RCMP Watch

(Toronto Star Editorial) - A human rights ruling in favour of a former RCMP cadet who suffered taunts and discrimination while at the force’s Regina training depot in 1999 should serve as a wake-up call to Canada’s national police.
In a decision this week, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found Ali Tahmourpour, who is Muslim, was [...]

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(CBC) - The Mounties could be paying more than $1 million as a result of a human rights ruling in favour of a Muslim Iranian-Canadian who faced discrimination at the RCMP Training Academy in Regina and was terminated.
The force must also give Ali Tahmourpour, 35, another chance at becoming an RCMP officer, and introduce changes [...]

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(Vancouver Province) - A Summerland RCMP officer is facing one count of assault causing bodily harm stemming from a roadside incident last year.
Cpl. Andre Turcotte, a 15-year veteran of the RCMP who has been stationed in Summerland since 2005, allegedly committed the unprovoked assault on a 40-year-old Penticton man on Highway 97 around 11:45 p.m. [...]

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(Canadian Press) - A longtime Mountie has been charged with assault in an apparent case of road rage in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley.
Cpl. Andre Turcotte, a 15-year member of the force, is accused of assault causing bodily harm as the result of an incident in Summerland last November when he was off duty.
The Mounties say Turcotte [...]

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Rosie Lombardi (InterGovWorld.com) - Privacy organizations are calling for intensified scrutiny and oversight of the RCMP’s information management practices, which have failed to comply with government policy for almost 20 years.
Serious issues were brought to light in a recent audit of the RCMP’s exempt files conducted by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada [...]

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(CBC News) - MPs voted Thursday to find the RCMP’s deputy commissionerin contempt of Parliament, accusing her of misleading the House of Commons with the testimony she provided into the so-called pension scandal.
The motion to find Barbara George in contempt was introduced by Liberal Shawn Murphy, who heads the public accounts committee that heard her [...]

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Jessica Leeder, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - A high-ranking Mountie who could be cited for contempt of Parliament says she has been misunderstood by a parliamentary committee that has been misled by RCMP whistleblowers.
Deputy Commissioner Barbara George testified under oath before the House of Commons public accounts committee three times last year in an effort [...]

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Essica Leeder, Ottawa (Globe and Mail) - A high-ranking Mountie ensnared in the RCMP pension scandal said the House of Commons’ top legal officer privately offered her a chance to avoid becoming “roadkill” in a campaign to have her cited for contempt of Parliament.
The proposal by veteran law clerk Rob Walsh would have required that [...]

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Paul Pearson (Victoria Times Colonist) - The debate about Taser use in Canada has grown exponentially in recent months. It seems that almost every week there is a news story about questionable use of a Taser by police, or, more tragically, someone dying as a result of being shot with a Taser.
It is becoming increasingly [...]

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Ottawa (Canadian Press) - Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says the RCMP will change the way it handles public disclosure of sensitive information such as the income trust probe that sparked a storm in the last federal election.
Day, fielding questions in the Commons, said the reforms urged by Paul Kennedy, the force’s civilian [...]

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