RCMP Watch

Tonda MacCharles, Toronto Star
Was it all worth it?
The years of RCMP foot-dragging, denials and career reprisals. Three months of embarrassing parliamentary hearings and finally a damning report on the RCMP’s mismanagement.
For the five RCMP employees who triggered it all, it’s a loaded question.
Outgoing RCMP Commissioner Bev Busson formally commended those five people with Commissioner’s Commendations [...]

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Jessica Leeder and Greg McArthur, Globe and Mail
Five whistle-blowers who jeopardized their careers trying to force the RCMP to investigate allegations of internal corruption, nepotism and mismanagement were quietly awarded the force’s highest honour in a closed ceremony this week.
Gathered with their families around a horseshoe-shaped table at an upscale Ottawa steakhouse Wednesday, the cadre [...]

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Joey Thompson, The Province
It’s legally OK in this country for a married Mountie to take part in a lunch-hour romp at his home with a mixed-up school girl less than half his age.That, dear readers, is why the Senate must get on with approving proposed federal legislation that jacks up the age of consent to [...]

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Phil Melnychuk, Maple Ridge News
While Lower Mainland RCMP stations struggle to stay fully staffed, competition from their higher paying rivals such as TransLink police isn’t making the task any easier.However, there are many employment opportunities for retired officers, [...]

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Jeff Sallot, Globe & Mail
The RCMP’s chief financial officer, Deputy Commissioner Paul Gauvin, has resigned in the aftermath of the Mountie pension-fund scandal.Mr. Gauvin was criticized in an independent investigator’s report last week for refusing to accept responsibility for problems in the administration of the RCMP pension and insurance plans.
Despite his resignation as chief financial [...]

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Canadian Press
A senior Mountie in charge of the RCMP’s purse strings is stepping down, a week after being criticized in an investigation into the police force’s pension fund scandal.
The CBC is reporting that Deputy Commissioner Paul Gauvin, the force’s chief financial officer, is leaving his position but he is not off the force.
The CBC [...]

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TONY BLAIS, COURT BUREAU
A former soldier who was blasted with a Taser while being unlawfully arrested is suing the Attorney General of Canada and the Morinville Mountie who zapped him.
Gordon James Brown, a former Gibbons man now living in Saskatoon, who suffers Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after serving two tours in Bosnia, has launched [...]

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Halifax Live
According to Pictou resident Leroy Marshall, the bear gunned down by the local RCMP was only young. Marshall, an experienced woodsman according to an article in the Pictou County News, assessed the bear as around a year old and described him as  “peaceful-like”.
Early Wednesday morning Marshall was pleasantly surprised to discover he had a [...]

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Joe Gaetan, Burlington, The Hamilton Spectator, Letters to the Editor
Re: Public Inquiry into RCMP
It took 17 years and a new government before the Air India inquiry was called. The same government that called for that inquiry is now balking at a full inquiry into our tainted RCMP, opting for a private inquiry instead.
The RCMP is [...]

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James Travers, Toronto Star
A word is missing from the Help Wanted sign now in the RCMP window: The word is: Desperately.Only a handful of potential candidates is capable of fixing an intricate organization now officially broken. Worse, why would anyone up to the job take it under current conditions?
Filling Giuliano Zaccardelli’s tiny, notoriously expensive [...]

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