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Apr 19, 2021 7:05 AM
A memorial service is held in Truro, N.S., on April 18, 2021, to remember the victims of a mass shooting exactly one year earlier. (Image: CPAC video capture)
The victims of last April’s mass shooting in Nova Scotia were remembered this weekend.
A memorial service was held at a Truro church Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary.
A few dozen people gathered inside First United Church while thousands of others watched on television and online.
Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin paid tribute to each of the 22 victims during the ceremony.
“They live on in you. The families who love them and the friends who long for them and in the hearts of Nova Scotians who honour them today and always. This is their legacy,” Rankin said.
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A man pays his respects at a roadside memorial in Portapique, N.S. on Thursday, April 23, 2021. RCMP say at least 22 people are dead after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser, went on a murder rampage in Portapique and several other Nova Scotia communities. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
TRURO, N.S. – A lone bagpiper played slow airs outside a church Sunday as relatives of 22 people slain during a killer’s rampage in rural Nova Scotia gathered for an emotional ceremony to honour the victims one year later.
The sombre event at First United Church in Truro, N.S., which was livestreamed in lieu of being open to the public, began with a provincewide moment of silence.
On this day in history: In 2001, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield began his second spaceflight as the shuttle Endeavour was launched. On the fourth day of the 13-day mission, Hadfield became the first Canadian to walk in space. Here, Hadfield waves during the crew walk out for mission STS-100 aboard Endeavour at the Kennedy Space Centre on Thursday, April 19, 2001. (CANADA NEWS WIRE PHOTO/Canadian Space Agency)
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On this day, April 19, in history:
In 1529, eight years after the Diet of Worms was convened by the Holy Roman Emperor, a protestation was published against it by several cities including Strasbourg, Nuremberg and Ulm, and from that evolved the term Protestant.
Map of COVID-19 cases reported in Nova Scotia as of April 18, 2021. Legend here. THE COAST
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Plus some late-breaking school cases on a sucky COVID-19 Sunday. A deranged gunman started a murderous rampage in Portapique, Nova Scotia, on the night of April 18, 2020. That rampage ended with the gunman killed before noon on April 19, by the same RCMP he disguised himself as, after he murdered 22 people. Today marks the first anniversary of the massacre, a time that should be for quiet reflection and peace. Unfortunately, the coronavirus has a different agenda.