RCMP Watch

May 26, 2006 - Edmonton Sun
CALGARY, CANADA – Calgary police are conducting an internal investigation to see if a cop charged with impaired driving was on duty at the time.
Const. Ernie Perry was arrested and charged with impaired driving about 9 p.m. Monday night.
Sun sources say Perry was scheduled to work that day from noon [...]

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By JORGE BARRERA, Ottawa Sun
Private sector companies could not score the type of deal the federal government has with Minto Developments for the former JDS complex at 3000 Merivale Rd., say real estate experts.
The $625-million tentative deal would allow the government to buy the nearly million square foot complex for $1 after the 25-year lease [...]

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Mountie sentence appealed
By KEVIN MARTIN, CALGARY SUN
The judge who spared former RCMP Const. Mike Ferguson a jail term for shooting dead a prisoner misinterpreted, or ignored key facts, a prosecutor said this morning.
Crown lawyer Rick Saull said Ferguson should not have been given a conditional sentence for the manslaughter of Darren Varley.
Saull told a three-member [...]

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Stony Plain, Alta. — The RCMP needs better equipment and training, says the son of a slain RCMP officer.
At an inquiry examining Cpl. Jim Galloway’s death, Cory Galloway, 29, said Thursday that the force should have ceramic vests, night-vision goggles and an armoured personnel carrier for use in police standoffs.
His father was shot and killed [...]

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By GARY NORRIS
2006-05-25 17:55:00
TORONTO (CP) - If Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling had run an energy-trading catastrophe based in Canada instead of Texas, would they be headed to prison or to the golf course?
While the two former Enron Corp. executives join a parade of senior managers facing hard time in the United States, there’s a [...]

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May 25 2006 - CBC News
Toronto police have decided to allow an officer to keep his job even though he let a suspected drunk driver go and later accepted $320 hockey tickets in connection with the incident.
An internal police disciplinary tribunal demoted Const. Paul Stone on Thursday from first class to third class constable for [...]

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RCMP members launch a new battle for the right to organize
Canada’s national force is the only police force in the country denied the right to bargain collectively
Toronto (24 May 2006) - A new attempt is being made to unionize the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada’s famous red-coated national police force.
The force is currently barred [...]

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RCMP backs murderous Haitian Police force
By Tim Pelzer
People’s Weekly World

Since the US/Canadian/French-backed overthrow of elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29, 2004, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have been training and supervising police in Haiti who are killing residents in poor neighbourhoods.
Two different RCMP officers have been in charge of the United Nations Police [...]

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Monday, May 22, 2006
Former Ontario finance minister Greg Sorbara says his faith in the justice system has been restored after his vindication in a recent court action against the RCMP. Now if only someone could restore our faith in the RCMP, whose record on many of Canada’s most prominent white-collar crime cases is looking increasingly [...]

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CTV.ca News Staff
Two RCMP officers will finally get their man this summer, when Const. Jason Tree and Const. David Connors walk down the aisle and exchange vows.
It will be the first same-sex marriage in the Mounties’ history.
“I’m a little nervous, as can be expected of any newlywed,” Connors told CTV News.
The two have been a [...]

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