Tag: RCMP

Documents Detail Financial Institution Calls to RCMP on Convoy-Supporting Account Holders

Assiniboine Credit Union is among the financial institutions that allegedly reported on their account-holders for suspected support of the Freedom Convoy. The incidents are detailed in documents reviewed by Blacklock’s Reporter outlining the scope of the Emergencies Act account freezes. The Winnipeg credit union reported to the RCMP on Feb. 15, 2021, the first day…


Mendicino to Testify Before Commons Committee on RCMP Contract With China-Linked Company

The House of Commons industry committee voted unanimously on Nov. 12 to hear from Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino about the contract for radio equipment between the RCMP and Sinclair Technologies, a subsidiary of a Chinese company. The committee met at the request of four members to discuss undertaking a study on the matter, and…


Anthony Furey: The Real Problem With Canada’s RCMP-China Contract

Commentary It’s of course good news that the federal Liberal government has put the brakes on a contract that a firm partially owned by the Chinese government had scored to work on sensitive RCMP technology. But we also need to ask what mindset allowed it to happen in the first place. Last year, Sinclair Technologies…


Cory Morgan: It’s Past Time Ottawa Began Taking Security Risks Posed by the CCP Seriously

Commentary It seems as if hardly a month goes by without another revelation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) infiltrating or influencing companies and orders of government within Canada. This month is no exception. It has been exposed that the RCMP had contracted an Ontario-based company with ties to the CCP to provide equipment related…


‘No Grounds’: RCMP Say No Criminal Charges in Fatal Alberta Icefield Crash

Mounties say no criminal charges will be laid in a fatal rollover of an all-terrain tour bus at the Columbia Icefield in the Rocky Mountains more than two years ago. Three people were killed and 14 others had life-threatening injuries after the red-and-white Ice Explorer lost control on the road to the Athabasca Glacier, about…


Mounties Charged in Shooting Found Not Guilty of Manslaughter, Aggravated Assault

Two Mounties on trial in the death of an Alberta man have been found not guilty of manslaughter and aggravated assault. Const. Jessica Brown and Cpl. Randy Stenger were charged after the 2018 shooting of Clayton Crawford near Whitecourt, northwest of Edmonton. A jury heard that the two officers shot Crawford 10 times. Whitecourt RCMP…


RCMP Had Other Large Contract With China-Linked Company in 2019 for Wireless Antennas

The federal government announced on Dec. 8 it was suspending an RCMP contract for radio frequency filter equipment with a China-linked company, but RCMP wireless infrastructure already features hundreds of thousands worth of radio antennas from the same company, contract data shows. The contract that was suspended was for the sum of $549,637 and was…


Alberta Police Reform Could Bring Civilian Oversight

Legislation tabled in Alberta Thursday could make sweeping changes in the province’s policing, including the creation of an independent agency to handle complaints against police. The Police Amendment Act is a broad effort to make the first major changes to the province’s Police Act since the 1980s. Those changes would also require police to develop…


Alberta Police Reform Could Bring More Civilian Oversight

Legislation tabled in Alberta Thursday could make sweeping changes in the province’s policing, including the creation of an independent agency to handle complaints against police. The Police Amendment Act is a broad effort to make the first major changes to the province’s Police Act since the 1980s. It would allow Minister of Public Safety and…


RCMP Contract With China-Linked Company for Communications Equipment Is Suspended

A day after it was reported that the RCMP has a contract for communications equipment with a China-linked company, the federal government says the contract has now been suspended. “I can confirm the contract between RCMP and Sinclair Technologies has been suspended,” said Audrey Champoux, press secretary to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino. CBC News first…