RCMP Watch

CBC News
A former British Columbia RCMP officer has been charged with two counts of child luring, following an investigation that began more than a year ago.
Adam Jonathan Clarke, 23, was a member of the Langley detachment in B.C.’s Fraser Valley when he came under suspicion from the Integrated Internet Child Exploitation Unit.
Police say the two [...]

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CBC News
An RCMP officer has pleaded guilty to a charge of assault, in connection with an altercation involving a prisoner at the Terrace detachment cells nearly three years ago.
Const. Brendan McKenna has been ordered to pay a victim surcharge of $50 and serve a year’s probation.

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Cristin Schmitz
CanWest News Service
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
OTTAWA - The retired civilian watchdog over the RCMP says the Martin government “didn’t want any waves” and tried to “shut her up” by offering to continue her salary if she stepped down early.
Shirley Heafey, the lawyer who chaired the RCMP Public Complaints Commission for eight years until last [...]

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TORONTO — A top Canadian spy official said Monday that many potential terrorists already reside in the country and have trained in al-Qaida training camps, reinforcing publicly what many security analysts have warned of for years.
In testimony before a Senate committee studying Canada’s role in Afghanistan, Jack Hooper, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s deputy director, [...]

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May 29, 2006
CAROL GOAR Toronto Star
Even if he is stretching the truth, Greg Sorbara is wise to say he bears no malice toward the RCMP for putting him through seven months of hell, damaging his reputation and disrupting his political career.
The reinstated provincial finance minister has little to gain — and possibly a good deal [...]

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May 29 2006 CBC News
A man in the Annapolis Valley [Nova Scotia] died after choking on a plastic bag containing cocaine, RCMP say.
An officer spotted Kenneth David Wright, 44, in a Tim Hortons parking lot in New Minas on Saturday afternoon and approached him to deal with an outstanding warrant.

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2006-05-29 02:59:13 MST
Canada Press
VANCOUVER — There are still no answers into the death of Ian Bush, the Houston, B.C., 22-year-old shot in the head while in police custody after having an open beer at a hockey game in October.
But B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal said it’s better to have a thorough investigation than a quick [...]

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Terri Theodore
Canadian Press
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
VANCOUVER (CP) - The heartsick mother of a young man killed after he was arrested for publicly drinking beer is doubtful charges will ever be laid after her son was shot in the back of the head while in police custody.
Linda Bush, who has filed a civil suit against the [...]

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PM Muzzles MPs On Gay Mountie Wedding
by The Canadian Press
May 29, 2006
(Ottawa) The Prime Minister’s Office has warned Conservative MPs not to comment on the marriage next month of two gay Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables.
The gag order went to all MPs but was aimed at “the small minority who might say something stupid,” said [...]

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May. 29 2006
Bruce Cheadle, Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Canada has its own crop of homegrown terrorists capable of acts like the deadly attacks on London’s transit system last summer, says Canada’s spy agency.
“I can tell you that all of the circumstances that led to the London transit bombings . . . are resident here and now [...]

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