Nova Scotia shaken from 5 intimate partner killings since October. Heres what we know [Video]

In just over two months, five women were killed in Nova Scotia by a male partner, police say.

These homicides, which have shattered families and left communities reeling, come mere months after the legislature adopted a bill in September declaring domestic violence an epidemic.

In an open letter sent this week, more than a dozen gender-based violence groups called on Premier Tim Houston and two ministers to take urgent action.

“We are not seeing any tangible commitments to epidemic-level funding — massive increases in funding,” said advocate Liz LeClair, who signed the letter.

“Transition houses, sexual assault centres, legal services, victim services in this province need a massive overhaul.”

Each of the five recent incidents of intimate partner violence were murder-suicides and, in one case, the woman’s father was also killed.

Here is what we know so far about the five cases:

Brenda Tatlock-Burke, 59, was full of life and always smiling, according to her daughter Tara Graham.

Tatlock-Burke had just …