RCMP Watch

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 [...]

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(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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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