Brenda Forbes, 62, wanted proof. So the other day, Forbes balanced her iPad on her lap, set it to start recording, and called Glynn Wortman on the Messenger app from her phone. “Hi,” Wortman can be heard saying.
His voice is slightly muffled and the screen is dark, the iPad having slipped and fallen against Forbes’ body while they spoke. “How’s it going?” she asked back.
Wortman and Forbes met in Nova Scotia around 2007, friends through cadets but tied together now by Wortman’s nephew, who killed 22 people last month in the worst mass murder in modern Canadian history.
The rampage started in Portapique, a community of about 100 people 40 kilometres west of Truro, N.S., where the gunman was — for about a decade — Forbes’ neighbour and, for