There is now a clear explanation of what happened in the fall of 2020 when a bizarre military misstep led some Nova Scotians to fear the province had released wolves into the wild.
It began with a handful of military reservists testing psychological tactics at a weekend exercise at Camp Aldershot in the Annapolis Valley. They were trying to convince another group that there were wolves in the woods nearby.
It ended with frantic briefings sent up the chain of command to Canada’s defence minister and the head of NORAD, newly released documents reveal. CBC News has obtained 1,500 pages of emails related to