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An RCMP officer recounted the 'split-second' decision he and his partner made before discharging their carbines in the direction of what turned out to be a civilian on April 19, 2020, during the hunt for the Nova Scotia mass shooter. 

After a gunman set ablaze a home in Wentworth, N.S., during the April 2020 mass shooting, neighbours called for help and feared the worst. But even after a man’s body was discovered nearby, it took hours for RCMP to break the news to his wife just down the street.

The long-awaited public phase of the inquiry into the mass shootings of April 2020 that left 22 dead in Nova Scotia is beginning in Halifax Tuesday morning but many have concerns about whether their questions will get answered.

As public hearings for the mass shooting inquiry get underway in Nova Scotia, provincial and federal politicians are blasting the commission for not being transparent with the families of victims who died.

The inquiry examining the circumstances surrounding the killing of 22 people in April of 2020 has cost the federal and provincial government about $13 million so far and public proceedings have yet to start.

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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 unsea...

Posted: Dec 16, 2020 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: December 16, 2020 A memorial pays tribute to RCMP Const. Heidi Stevenson, a 23-year member of the force and mother of two, along the highway in Shubenacadie, N.S., on April 21, 2020. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press) The union representing RCMP officers in Nova Scotia says its members are finding it challenging that the force has stopped releasing information about the April mass shooting, especially as they continue to struggle with the pers...