Portapique

Paul Wells: At first, it was ’imminent’. Then it was ’in the coming days’. Now it’s just ’next steps.’ Are governments even capable of following through?

Paul Wells: There is no excuse for anything but a public, independent inquiry, and the powerful voices now calling for action cannot be ignored

The iconic force is fraying under the strain of its rural policing model, tragic mistakes, an ugly past and a controversial present

They knew something terrible had happened to their mother. Why did it take eight family members confronting the RCMP to finally get an answer?

Paul Palango: What happened in Nova Scotia was an example of a cascading failure for the Mounties and there are horrible questions for which answers are needed now

New details about the Nova Scotia shooting are raising several troubling questions about the actions and response of the RCMP

Stephen Maher: Coming together in grief has been hard in the small Nova Scotia community. It’s a place where fortunes have been falling for decades.

Leo McKay Jr: A gap has opened between what we thought the world was like and how it now appears. In Nova Scotia, there is surreality upon surreality.

Before the first 911 call came in, there was an assault between the gunman and a person known to him in Portapique, Nova Scotia RCMP Superintendent Darren Campbell said at a press conference Friday morning

In the home where she and her parents were murdered, 17-year-old Emily Tuck lifted her bow and played a song. ’They were their happiest there in Portapique.’