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More than a decade after her brother told undercover RCMP officers he bludgeoned a family to death, Tiffany Burns believes he was coerced into giving a false confession.
In her documentary “Mr. Big,” due out this fall, the filmmaker says Sebastian Burns was one of many victims of a police technique that other countries, such [...]

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Steve Lambert, Canadian press
With the proof caught on video, Quebec provincial police were forced to admit Thursday that three undercover agents were playing the part of protestors at this week’s international summit in Montebello, Que.
But the Quebec police force denied they were attempting to provoke protestors into violence. Rather, they said the three were planted [...]

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Troy Watts, Westcoaster.caThe Tofino RCMP detachment had a debriefing Aug. 21 regarding the death of an Opitsaht man who died in their custody.
Christopher Tom, 38, was arrested without incident for public drunkenness Aug. 4.
Tom was placed in a holding cell under the watch of a guard who periodically observed his condition. In the early morning [...]

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Canadian Press
A member an RCMP major crime unit in Nova Scotia faces charges including theft and fraud.
Const. Blair Francis Gorman, an RCMP officer in the Pictou area, has been charged with two counts of fraud, one count of theft and one count of breach of trust by a public officer.

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Canadian Press
The coroner’s service and the RCMP in British Columbia are investigating the death of a man who swallowed drugs in the back of a police car.
The 35-year-old, whose name has not been released, had been in Kelowna General since his arrest on Aug. 7.
An officer who pulled him over for erratic driving determined the [...]

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Canadian Press
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day and RCMP commissioner William Elliott are to appear before a Commons committee on the scandal surrounding the Mounties’ pension and insurance funds.
Officials in the RCMP and at Day’s office confirmed the pair have been asked to appear next month before the public accounts committee, which uncovered much of the [...]

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Bruce Fein, Slate
To borrow from Mark Twain, there are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and national security claims.
Take the case of suspected terrorist Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen detained by the United States in 2002 while changing planes at Kennedy International Airport. Last week, a Canadian court ordered the release of previously [...]

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Ashifa Kassam, Toronto Star
What started as a simple request to wear a pendant containing passages from the Qur’an spiralled into a daily dose of harassment for a Muslim cadet at the RCMP training academy, the Canadian Human Rights Commission heard yesterday.
It was the first day of a tribunal examining Ali Tahmourpour’s complaint that he was [...]

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CTV.ca News Staff
The RCMP is brushing aside suggestions it was wrong to rely on questionable intelligence obtained from abroad to support search and wiretap warrant applications in the case of Maher Arar and another Canadian of Arab origin held in Syria.
A Sept. 2006 report by Justice Dennis O’Connor said the RCMP wrongly labelled Arar a [...]

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Colin Freeze and Campbell Clark
The civilian appointed to lead Canada’s national police into a new era of accountability revealed yesterday he was among the secret group of bureaucrats who had met to censor findings of the Maher Arar report.”I was certainly involved in the process leading to that decision, but that decision was a decision [...]

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