RCMP Watch

TERRI THEODORE VANCOUVER - Canadina Press via Macleans.ca
The chairman of the RCMP Public Complaints Commission believes a comprehensive report on police use of the Taser could save lives.
Paul Kennedy told a convention on police oversight he has concerns over how the 50,000-volt device is being used and how early into a police confrontation the [...]

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Law Times, Written by Helen Burnett, 25 September 2006
The public inquiry process developed by the Arar commission, which had to deal with a large amount of in camera evidence while trying to maximize public disclosure, could prove relevant for future cases in other areas, say counsel involved in the inquiry.
Justice Dennis O’Connor, commissioner of the [...]

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JURIST
Kent Roach of the University Toronto Faculty of Law - June 10, 2006
The arrest of twelve adults and five youths on terrorism charges in Toronto has resulted in world-wide attention on Canada’s anti-terrorism efforts. The allegations are shocking. They include claims that the men tried to purchase three tons of ammonium nitrate to use in [...]

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MICHELLE SHEPHARD, SURYA BHATTACHARYA AND STAN JOSEY
Toronto Star
A group of Canadian teenagers and young men in their 20s, accused by police of being members of a suspected homegrown terrorist cell, will appear in court this morning to face accusations that they plotted to attack Canadian targets, the Toronto Star has learned.
Some members of the group [...]

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SASHA NAGY
Globe and Mail Update and Canadian Press
A terror attack potentially three times more devastating than the Oklahoma City bombing has been averted, the RCMP alleged Saturday.
A counterterrorism sweep Friday resulted in the largest arrest ever made by the nation’s anti-terrorism forces and raised, for the first time, the spectre of homegrown terrorists striking Canadians [...]

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RCMP News Release
On Friday, June 2, 2006, members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and partners of the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team arrested 17 individuals and charged them under Section 83 of the Criminal Code of Canada.
“This group took steps to acquire three tonnes of ammonium nitrate and other components necessary to create explosive [...]

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CTV.ca News Staff
In a sweeping raid, police arrested about a dozen men in the Toronto area on terrorism-related charges Friday night, the RCMP announced.
Intelligence sources allege the men were part of a terrorist cell, close to carrying out attacks on one or more Canadian targets.
Police seized chemicals used to make explosives and weapons.

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Kate Jaimet, CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen

The RCMP works with Chinese security forces to fight crime and exchange information about criminals, suspects, witnesses and missing people, according to a document obtained by the Ottawa Citizen.

And while the RCMP defends the arrangement, one prominent human rights lawyer says it may lead to the Mounties using information obtained from witnesses and suspects under torture.

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By GARY NORRIS
2006-05-25 17:55:00
TORONTO (CP) - If Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling had run an energy-trading catastrophe based in Canada instead of Texas, would they be headed to prison or to the golf course?
While the two former Enron Corp. executives join a parade of senior managers facing hard time in the United States, there’s a [...]

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09 May 2006 | Author MORRIS, Nick.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are embarking on a new battle against organised crime and its links to international terrorism.
RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli made the statement in front of a Senate anti-terrorism committee Monday.
Zaccardelli with Canadian PM Stephen Harper
Zaccardelli with Canadian PM Stephen Harper (©CPimages)
“There clearly is more and [...]

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