(CTV.ca News Staff) - Seal hunt protesters are accusing the RCMP of an act of piracy after Mounties armed with machine guns stormed their ship on the weekend.
Black-clad officers bearing submachine guns came aboard Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s ship Farley Mowat on Saturday in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, two weeks after seal hunters accused [...]
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Seal hunt protesters accuse RCMP of ‘piracy’
April 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Quebec Inuit, province investigate whether RCMP killed sled dogs
April 11th, 2008 · No Comments
(Canadian Press) - Quebec’s Inuit association and the provincial government are launching an inquiry into long-standing allegations RCMP officers slaughtered thousands of sled dogs in the province’s north during the 1950s and ’60s.
Inuit elders in Quebec’s Nunavik region claim the alleged killings targeted the Inuk way of life.
Two years ago, an RCMP report concluded there [...]
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MOUNTIES GET EACH OTHER
July 4th, 2006 · 7 Comments
The Daily Record (UK)
Justin Tree and David Connors are two Mounties who got their man - by marrying each other.
The pair became the first gay men in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to marry when they wed in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
They wore their dress uniforms to make their vows in front of a magistrate and [...]
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PM Muzzles MPs On Brokeback Mountie Wedding
May 29th, 2006 · No Comments
PM Muzzles MPs On Gay Mountie Wedding
by The Canadian Press
May 29, 2006
(Ottawa) The Prime Minister’s Office has warned Conservative MPs not to comment on the marriage next month of two gay Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables.
The gag order went to all MPs but was aimed at “the small minority who might say something stupid,” said [...]
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Mounties always gets his man
May 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment
CTV.ca News Staff
Two RCMP officers will finally get their man this summer, when Const. Jason Tree and Const. David Connors walk down the aisle and exchange vows.
It will be the first same-sex marriage in the Mounties’ history.
“I’m a little nervous, as can be expected of any newlywed,” Connors told CTV News.
The two have been a [...]
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