Toronto, ON (Canadian Press) - The RCMP are challenging an order that it give a cadet expelled from the force another chance to join and pay him $500,000 in damages. In an application for a judicial review, the RCMP argues the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal was wrong to find the force discriminated against Ali [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Discrimination by RCMP'
RCMP challenge ruling in expelled cadet’s favour
May 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments
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Federal rights tribunal criticizes RCMP culture
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments
(Canadian OH&S News) — The RCMP has been ordered to adopt mandatory cultural sensitivity training with a view to “developing and promoting a culture of respect and tolerance for diversity.”
The order by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) follows its determination that a young Muslim man — whose lifelong goal and every effort seemed directed [...]
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Ex-RCMP cadet wins discrimination case; Mounties ordered to re-admit him
April 16th, 2008 · 14 Comments
Toronto, ON (Canadian Press) - An ex-RCMP cadet who claimed he was rejected from the force because of discrimination should be admitted back into the training program and be compensated for his suffering.
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled in favour today of Ali Tahmourpour, a 33-year-old Muslim who dreams of being a Mountie. The Tribunal [...]
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Mountie came with apology, left with committee
February 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments
(Halifax Daily News) RCMP assistant commissioner Ian Atkins told a full-house public meeting at the Digby Elementary School on Tuesday night that he was “disappointed and embarrassed” by the actions of a former local detachment commander, who was accused in 2005 of racist and sexist behaviour.
“I am here to apologize to you the community for [...]
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RCMP scandals that won’t go away
July 7th, 2007 · No Comments
Globe and Mail
Inquest into the death of Ian Bush
• Houston, B.C., RCMP Constable Paul Koester shot Mr. Bush in the back of the head on Oct. 29, 2005, after he had been in police custody for just over 20 minutes. Mr. Bush had been arrested for obstruction.
Pension fund scandal
• Government-appointed investigator David Brown concluded that [...]
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RCMP tightens intelligence standard
June 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Colin Freeze, Globe and Mail
The RCMP is assuring Parliament that it has officially entered a post-Arar world.Senators asked a top Mountie this week whether dubious intelligence from Canada could ever again be used by the United States to deport a suspect to a third country to face torture.
It was precisely this scenario, in 2002, that [...]
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The RCMP is floundering badly: info czar says
May 29th, 2007 · No Comments
Meagan Fitzpatrick, CanWest News Service
Too often the public’s right to know is overridden by government officials who try to hide wrongdoing or save the government from embarrassment. That’s one of the conclusions drawn in Information Commissioner Robert Marleau’s annual report, tabled Tuesday in Ottawa.
The ombudsman in charge of administering Canada’s Access to Information Act said [...]
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Time is ripe to restore frayed trust between public and RCMP
May 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Paul E. Kennedy, CanWest News Service
The RCMP, as an institution, is under intense scrutiny from a number of quarters today.
Should we be concerned?
Can Canadians afford to let key institutions such as the RCMP continue to lurch from crisis to crisis?
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Probe finds former Digby Mountie guilty of racism, harassment
May 24th, 2007 · No Comments
Paul Everest, The Halifax Herald
An internal RCMP probe has determined that allegations of sexual harassment and racism raised against a former Digby Mountie are true.
In 2005, two women working out of the RCMP’s Digby office filed separate complaints against Staff Sgt. Wylie Grimm, then the commanding officer for that detachment. The women alleged he had [...]
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Racism not factor in Air India bombing: B.C. Mountie
May 21st, 2007 · No Comments
Kim Bolan, CanWest News Service
The head of the RCMP in B.C. says he does not believe racism was a factor in the way his force investigated the 1985 Air India bombing.
Deputy Commissioner Gary Bass commented Friday on the question of race, which has been mentioned several times at the Ottawa inquiry into the terrorist plot, [...]
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