RCMP Watch

The RCMP continue to look for a few good men and women.
Police are dealing with retirements (and a huge loss of experience) plus the demand for additional positions.
Applicants must be 18 years of age, a Canadian Citizen, of good character, proficient in either English or French, have a highschool diploma or equivalent, possess an unrestricted [...]

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Neal Hall, CanWest News Service; Vancouver Sun - 12 June 2006
VANCOUVER - B.C. has not had enough RCMP officers to investigate some of the province’s most serious crimes for at least a decade, says a confidential 2005 provincial government document.
”There are insufficient resources to address the many serious crime investigations, including homicides, abductions and high-level [...]

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JURIST
Kent Roach of the University Toronto Faculty of Law - June 10, 2006
The arrest of twelve adults and five youths on terrorism charges in Toronto has resulted in world-wide attention on Canada’s anti-terrorism efforts. The allegations are shocking. They include claims that the men tried to purchase three tons of ammonium nitrate to use in [...]

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Globe and Mail - Bill Curry - 10 June 2006
OTTAWA — The flood of newspaper headlines and TV reports detailing the alleged terrorist plots to attack Parliament Hill and other key buildings has some lawyers and human-rights advocates urging the public to think skeptically in light of recent history.
Twice since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist [...]

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08 June 2006 - Paul Jackson - The American Thinker
One of the first things Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper did after the weekend arrests of 17 suspected Islamic terrorists in Ontario was to pick up the phone and thank President George W. Bush for American assistance in tying the alleged plot together.
That was most assuredly [...]

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Jun 8 2006 - CBC News
The RCMP have begun their investigation into the death of a man who attacked his elderly parents in a Kelowna suburb on Wednesday.
They say it’s possible Derrick Patrick Madrusan, 38, was suffering from excited delirium, caused by overuse of street drugs such as methamphetamine and cocaine.
It took five officers to [...]

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The lead paragraph of the Toronto Star story on this week’s terror arrests in Canada was: “In investigators’ offices, an intricate graph plotting the links between the 17 men and teens charged with being members of a homegrown terrorist cell covers at least one wall. And still, says a source, it is difficult to find [...]

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PAUL TURENNE, Winnipeg Sun
An Alberta man busted in 2004 for his alleged role in a Manitoba-based ephedrine-smuggling ring is suing the City of Winnipeg, police Chief Jack Ewatski, Manitoba RCMP spokesman Sgt. Steve Colwell, the Attorney-General of Canada, and nine other police officers for allegedly defaming and permanently injuring him.
Aubrey Norbert Bruneau — a 46-year-old [...]

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GLORIA GALLOWAY - Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — Jurisdictional conflicts and lack of political direction leave Parliament Hill an easy mark for terrorists, says one of Canada’s leading security analysts.
Security on Parliament Hill is a story “of overlapping jurisdictions, mismatched skill sets and political interference where it is not needed,” said Tom Quiggin, who has worked [...]

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06 Jun 2006 - Reuters - David Ljunggren
OTTAWA, June 6 (Reuters) - Although Canada is triumphantly publicizing its arrest of 17 alleged home-grown terror suspects, the country’s law enforcement bodies have a mixed record when it comes to determining the threat from militants.
Twice since the Sept. 11 suicide attacks, authorities have mounted major anti-terror operations [...]

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