Tag: RCMP

RCMP Investigating PM, Other Officials Over SNC-Lavalin Affair

The RCMP has reportedly opened an investigation into allegations that the prime minister and members of his cabinet obstructed justice by pressuring then-Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to stop the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin in 2018, according to an access to information request filed by Democracy Watch. In response to the Access to Information Act request filed on…


No Time for ‘Games’: BC Solicitor General Gives Deadline for Surrey Policing Report

British Columbia’s solicitor general accuses the City of Surrey of playing games around its decision to retain the RCMP as its policing agency. Mike Farnworth issued a statement saying he became concerned last Wednesday after learning a report on the future of policing in the city that hadn’t been shared with the province was nevertheless…


Premier, RCMP and Health Official to Hold News Conference About Manitoba Bus Crash

Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson will speak with reporters today about last week’s bus crash that killed 15 people and left 10 others seriously injured. The news conference will take place at RCMPD Division headquarters in Winnipeg at noon local time, and Stefanson will be joined by Supt. Rob Lasson, officer in charge of major crime…


Semi Had Right of Way in Horrific Manitoba Crash: RCMP

The horrific crash in Manitoba that left 15 seniors dead happened when a passenger bus drove into the path of an oncoming semi truck on the Trans-Canada highway. “We have obtained video footage of the collision that was seized from the semi truck trailer,” said RCMP Superintendent Rob Lasson. “This video indicates that the bus…


Manitoba RCMP, Community Leaders Look to Saskatchewan After Deadly Crash

The mayor of Dauphin, Man., and a city councillor in Humboldt, Sask., are members of a club that no one wants to belong to: community leaders responding to unimaginable and unexpected tragedies. Fifteen people were killed and 10 more were sent to hospital Thursday after a firey crash between a bus full of seniors en…


Surrey, BC, to Stay With RCMP Over Independent Force, Costing the City Millions

The RCMP is on its way back as the police force in Metro Vancouver’s largest city after Surrey council voted to dump its municipal force, rejecting a provincial government recommendation that came with a $150-million transition offer, the mayor said Friday. Brenda Locke, acknowledging the decision will cost the city “millions,” said she has spoken…


BC Border Agents Find 6,300 Kg of Meth, Including Largest Single Seizure to Date

The Canada Border Services Agency says it has confiscated more than 6,300 kilograms of methamphetamine in British Columbia over the last six months, including the largest ever single seizure of the drug. The agency says the drugs were found in four Metro Vancouver seizures in jugs labelled as canola oil and destined for export to…


‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Facing Additional Charges in Alberta

Police in Alberta have issued warrants for Nathan Chasing Horse, a former actor in the movie “Dances With Wolves,” for nine charges including sexual exploitation, sexual assault and removing a child from Canada under the age of 16. Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service said in a news release that the investigation has spanned several years with…


RCMP Shut Down Operations at Alleged Chinese Police Stations, House Committee Hears

Senior RCMP officials told a House of Commons committee on June 13 that the force has shut down the operations of several locations across Canada that were reported to be secret Chinese police stations. “Based on the work that’s done, the overt action that the RCMP has taken on the multiple sites, we are comfortable…


RCMP Says Trafficking Victims in London, Ont., Ring Held in ‘Inhumane Conditions’

The RCMP says the victims of an alleged human trafficking operation in London, Ont., were held in conditions that “bordered on inhumane.” The Mounties have said that two suspects in their 40s have been arrested and are facing numerous human trafficking charges that include withholding documents, possession of property obtained by crime and conspiracy to…