GUYSBOROUGH: Shifting the focus of the Desmond Fatality Inquiry to the access to firearms, from access to health care services, a New Brunswick RCMP officer who confiscated retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond’s rifle in 2015 testified he did so because he...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Last week, two military psychiatrists explained for the first time, what personal care retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond received in the health care system of the military prior to his medical discharge in 2015.
PORT HAWKESBURY: As retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond struggled to find the necessary help he desperately needed as his mental health deteriorated in late 2016, the Province of Nova Scotia didn’t offer any culturally-specific mental health programs.
GUYSBOROUGH: Retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond’s firearms possession and acquisition licence was first flagged for review by firearms officials in New Brunswick in 2014 after it was revealed the Afghanistan war veteran didn’t disclose his complex diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A federal lawyer has defended the role of Veterans Affairs Canada in the lead up to the triple murder-suicide that rocked the small, tight-knit, historically Black community of Upper Big Tracadie on Jan. 3, 2017.
GUYSBOROUGH: The psychiatrist who assessed retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond - just two days before he fatally shot his mother, wife, and 10-year-old daughter before taking his own life - says the former rifleman didn’t show any signs of acute psychosis...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The Desmond Inquiry heard from three witnesses last week, one of whom had already testified last year. According to Nova Scotia's chief firearms officer, a potential federal regulation aimed at reducing intimate...
PORT HAWKESBURY: A government official testified at the Desmond Fatality Inquiry regarding the standards police use to address cases of intimate partner violence, including the fact officers had “limited” training in the years prior to the triple...
PORT HAWKESBURY: The uncle of retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond says he wasn’t in distress and didn’t see any warning signs from his nephew when he spent the night at his house before carrying out the triple-murder suicide...
PORT HAWKESBURY: Retired Cpl. Lionel Desmond received a total of $126,561 in disability compensation from Veterans Affairs for his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) diagnosis and additional associated conditions, the fatality inquiry heard. A document...




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