Former Nova Scotia justice minister Mark Furey has told the Mass Casualty Commission he encountered "strong opposition" to a proposal to use a public alerting system in 2012, and that opposition played a key role in his decision to leave the force.

The Mass Casualty Commission investigating the shootings of April 2020 announced late Friday afternoon that the testimony of an RCMP officer who interacted with the gunman more than a dozen times will not be broadcast to the public.

The authors of a report commissioned by the RCMP didnt back up their conclusions in a psychological assessment of the gunman behind the 2020 mass shooting, according to two researchers appearing in front of the inquiry investigating the tragedy Friday.

The man who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia in April 2020 had a history of violence in the decades before his final rampage, inflicting assaults and harassment of strangers, employees, and patients alike.

Relatives of the people killed in the mass shootings across Nova Scotia in April 2020 waited hours sometimes daysfor information about their loved ones, often driving to crime scenes or scouring social media to get their own answers.

The former director of communications for the RCMP, who previously told the public inquiry she "wouldn't change a thing" about the way communications were handled during the mass shootings of April 2020, testified about room for improvementwhile reflecting on how long it took to tweet about the gunman's replica cruiser.

Nova Scotia RCMP stands by its decision to use Twitter to communicate with the public during the mass shooting in April 2020, in spite of widespread criticism for not issuing an emergency alert.