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Nova Scotia attacks: police heavily criticised for failures in Canada’s deadliest mass shooting

Flags of Nova Scotia and Canada fly at half-staff outside the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Dartmouth in 2020
Flags of Nova Scotia and Canada fly at half-staff outside the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Dartmouth in 2020. Investigators have found a cascade of police failures made the Nova Scotia mass shooting worse. Photograph: Tim Krochak/AFP/Getty Images

A cascade of failures within Canada’s federal police worsened the country’s deadliest mass shooting, a public inquiry has concluded, in a damning indictment that found the force has shown little interest in reforming in the years since.

The Mass Casualty Commission, a joint provincial and federal inquiry, was investigating the 2020 shootings in Portapique Nova Scotia, in which a gunman driving a fake police car spent more than 13 hours evading capture and killing 22 people.

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