News 1. The RCMP says Brenda Forbes never reported the Portapique mass murderer for domestic abuse, but that story doesn’t add up The most recent documents from the Mass Casualty Commission look at the Portapique gunman’s history of violence toward his common-law spouse, Lisa Banfield (the Examiner refers to the killer as GW). This week, […]
Wanted: Healthy Nova Scotians willing to be infected with whooping cough
It’s a warm and sunny summer day, but all that Dartmouth resident Sarah MacDonald wants to hear is that it’s miserable outside. MacDonald, 21, is isolating in a hospital room for 16 to 21 days and being exposed to whooping cough — by choice — as part of the first controlled human infection model study […]