The worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history began almost five years ago, shortly after a Nova Scotia man brutally assaulted his common-law wife. In the past six months, police in Nova Scotia have reported a disturbing spike in the number of deaths resulting from intimate partner violence. Since Oct. 18, seven women in Nova Scotia have been murdered by their intimate partners, and the father of one victim was also killed. The Canadian Press has prepared a graphic looking at the data. The graphic accompanies NS-Mass-Shooting-Anniversary