Lead Investigator Picked for B.C.'s Riot Review

A retired bureaucrat from Nova Scotia with decades of experience reviewing disasters will try to make sense of the Stanley Cup riot.

British Columbia's independent review of the Vancouver riot will be led by a man who once said he was involved in the aftermath of every disaster in Nova Scotia between 1985 and 2007. Doug Keefe, a former deputy justice minister in Nova Scotia, has been charged to review, among other issues, whether police were properly prepared to handle the aftermath of the Canucks' Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins. He is expected to hand his report over to the province on Aug. 31. Keefe was often Nova Scotia's point man in assessing and reviewing disasters that befell the province, such as the Westray Mine disaster that killed 26 workers in 1992. Both the city of Vancouver and the Vancouver Police Department are also launching investigations of the riot.