OTTAWA—A new security watchdog report says long-standing, systemic problems hampered co-operation between Canada’s spy service and national police force on the investigation of an extremist threat. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency points to chronic information-sharing challenges for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP. The review agency looked at how CSIS and…
CSIS Info Sharing With RCMP in Extremist Probe ‘Very Limited,’ Security Watchdog Says
Logging Truck Collides With RCMP Vehicles Headed to Enforce B.C. Injunction
Mounties on southern Vancouver Island say three officers were hospitalized with injuries after a collision involving a logging truck Tuesday morning. The RCMP say the officers were driving along a logging road near Port Renfrew, where they were heading to enforce a court injunction against blockades set up to protest old-growth logging. Police say in…
Federal Employee and Police Advocacy Groups Protest Vaccine Mandates
A federal employees’ advocacy group is protesting the Canadian government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for federal workers. Feds for Freedom, an advocacy group formed by thousands of federally regulated employees, says it has sent a petition with over 1,200 signatures to the Public Service Alliance of Canada’s (PSAC) union leadership, demanding they come to the table…
RCMP Union Will Support Mounties Who Shun COVID 19 Vaccination Despite Federal Order
OTTAWA—The union representing RCMP officers says it will support decisions by members “to be vaccinated or not” against COVID-19 following a federal order that Mounties be immunized. The Liberal government announced this week that core public servants, including members and reservists of the RCMP, must be vaccinated or face suspension without pay as early as…
RCMP Officers ‘Bust a Move’ to Make Jittery Teens Laugh—and the Video Goes Viral
Two Canadian Mounties helped a First Nations family overcome a phobia one summer evening—in a 7-Eleven parking lot, strangely enough. They “busted a move” to make the four jittery teens and their mom laugh. Mom Ada Madam, 36, filmed the officers’ groovy moves on her phone and posted it on Facebook—where it went viral. Ada…
RCMP Union Will Back Officers Who Refuse Mandatory Vaccination
The union that represents 20,000 RCMP officers says it will back its members if they choose to refuse vaccination, and will help them should they face “employment consequences.” “The [National Police Federation] supports a member’s right to choose to be vaccinated or not,” says a Sept. 23 email to members obtained by CBC News and reported…
SNC-Lavalin and 2 Former Execs Charged With Fraud and Forgery
The RCMP has arrested and laid charges against two former SNC-Lavalin executives, who are now facing multiple criminal charges including fraud, fraud against the government, forgery, and conspiracy, police said on Sept. 23. The two men, identified as Normand Morin, a former vice-president of SNC-Lavalin, and Kamal Francis, a former vice-president of SNC-Lavalin International Inc., were charged,…
RCMP Charge SNC Lavalin, Former Execs With Fraud Over Alleged Bribery
MONTREAL—The RCMP say they have charged two former SNC-Lavalin executives for allegedly paying bribes to obtain a contract, and have also laid charges against the Quebec engineering giant and its international business arm. The Mounties have not revealed the nature of the contract, but did identify the two people arrested and charged as former SNC-Lavalin…
One Dead After Helicopter Rolls on Landing Near Nunavut Gold Mine
CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut—One man is dead after a helicopter rolled on landing Tuesday near a mine in western Nunavut. Agnico Eagle Mines, which operates the Hope Bay gold mine, says the man was a contract employee working 13 kilometres from the site. The mine, which is about 125 kilometres southwest of Cambridge Bay, suspended operations…
Mountie in Kelowna, B.C., Charged With Assault in January 2020 Wellness Check
KELOWNA, B.C.—The British Columbia prosecution service says an RCMP officer in Kelowna has been charged with assault in connection with a wellness check last year. The prosecution service says in a statement that Const. Lacey Browning faces one count of assault after a wellness check in Kelowna on Jan. 20, 2020. A civil lawsuit was…
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