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Nova Scotia gunman used fake police cruiser to flag down victims

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Gabriel Wortman also beat and handcuffed his girlfriend before the shooting, police said, which might have been ‘the catalyst’

The Nova Scotia gunman used his replica police cruiser to flag down motorists before murdering them, and also targeted passersby who offered to help and a lone walker out for a Sunday morning stroll.

Gabriel Wortman – who killed 22 people on Saturday and Sunday – also stole weapons from a police officer he murdered, switched vehicles and changed clothes to elude capture during his 12-hour killing spree.

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Nova Scotia shooting: residents ask why authorities didn’t send emergency alert

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Residents say emergency alert during shooting spree could have saved lives as gunman drove around the province for over 12 hours

As Canada reels from mass shooting that killed at least 22 people, residents in Nova Scotia have asked why authorities failed to send an emergency alert as a gunman posing as a police officer drove around the province for more than 12 hours.

A week before Canada’s worst-ever mass shooting, all residents of the province received a mobile phone alert asking them to remain at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many argue that a similar warning during the shooting spree could have saved lives.

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Nova Scotia shooting: death toll rises to 22 as more victims identified

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Portraits of those killed emerge while police search 16 crime scenes across Canadian province

Police in Canada have updated the death toll of the country’s worst mass shooting to 22, as more victims from the gun rampage in Nova Scotia were publicly identified.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had previously warned the death toll would increase as investigators combed through several homes intentionally set ablaze by the gunman in a 12-hour rampage that started late on Saturday in the town of Portapique. On Tuesday, 16 separate crime scenes were being examined across the province.

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Nova Scotia shooting: friends and family pay tribute to ‘beautiful souls’ lost in rampage

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Eighteen people were murdered in a handful of tightlyknit communities in the hours-long shooting spree

Flags have been lowered to half mast across Canada, as friends and families paid tribute to the victims of the country’s worst ever mass shooting

Related: Nova Scotia shooting death toll rises as Trudeau calls on Canadians to stand united

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Canada shooting: gunman kills 16 people after rampage in Nova Scotia

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Gabriel Wortman suspected of shooting spree in the coastal town of Portapique before he died during standoff with police

A gunman in Canada posing as a police officer has killed 16 people after a 12-hour shooting rampage across Nova Scotia in the worst act of mass murder the country has seen in modern times.

Several bodies were found inside and outside one home in the small, rural town of Portapique, police said, and several homes were set on fire. Bodies were found at other locations and one police officer was also among the dead.

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Indigenous input helps save wayward grizzly bear from summary killing

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When a bear starts feeding off garbage and loses its fear of humans it is quickly shot but an unlikely conservation partnership may be setting a different path

In early April, a young grizzly bear swam through the chilly waters off the western coast of Canada in search of food.

Related: Groggy grizzly bear caught emerging from hibernation in viral video

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Trudeau warns Canada’s coronavirus shutdown likely to remain for weeks

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Prime minister said ‘we’re going to have to remain vigilant’ until vaccine is found as infections climb across the country

Justin Trudeau has warned that Canada’s economic shutdown is likely to remain in place for weeks, as coronavirus infections continue to climb across the country.

“I know people are interested in when things will go back to normal. The reality is, it’s going to be weeks still,” the prime minister said on Tuesday. “It is going to be important to get our economy going – but we’re going to have to remain vigilant until such a time as a vaccine is found.”

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Canada could see 22,000 coronavirus deaths even with physical distancing, officials say

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Dropping strict control measures could lead to 300,000 deaths, projections show after country’s deadliest day yet

Canada could suffer as many as 22,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, even with strict physical distancing and the widespread closure of businesses and schools, Canadian public health officials have warned.

Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that he remained confident that Canadians could continue their “disciplined” behaviour, including staying home and practicing social distancing.

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Trump and 3M reach deal to allow N95 face masks to be exported to Canada

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US officials had stopped shipment at 3M factory after Trump invoked Defense Production Act to halt exports to Canada and beyond

The Trump administration has agreed a deal with the US manufacturer 3M to import more than 166m respirators from China over the next three months and allow 3M to continue exporting its US-made respirators.

