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CBC News
A Labrador lawyer says she is outraged that a female client was allegedly held naked in a police lockup cell for three days.
Stacey Ryan said her client, Carol Ikkusik, felt humiliated and degraded by the experience, which included being forced to sleep on a concrete floor.
“[It is] unbelievable for somebody being treated in such [...]

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Mar. 21 2006 - CTV.ca
An RCMP officer in Revelstoke, B.C. resigned earlier this month after being charged with breaking into the homes of two fellow officers.
“Well, I just got off the phone with RCMP Cpl. Tom Seaman who is expressing his own shock over this story, calling this ‘one of the weirdest things I’ve seen [...]

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March 17, 2006 - Terry Pedwell, Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected an appeal by a former RCMP officer who gunned down his ex-girlfriend during a wild car chase in Montreal.
Lawyers for Jocelyn Hotte had argued that he should get a new trial because his jury never had a chance to [...]

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4 Mar 2006 - CBC News
An international investigation of internet-based child pornography has led to accusations against innocent victims of credit card fraud, a CBC News investigation has found.
In other cases, victims of identity theft found themselves fighting to save their reputations, jobs and marriages after their names were used to buy child pornography.
Still others [...]

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