The mass shooting in April 2020 that scarred Nova Scotians has also strained the fraught relationship between the RCMP and municipal forces in the province, with leaders bringing their feud into the inquiry examining the massacre.
In his last report to Nova Scotia's House of Assembly, Chief Electoral Officer Richard Temporale recommends that the agency gain full independence from government. He's worried about the erosion of trust in democratic institutions.
There have been multiple drownings over the decades at iconic Peggys Cove near Halifax, including one in April. With another tourist season approaching, CBC News looks at why some safety measures proposed over the years were abandoned or never implemented.
New documents from the public inquiry into Nova Scotia's mass shooting show the RCMP had turned down the ability to directly issue emergency alerts multiple times in the years before the tragedy. The documents also show that "active shooter" wouldn't have met the criteria at the time for sending an emergency alert.