Journalist and author Dean Beeby hopes his layperson’s guide to the massive report that details how the mass shooting that claimed 22 lives in Nova Scotia ...
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSJournalist and author Dean Beeby hopes his layperson’s guide to the massive report that details how the mass shooting that claimed 22 lives in Nova Scotia happened and what actions can help prevent future deadly violence will make Canadians angry enough to demand real change.
“The commission dissected the killings in minute detail, finding fault with RCMP decisions and actions at almost every turn. The analysis, deeply rooted in evidence, was relentless in its criticism of the police force,” writes Beeby, the former Halifax-based Atlantic bureau chief for the Canadian Press. “Of its 130 formal recommendations, more than half focused on reforming the RCMP.”
“The $50-million-dollar commission’s painstakingly detailed story of the murders is valuable not only for setting out facts for the record but for exposing myriad police failures that began in the first bloody minutes of the disaster. To be told in the report’s conclusions and recommendations that the RCMP’s response was inept is one thing.
“To me, this is not about tinkering. It’s not about reforms. It’s not about changing some protocols. This is really an existential question about whether the RCMP should be left in place as our national police force.” With the help of recently declassified documents, Jason Bell’s book is the first to shine a light on the intelligence work of Winthrop, who was born in Halifax in 1884. Jason is not a known relative of Winthrop.
John Alexander MacNeil is 90 years old and still lives alone in a rundown farmhouse in Cape Breton. One night, he feels his heart stop. After willing himself back to life, he and Death sit at his kitchen table and talk.“I like to think timing is everything,” he continued, ignoring my intended lack of interest.
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