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Hey, it's Nancy.

I want to take a minute to introduce you to another great show from the Curious

Cast Podcast Network.

It's called 13 hours inside the Nova Scotia massacre.

It was one of the worst shooting sprees in Canada's modern history,

and it left us with far more questions than answers.

Join Sarah Ritchie from Global News Halifax

as she takes you through this massacre hour by hour.

She tries to piece together what happened and looks at what could or should

have been done to prevent this tragedy. April 19th, 11 a.m. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Jesse Thomas was in a hurry.

As the reporter on duty for Global News in Halifax on a Sunday morning,

he had started his day with a call he didn't expect

to chase down what felt like a huge story,

an active shooter on the loose in rural Nova Scotia.

As he drove north from Halifax, at around that time he could see police cars along the highway.

There was a helicopter overhead.

tweets from the Royal Canadian... There was a helicopter overhead.

Tweets from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told him the gunman was near the town of Brookfield, about an hour outside the city.

But then... I started seeing just a stream of officers

some in Mark cruisers, on in unmarked cars flying at me, maybe 15, 20 cars. It felt like you know the Daytona 500

...