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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A shocking expose of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A shocking expose of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors. As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to obscure the actions of denturist Gabriel Wortman after an officer shot and killed him at a gas station during a chance encounter. Though retired as an investigative journalist and author, Paul Palango spent much of his career reporting on Canada's troubled national police force. Watching the RCMP stumble through the Portapique massacre, only a few hours from his Nova Scotia home, Palango knew the story behind the headlines was more complicated and damning than anyone was willing to admit. With the COVID-19 lockdown sealing off the Maritimes, no journalist in the province knew the RCMP better than Palango did. Within a month, he was back in print and on the radio, peeling away the layers of this murderous episode as only he could, and unearthing the collision of failure and malfeasance that cost a quiet community 22 innocent lives.

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER PRAISE FOR PAUL PALANGO: Why isn't the Nova Scotia mass shooting a national scandal? It may well turn out to be if Paul Palango has anything to say about it. NOW (Toronto)

PRAISE FOR PAUL PALANGO: Why isn't the Nova Scotia mass shooting a national scandal? It may well turn out to be if Paul Palango has anything to say about it. NOW (Toronto)

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER PRAISE FOR PAUL PALANGO: “Why isn’t the Nova Scotia mass shooting a national scandal? It may well turn out to be if Paul Palango has anything to say about it.” NOW (Toronto)

PRAISE FOR 22 MURDERS: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “22 Murders is a must read.” St. Albert Today PRAISE FOR PAUL PALANGO: “Why isn’t the Nova Scotia mass shooting a national scandal? It may well turn out to be if Paul Palango has anything to say about it.” NOW (Toronto)

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PAUL PALANGO is a veteran investigative journalist. He started his career at the Hamilton Spectator, his hometown newspaper. In 1977, he joined the Globe and Mail as a reporter, and between 1983 and his resignation in 1990, he served successively as its sports editor, Metro editor, and, eventually, national editor. During his tenure at the Globe, Palango's reporters swept the Centre for Investigative Reporting Awards in five consecutive years. In 1989, he accepted the Michener Award on behalf of the Globe.

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