Posted: Apr 13, 2021 5:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 13
A memorial shows a photo of Gina Goulet, who was killed on April 19, 2020. (Pat Callaghan/CBC)
Karen Dean knew her friend Gina wouldn t want her to be frozen in grief.
In the days after Dean learned Gina Goulet and 21 other people were killed last year, she decided to commission T-shirts and hoodies featuring the phrase Nova Scotia Strong and images of a red heart over a map of the central part of the province.
On April 18 and April 19, 2020, a gunman disguised as a Mountie torched homes and killed neighbours, acquaintances and strangers. The shooter travelled nearly 200 kilometres on rural roads before RCMP shot and killed him at a gas station in Enfield, N.S.
Posted: Apr 08, 2021 9:09 PM AT | Last Updated: April 9
A memorial pays tribute to RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year member of the force and mother of two, who was killed in Shubenacadie, N.S., on April 19, 2020. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
The RCMP notified the Nova Scotia government that it wanted to send out an emergency alert only five minutes before police shot the man responsible for killing 22 people in the province last April, new records show.
CBC News obtained documents through an access-to-information request that shed light on the Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office s internal communications on April 19, 2020, as well as the contact officials had with RCMP regarding the possibility of sending out an alert to warn the public.
Free counselling sessions offered a year after N.S. mass shooting
A team of psychologists is offering free counselling sessions to Nova Scotians around the anniversary of the mass shooting that left 22 people dead.
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Posted: Apr 01, 2021 4:51 PM AT | Last Updated: April 1
The anniversary of a traumatic event like the killings that began in Portapique can impact people in different ways, says Dr. Victor Day.(Robert Short/CBC)
A team of psychologists is offering free counselling to help Nova Scotians cope with the anniversary of the mass shooting last April that left 22 people dead.
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Posted: Feb 11, 2021 8:21 PM AT | Last Updated: February 12
The remains of a cottage and the burnt shell of a decommissioned RCMP cruiser are seen at a property in Portapique, N.S., that belonged to the gunman who killed 22 people on April 18 and 19.(Steve Lawrence/CBC)
The man responsible for killing 22 people in rural Nova Scotia attacked his common-law partner when she was in bed and fired several shots in her direction before locking her in his replica RCMP cruiser, according to newly unsealed documents.
A Nova Scotia provincial court judge approved lifting redactions Thursday on much of the summary of a statement Lisa Banfield gave to police April 19, 2020, detailing the violence she endured in Portapique, N.S., on the night Gabriel Wortman killed 13 of their neighbours.