RCMP Watch

James McNulty (Vancouver Province) - As RCMP miscues in Metro Vancouver pile higher than a fresh shipment of Tasers, the case for a regional police force replacing municipal Mounties has never been stronger.
Yet there was nary a peep about it in the civic election; the issue remained locked-down for RCMP-contracted mayors and councils.
When the topic [...]

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Daniel LeBlanc, Montreal, QC (Globe and Mail) - The RCMP has struck an immunity deal with disgraced adman Jean Brault in exchange for information on other players in the sponsorship scandal, notably money man Jacques Corriveau, court records show.
A search warrant that was partly unsealed yesterday says that Mr. Brault gave a sworn videotaped deposition [...]

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Ottawa - A former public servant who came under suspicion of leaking draft details of a federal environmental plan is suing the RCMP for allegedly breaching his constitutional rights.
Jeffrey Monaghan says the RCMP did the bidding of the Conservative government by parading him in handcuffs through his office in May 2007. An RCMP news release [...]

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Vancouver, B.C. - (Canadian Press) - The Polish government will be represented in the next phase of the Taser inquiry looking into the death of immigrant Robert Dziekanski.
The second phase of the Braidwood Inquiry starts in Vancouver on October 20, a little more than a year after Dziekanski died after being jolted with an RCMP [...]

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Chad Skelton and Allison Cross (Vancouver Sun) - Animosity between the RCMP and the Organized Crime Agency of B.C. resulted in the failure of a multi-million-dollar investigation into the Hells Angels, a former lead investigator with the OCABC has alleged in a wrongful dismissal suit.
The investigation, known as Project Phoenix, targeted several high-profile members of [...]

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Ottawa (Canadian Press) - MPs studying Taser use are expected to urge the RCMP to restrict the powerful weapons to high-risk confrontations - especially when suspects are highly agitated.
The all-party Commons public safety committee will stop short, however, of recommending a moratorium on the 50,000-volt weapons, says a source close to a report expected as [...]

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(Halifax Herald) - The grieving mother of Robert Dziekanski, the Polish immigrant who died after being Tasered by Mounties at Vancouver’s international airport last fall, last week told a B.C. public inquiry into Taser use that the incident has “shattered” her faith in the RCMP.
Police forces across Canada which use Tasers should be paying close [...]

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RCMP News Release in response to a Globe and Mail article - William J.S. Elliott, Commissioner - Lawrence Martin suggested that my use of the title Assistant Deputy Minister in relation to the senior executive communications position the RCMP intends to establish deserves an explanation and the consideration of additional facts. I agree.
As Mr. Martin [...]

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(CTV.ca News Staff) - RCMP deputy commissioner Barbara George said Sunday that she’s being punished for refusing to apologize for something she didn’t do.
On Thursday, George became the first person in 95 years to be held in contempt of Parliament after a vote that ruled she deliberately misled MPs during an appearance before the Public [...]

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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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