NS POLICE CHIEF IGNORES RCMP NUDGE

  HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia police chief told an investigator last year that in the aftermath of the 2020 mass shooting, he felt "nudged" by the RCMP not to release a report that had warned the gunman was a threat years before his rampage.
   In an interview widely critical of the Mounties, Truro police Chief David MacNeil said that shortly after the April 18-19 murders, RCMP superintendents Chris Leather and Janis Gray arranged a call to discuss whether the chief would publicly disclose a 2011 warning about the killer, Gabriel Wortman.

   MacNeil said the senior officers seemed concerned that an officer safety bulletin sent nine years before the killing — which warned officers that Wortman owned restricted weapons and "wants to kill a cop" — would be made public as a result of freedom of information requests.