Introducing... 13 Hours: Inside the Nova Scotia Massacre
History of the 90s
Kathy Kenzora
4.7 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The deadliest shooting spree in Canada’s modern history left us with far more questions than answers. Join Sarah Ritchie, a reporter for Global News in Halifax, as she tries to unravel how something like this could happen there.
Sarah will take you through every hour, as it unfolded and together you’ll try and piece together what happened, what could or should’ve been done to prevent it and what we can learn to make sure a tragedy of this magnitude never happens again.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Kathy. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to History of the 90s |
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| 0:09.4 | Hey guys, it's Kathy. I want to take a minute to introduce you to another great show from the |
| 0:14.2 | Curious Cast Podcast Network. It's called 13 hours inside the Nova Scotia massacre. |
| 0:23.9 | 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 |
| 0:30.9 | Global News Halifax as she takes you through the massacre hour by hour. She tries to piece together what happened |
| 0:38.3 | and looks at what could or should have been done |
| 0:42.0 | to prevent this tragedy. |
| 0:47.9 | April 19th, 11 a.m., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. |
| 0:53.3 | Thank you. 11 a.m., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. |
| 1:00.4 | Jesse Thomas was in a hurry. |
| 1:06.3 | As the reporter on duty for Global News in Halifax on a Sunday morning, |
| 1:09.6 | he had started his day with a call he didn't expect, |
| 1:13.0 | to chase down what felt like a huge story, |
| 1:17.0 | an active shooter on the loose in rural Nova Scotia. |
| 1:21.5 | As he drove north from Halifax at around that time, |
| 1:23.9 | he could see police cars along the highway. |
| 1:26.1 | There was a helicopter overhead. |
| 1:33.3 | 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... |
| 1:36.3 | I started seeing just a stream of officers, some in marked cruisers, unmarked cars flying at me, maybe 15, 20 cars. It felt like, |
| 1:49.8 | you know, the Daytona 500. They were just whipping by. He turned his vehicle around, |
| 1:57.3 | followed the line of police cars to a gas station he had passed a few minutes before. |
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