At the splitting block we'll look at upcoming stories The Nova Scotia Citizen is hammering away at. Stories may appear as full columns in days, weeks or months.
We'll only do columns on the stories we can split open, stories may appear on the splitting block but end up back in the pile. If you think a story that appears on the splitting block is important and needs breaking send a message, maybe we can break it open together!
Here are a few stories, we hope to split open:
The first is an upcoming column looking back at journalism in the last year surrounding the April 18-19th 2020 Nova Scotia massacres. Why did so much go so wrong? Why did journalists seem lost at sea? What does it all mean and where do we go from here?
The second is an upcoming column evaluating the situation on the morning of April 19th 2020, when two RCMP officers emerged from what appeared to be a grey civilian vehicle. They approached the Onslow Belmont fire hall, one taking cover in a ditch, the other behind a wooden garbage bin. Confusion lead to the officers shooting at the fire hall, nearly killing innocent civilians. The officers proceeded to flee the scene of this shooting. The following SIRT report ignored witness testimony, was mistaken about what happened, mixed up distances, seemed unable to count shots fired and in general lacked coherency. It failed to address the officers fled the scene after shooting.
The Nova Scotia Citizen has tentatively identified RCMP officers Terry Brown and Malone from Bible Hill detachment, in the public interest, as the officers responsible and hope to cover this in full at a later date.
"Watchdog clears RCMP officers who shot at N.S. firehall during mass shootings"
This isn't good enough for the Nova Scotia Citizen and we know it's not good enough for you.
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Finally a column looking at Little Grey Cell’s YouTube channel, his critical coverage of the case since day one, his creation of a video library that brings together community and much more.
Correction (Sep. 18th 2021) In this column we incorrectly say one of the two Onslow Belmont Firehall shooters may be an Officer “Malone”. In fact, as published recently in Frank magazine in the story “Anatomy of a cover-up” by Paul Palango that officer's name is Dave Melanson.
