Serious commitment toward N.S. mass shooting recommendations, says committee – Halifax [Video]

The head of the committee monitoring how governments and the RCMP are responding to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia is reporting some progress on key issues, including gender-based violence.

Myra Freeman, chairwoman of the independent progress monitoring committee, started a Friday news conference by calling attention to the fact that three women in Nova Scotia had been killed by their intimate partners since mid-October.

“Incidents of gender-based violence and intimate partner violence have left our province heartbroken and asking why and how can this keep happening,” she said. “More death. More loss. More families shattered by the epidemic (of violence against women.)”

Domestic violence was a key theme for the public inquiry that investigated the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history, which claimed 22 lives on April 18-19, 2020.

The inquiry, formally known as the Mass Casualty Commission, heard that the killer had a …