The agreement breaks a deadlock which resulted in Washington stopping nearly three million of the specialized masks from being exported to Ontario, stirring fears that Canada’s most populous province would run out of supplies for medical staff battling coronavirus by the end of the week.

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Canada: Ontario warned to expect 15,000 deaths from coronavirus

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Health officials in Canada’s most populous province say extreme measures have probably prevented far higher death toll

Health officials in Ontario have warned that as many as 15,000 will die from the coronavirus in Canada’s most populous province in the coming months, but said extreme measures already in place have probably saved many more lives.

The province released its coronavirus projections on Friday, as it prepares for a surge in cases that could overwhelm the province’s already-strained healthcare system.

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Canada: suspect arrested over murder of two Indigenous men in Alberta

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  • Anthony Michael Bilodeau, 31, charged with double murder
  • Jake Sansom and Morris Cardinal killed while on hunting trip

Police in Canada have arrested a suspect in connection with the murders of two Indigenous men gunned down after returning from a hunt in rural Alberta.

Anthony Michael Bilodeau, 31, has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder over the deaths of Jake Sansom, 39, and Morris Cardinal, 57.

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Canada shocked by double murder of Indigenous hunters

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Two Métis men were found shot dead in rural Alberta after what police believe was an ambush

Police in Canada are investigating the murders of two Indigenous men who they suspect were ambushed after returning from a successful hunt in rural Alberta.

The bodies of Jake Sansom, 39, and his uncle Morris Cardinal, 57, were found early on 28 March beside Sansom’s pickup truck on a country road near Glendon, a farming town 160 miles north-east of Edmonton. Both had gunshot wounds.

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Stranded Canadians plead for help onboard coronavirus-stricken cruise ship – audio

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Holding a sign that reads ‘help us’, a Canadian couple are stranded on the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam off the coast of Panama as sickness spreads aboard. Chris and Anna Joiner are among more than 130 passengers stuck onboard the vessel, which has been stranded for days after Chile refused to allow the ship to dock.

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Groggy grizzly bear caught emerging from hibernation in viral video

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Ranger in Canadian Rockies says video she captured was ‘something everybody needed’ in a time of isolation

On a bright spring day, a hulking grizzly bear named Boo emerged from his winter den, shaking a dusting of snow from his thick coat as he looked around groggily.

The moment was filmed in a remarkable viral video – which also captures the elated reaction of one of the bear’s closest humans, the manager of grizzly refuge in the Canadian Rockies.

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Ranger captures moment grizzly bear emerges from hibernation in Canada – video

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A hulking grizzly bear has found online stardom after he was caught groggily emerging from hibernation on camera. Canadian ranger Nicole Gagnon filmed the end of Boo's hibernation on her phone, a moment she said she had been waiting to document for eight years. It has since been viewed over 100,000 times on Twitter. Boo, 18, draws thousands of tourists every year to his 20-acre enclosure near the town of Golden, Canada

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Air Canada to cut more than 5,000 jobs in response to coronavirus crisis

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Canada’s largest airline plans to cut more than 5,000 jobs in the coming weeks as the coronavirus forces it to ground hundreds of international and domestic flights.

Air Canada is cutting 3,600 employees from its banner company and 1,549 from its discount carrier Rouge. The cuts, which make up nearly 60% of the company’s flight staff, will come in April.

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Justin Trudeau announces sweeping steps to tackle coronavirus in Canada

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  • Prime minister delivers address from self-imposed quarantine
  • Parliament shuttered and curbs on international travel

Canada has unveiled aggressive new measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak, shutting down parliament and advising against foreign travel, even as Justin Trudeau urged citizens to remain calm in a national address delivered from self-imposed quarantine.

“We have an outstanding, we have outstanding public health authorities who are doing an outstanding job. We will get through this together,” said the prime minister, who has been in self-isolation after his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday.

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One for the road? Canada province considers decriminalizing drunk driving

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Alberta officials suggest major changes, saying the current system punishes people but they ‘continue to drive impaired’

A proposal to change to drunk driving laws in a Canadian province has reignited a fierce debate over the best way to prevent alcohol-related deaths on the country’s roads.

Officials in Alberta suggested that major changes are coming to the province’s laws on the issue and have even raised the possibility of the decriminalisation of drunk driving.

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