Nova Scotia RCMP flagged in 2020 that its officers were not equipped to deal with a growing number of intimate partner violence reports, but a request for "much-needed" experts to investigate these cases was not approved by the province.
A group of women's shelters say they have the records to back up a claim that Nova Scotia RCMP did not take a woman's threats seriously, after the Mounties said they could not find any documentation of the complaint.
HALIFAX A Mountie who got to know the man who later murdered 22 people in Nova Scotia told a public inquiry Tuesday he did not consider Gabriel Wortman a friend, even though he visited the killer's rural home 15 or 16 times between 2007 and 2011.