RCMP Watch

Toronto Star
Sexual harassment and gender discrimination within the RCMP is a problem that has been ignored for too long, according to a Manitoba Mountie who has filed a lawsuit against her employer.
Cpl. Sherry-Lee Benson-Podolchuk claims she suffered years of abuse that forced her to take stress leave and caused ailments, including depression, anxiety and loss [...]

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Kathleen Harris, The Toronto Sun
Canada’s former top cop hopped aboard an RCMP plane instead of a less-costly commercial flight for 72 trips in the past two years.
Documents obtained under access to information show Giuliano Zaccardelli, who resigned last month after bungling testimony to MPs on the Maher Arar affair, used a pricey jet to commute [...]

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Daniel Martins, The Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa resident Andre Lehaie took the RCMP to court yesterday morning, saying the national police force had no right to raid his satellite systems import company in 1998 effectively putting him out of business.
Mr. Lehaie’s company, Digital Supercity, imported U.S. satellite systems and modified satellite decoder cards to allow his Canadian [...]

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Regina Leader-Post
A Manitoba RCMP officer is suing her employer for what she calls “an intentional and reckless campaign” of sexual and emotional harassment and discrimination that allegedly spanned 15 years and two provinces.
Sherry-Lee Benson-Podolchuk is seeking unspecified financial damages from the Mounties and the federal government in a statement of claim obtained Monday by the [...]

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CBC News
Police in Labrador have apologized to a woman who was held naked in a lockup for two days last winter, and have disciplined an officer for mistreating her.
An internal RCMP report has found that police did not follow procedure in a case involving Carol Ikkusek, 26, who was kept naked in a small lockup [...]

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Canadian Press
The RCMP spent close to $5-million investigating alleged terrorist links between Mahar Arar and al-Qaeda and defending itself in the wake of his detention and torture in a Syrian prison, Montreal La Presse reported Wednesday.
Citing documents obtained under the Access to Information Act, La Presse said the RCMP’s investigation of Mr. Arar as a [...]

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CBC News
A man who helped himself to $187,000 from the RCMP Training Academy’s canteen in Regina has been sentenced to six months in jail.
Marlowe Lang, 42, took the money over 28 months beginning in 2003 while working at the snack bar.
The missing funds were first noticed when a suspicious transaction came to light during a routine check of the [...]

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The Ottawa Citizen
Auditor General Sheila Fraser rarely gets accused of getting it wrong, but a major federal contractor strongly disagrees with her latest report, which looked into the bungling of a $1-billion deal to move Canada’s military, RCMP and public servants to new postings.
So does Public Works, the government’s main procurement arm, which takes issue [...]

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Canadian Press
RCMP continued to investigated a security breach at the Prime Minister’s country home in Gatineau Park in which a woman smashed her car into the white wooden gate early Sunday.
The woman was still in the custody of local police yesterday but had not been charged, police said. The woman reportedly just wanted to meet [...]

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CTV.ca
A “troubled individual” breached the security perimeter around Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Quebec country house on Sunday by smashing a car through a gate.
“The protective unit of the RCMP intercepted the vehicle right away and proceeded with the arrest of the individual,” said Cpl. Jean Hainey.
Harper was at the residence, known as Harrington Lake, when [...]

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