A post for keeping track of the shifting narrative in Canadian and Nova Scotia corporate news media regarding the NS Massacre.
Holes in the RCMP’s Nova Scotia narrative are a bigger story than leaked 911 calls
“By all means, let’s have a conversation about journalistic standards and a conversation about the leaking of sensitive materials such as this. But let’s not lose sight of the bigger story here: the RCMP has not been forthcoming”
RCMP’s silence about Nova Scotia shooting spree could be to blame for recent leaks: ex-cop
“The RCMP’s near-blanket refusal to provide information about its investigation into the shooting spree that terrorized Nova Scotians in April of last year may be to blame for a series of leaks to a Halifax magazine, policing experts told Global News”.
Media law experts say decision to publish 911 calls not a matter for investigation
“Iain MacKinnon, a Toronto-based lawyer and president of the Canadian Media Lawyers Association, said it is not the role of the RCMP to be looking into the leak, particularly given that it casts doubt on their own actions”.
Leaked 911 calls from N.S. mass shooting show early reports that gunman had a Mountie cruiser. RCMP vow they’ll investigate the leak
“But all three callers to 911 on the night told police that the gunman was driving a police car. And the third caller later told the first officer on the scene that he had been shot by Wortman and that the shooter was driving a police car. Yet, it was 12 hours after the 911 call from Jamie Blair before the RCMP notified the public — via Twitter — that the gunman was driving a replica police car”.
Paul Palango is a Nova Scotian
N.S. shooter was just metres away from police at Elmsdale service station – but the RCMP did nothing
“Palango believes the video illustrates RCMP knew the gunman was in Elmsdale first, then pursued him to Enfield”.
16) Big St-OP
How One Journalist Is Changing The Narrative Of The Nova Scotia Massacre
“If you’re going to label me a conspiracy theorist, so be it,” Paul Palango says. “Because I’m proving my story as I go along.”
https://www.canadaland.com/paul-palango-changing-narrative-nova-scotia-massacre/
Legal expert says RCMP should replace husbands of top officers on public inquiry team
The Portapique Portal – Part 1; A cold dark night
A comprehensive timeline of the events leading up to and during the Nova Scotia Massacres on April 18-19 2020.
The Portapique Portal – Part 2; Where’s Wortman?
The Portapique Portal – Part 3; A lingering darkness
The Portapique Portal – Part 4; It’s Zero degrees outside!
Through a Glass, Frankly
https://thenscitizen.substack.com/p/through-a-glass-frankly
WHEN POLICE LIES GO UNCHECKED DIFFICULT QUESTIONS ARISE. CLINTON ELLISON HAS ONE FOR THE RCMP By Paul Palango – July 7 2021
“No one who saw it on television could likely ever forget the interview by the CBC’s Brett Ruskin with Clinton Ellison conducted at the top of Portapique Beach Road, a few days after the dual massacres that left 22 Nova Scotians dead on the weekend of April 18 and 19, 2020.The teary eyed and grieving Ellison talked about how he had stumbled upon the body of his dead brother, Corrie, ran from what he thought was gunman Gabriel Wortman and hid in the woods for almost four hours cowering in fear for his life.”
“Months later, Ellison went on Facebook and laid out his pain for everyone to see, apologizing abjectly to the RCMP for any suggestion that he might have said something critical about them. He believed in the police, he said, and later added that he had faith in the Mass Casualty Commission to get to the truth when it finally begins hearings sometime in the fall. Ellison does not talk to the media and has not responded to my efforts to contact him.Now, there is another twist which has sent Ellison into a tortured spin again.”
“It arrived in a sworn affidavit by RCMP Superintendent Darren Campbell as part of the force’s statement of defense to a class-action claim mounted by lawyers Robert Pineo and Sandra McCulloch on behalf of the families of the 22 murder victims. The RCMP were forced by a judge to produce the statement of defense, which it did on June 3.”
“The Mounties appeared to have been ragging the puck, as it were, perhaps hoping that everyone would forget what the RCMP did and didn’t do that terrible weekend.In his affidavit, which was made public on June 15, Campbell attempts to lay out a series of scenarios which appear to show that the RCMP was much more proactive in Portapique that night than it or anyone else had indicated in the intervening 14 months.”
“For example, Campbell said, first Mounties arrived in Portapique at 10:26 p.m. Two eventually made their way on foot into the community “pursuant to their Immediate Action Rapid Deployment training,” and were soon joined by a third. Campbell didn’t describe precisely where the officers went other to say that at 10:41 p.m. they discovered a burning white Ford Taurus decommissioned police car next to a burning building.”
“He doesn’t say whether the building was Wortman’s cottage at 200 Portapique Beach Road or his warehouse/man den at 136 Orchard Beach Drive.By 10:45 p.m., Campbell said that there were five Mounties at Portapique Beach, and seven more en route, but not there yet.In paragraphs 17 and 18 of the statement of defense, Campbell stated: “At about 10:49 p.m., the RCMP members who had formed the IARD team discovered a deceased victim on Orchard Beach Drive in Portapique. Shortly thereafter the IARD RCMP members saw someone approaching in the darkness carrying a flashlight.”
“When the RCMP members prepared to engage the individual, who they suspected might have been responsible for the fires and gunshots, the individual turned off the light and ran into the woods. A second deceased victim was located shortly afterward.” The first body the Mounties said they found was that of 42-year-old Corrie Ellison.’
According to the audio recordings of the RCMP communications, he was killed with a 40 calibre Smith and Wesson which is a standard RCMP issue sidearm. Note that Wortman did not have a 40 calibre Smith and Wesson until the next day when he stole Cst Heidi Stevenson’s sidearm.
RCMP radio communications April 18 2020 in Portapique Nova Scotia
Who killed Corey Ellison?
“Corrie and Clinton had been visiting their father, Richard, who owned a property several hundred metres south of Wortman’s property at 136 Orchard Beach Drive. Corrie had gone up the road to check out the source of flames, which were emanating from the warehouse. He was taking photographs of the fire when he was shot.When Clinton went to investigate why Corrie had not come home, he found his brother’s body. He said that as he ran back toward his father’s place…”
Bedford Driver 
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