Wednesday, May 31st, 2023
Federal government’s plans to implement N.S. mass shooting report still up in the air
Ottawa, N.S. set up watchdog to monitor progress on Mass Casualty Commission recommendations Two months after a commission investigating the worst mass shooting in Canadian history made sweeping calls to reform the RCMP and improve community safety, it’s still not clear how many of its recommendations the federal government will adopt. On March 30, the heads of the Mass Casualty Commission released a final report with 130 recommendations over more than 3,000 pages. The commission was struck to investigate the deaths of 22 people at the hands of a gunmanRead more
17 children, 1 adult injured after walkway collapses during school trip to Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg
‘It just started cracking,’ says St. John’s-Ravenscourt student who was on walkway Eighteen people, 17 of them children, were taken to hospital after many of them fell about five metres from an elevated walkway at Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface area on Wednesday. Jason Shaw, a Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service assistant chief, said the accident happened shortly before 10 a.m. He said three of the children were taken to hospital in unstable condition, while the remaining patients were in stable condition. The children are 10- and 11-year-olds from St. John’s-Ravenscourt SchoolRead more