Why isn’t Wortman’s criminal record and his association with a criminal motorcycle gang not part of the MCC inquiry? The critics believe there is an effort to cover-up the RCMP’s involvement or relationship with Wortman and his relationship with the Hells Angels. Was Gabriel Wortman a confidential police informant? Yet there is little effort by the mainstream media to get to the real story, beyond the pablum fed to them by the RCMP and the MCC.
I’ll give the Chronicle Herald a thumbs up for facts unearthed by its reporters in the thousands of documents dumped online by the Commission, seemingly an effort to bury pertinent details. The CBC’s Elizabeth McMillan has, through freedom of information requests, also revealed new details. However, it stops there.
The mainstream Nova Scotia media need to wake up to the very real possibilities this is much more than just one man’s two day killing spree. Serious questions need to be asked and revealed about events leading up to that weekend, the April weekend itself and the days and weeks following the murders.
Where is CTV’s Rick Grant when you need him?
Sadly, those days of investigative reporters breaking news stories are long gone. Halifax’s all-news talk station has no reporters. When was the last time CTV, CBC or Global broke a major story? CTV for example, has done a reasonable job reporting details from the testimony before the Mass Inquiry Commission, but in the days following the mass killings, the mainstream media continued to accept the narrative presented by the RCMP even as details were few, including no accurate account of the number of people killed. Radio, television and newspaper reports often included verbatim RCMP news releases. It was left to the alternative media to carry the ball.
Thanks to online sites like Little Grey Cells and quasi-news organizations like the Halifax Examiner, and especially Frank Magazine, we began getting details not provided by the RCMP. We were beginning to realize the Mounties were holding key facts from the public.
Frank’s release of the 911 calls from Wortman’s victims and video from his take-down at the Big Stop in Enfield were major scoops. And Frank’s Paul Palango has been ruthless is revealing more details about Wortman, his criminal record and his association with motorcycle gangs and police. He has been a thorn in the side of the RCMP to the point where the RCMP’s media co-ordinator referred to Palango as “an asshole.” He alone has kept this story fresh in the minds of those who follow alternative media.
Then there’s the Lisa Banfield story. Wortman’s long-time companion was indeed a victim of abuse, but the MCC’s decision not to allow cross examination by lawyers for his victims because she was a victim was more evidence for those screaming cover-up. Any effort to question her about her story the night the massacres began was denied.
Why? She is a key witness who could provide more details about what might have set Wortman off and her story about escaping handcuffs while locked in the gunman’s RCMP replica police cruiser and spending the night huddled inside a log in the woods is sketchy at best. And again it is only Frank and Paul Palango who are asking questions about her claims. The Examiner’s Tim Bousquet bought into the MCC’s version of events and recently told a critic to “fuck off.”
Palango told me quite emphatically this is a story about the failure of police, but he thinks the mainstream media has lost interest. Palango says he has no doubt a cover-up is underway. He got support for his claims from an unlikely source, retired CTV anchor Steve Murphy. In two commentaries Murphy agreed there is more to this story than we are being told and suggested the so called conspiracy theorists were on the right track. Murphy also said Lisa Banfield should have been cross-examined by family lawyers. Outside of his comments, it has been crickets from the mainstream media.
”There is no longer a sense of pursuit,” Palango told me.
“It’s like the instinct had been bred out of reporters. No one is doing anything.”
So many questions need answers. Why did the Mounties call for help from the RCMP in New Brunswick? Why not seek aid from nearby police in Truro or Amherst? Why were highway blockades not set up? Why was a man with known ties to the Hells Angels and a neighbour and a friend of Wortman’s evacuated with his father and mother from their home in Portapique while four children whose parents had just been murdered huddled in one home for hours? Why was Constable Heidi Stephenson, basically a traffic cop, looking for a killer alone in her police car? Was the gunman a police confidential informant? What was Gabriel Wortman’s connection to the Hells Angels?
The truth is out there. But is the Nova Scotia media up to the task of unravelling the full story behind this terrible tragedy? Stay tuned. There’s clearly a lot more to learn.
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To the member, through the chair, I think it's important to provide some context in the lead up to the call of the 28th.
It was around April 22 that I got a phone call from the commissioner directly requesting the gun “inventory”, for lack of a better term—the list of guns, makes, models and serial numbers. Really, that's when it began for me in terms of this issue, and it was a request that, obviously, I took seriously, coming directly from the commissioner.
That would be out of the norm of communication to a criminal operations officer, but again, under the circumstances, and given the gravity of the situation, it didn't seem completely odd to me because that would be something that would make sense for the commissioner to share within her senior executive committee in Ottawa, the deputy commissioners and equivalents.
It was on April 23 that CO Bergerman and I actually had a conversation with SiRT. SiRT is the serious investigative team that oversees police activity, akin to the SIU here in Ontario for matters where there is a death in police custody or at the hands of police. It was quite clear from our conversation with the SiRT director that we would be allowed to provide a gun inventory to the commissioner so long as it was used within the RCMP—and that was it. That was the agreement and the commitment that we made to the director of SiRT, which I passed along to Ms. Bergerman, which presumably went up to Ottawa.
That's the background on the lead up, and then really for several days, until the 28th, and akin to what Ms. Bergerman said, there was no further discussion on the gun inventory or the speaking notes, or any sense of interest, from my perspective, in the inventory of guns being released publicly, internal to government or otherwise.
I would echo Ms. Bergerman's comments about the surprise that it came up the way it did on the 28th for an issue that I thought had essentially been resolved through obtaining this inventory and passing it along to be used for internal discussion and understanding.
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