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Jalen Harris scored 31 points in over 29 minutes of play, which included the Elam Ending game winner to lead the Scarborough Shooting Stars past the Fraser Valley Bandits, 101-86, on Thursday. In a pivotal Canadian Elite Basketball League matchup, the Shooting Stars (11-8) now hold the tiebreaker following their final regular season home game and …
Read More »Mountie has ‘impression’ Liberal government interfered with N.S. mass shooting probe
A senior Mountie testified Thursday he believes political inference was behind RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s determination to have police release details on the guns used in the Nova Scotia mass shooting. Chief Supt. Chris Leather made the comment at the public inquiry into the rampage that took 22 lives on …
Read More »Lucki, Blair tell Commons committee they didn’t meddle in N.S. shooting probe
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki told a House of Commons committee Monday that the controversy over her alleged interference in Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia was the result of a miscommunication between Nova Scotia RCMP, herself and then-minister of Public Safety Bill Blair. “Let me begin, …
Read More »‘We failed you’: Senior Mountie apologizes to families of mass shooting victims
After two days of intense questioning of how RCMP decisions were made during the mass shooting of April 2020, Chief Supt. Darren Campbell ended his testimony at the public inquiry in tears, apologizing to the families of 22 victims who died. As he broke down, Campbell said it was the …
Read More »RCMP release photos of gunman in Langley shooting and ask for witnesses
Police have released photographs of a 28-year-old gunman in the hope that more witnesses to Monday’s shooting rampage in Langley, B.C. — which left two people dead and two others injured — will come forward. The photos show Jordan Daniel Goggin wearing two different outfits during the course of the shootings, which began around midnight …
Read More »Senior N.S. Mounties testifying at mass shooting inquiry this week
Two senior RCMP officers will testify this week at the public inquiry examining the mass shooting two years ago in Nova Scotia. Supt. Darren Campbell and Chief Supt. Chris Leather are scheduled to speak to the Mass Casualty Commission for two days each, beginning with Campbell on Monday. The commission …
Read More »2 dead, 2 suspects arrested after Whistler Village shooting
Police say two people are dead and two suspects have been arrested after a shooting at the mountain resort of Whistler, B.C., on Sunday afternoon. Inspector Robert Dykstra, the officer in charge of the Sea to Sky RCMP, said officers were on patrol when a report came in just after noon of shots fired at …
Read More »Mass shooting inquiry to examine gunman’s family violence, domestic abuse this week
The inquiry into the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia will learn more this week about the various forms of violence surrounding, and carried out by, the gunman Gabriel Wortman. Emily Hill, counsel for the Mass Casualty Commission leading the inquiry, said they are continuing to learn about what …
Read More »Man dead after shooting outside Days Inn hotel in Surrey, B.C., police say
RCMP say a man is dead after what they believe was a targeted shooting outside a hotel in Surrey, B.C., on Monday afternoon. Police received a call for shots fired outside the Days Inn in the 13300-block of King George Boulevard around 5 p.m. PT and when officers arrived they found a man with …
Read More »2nd RCMP staffer suggests commissioner under political pressure after N.S. mass shooting
The former head of communications for the Nova Scotia RCMP said it was “appalling” to hear the commissioner of the Mounties bring up federal political pressures in a meeting days following the mass shooting. New documents released Tuesday by the inquiry into the massacre on April 18-19, 2020, have accounts …
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