Langley Mayor Peter Fassbender says negotiations are complete, an agreement for continuing the RCMP role in British Columbia is done. Attorney General Shirley Bond – the person who promised to slash top salaries at BC Ferries – agrees progress has been made but says negotiators are still working on resolving issues.
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G20 investigation: RCMP spies vs conspirators
> The JIG is up. An RCMP-led Joint Intelligence Group comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they call “one of the largest domestic intelligence operations in Canadian history”. Constable Bindo Showan of the Ontario Provincial Police, one
Continue readingRCMP Contract
An open letter to Shirley Bond BC Attorney General Re: RCMP Contract Ms Bond. It is my understanding that you have no plans to consider recent events in policing in British Columbia before you render your decision on renewing the RCMP contract in BC. The events I refer to, in
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Stephen Harper Inches Canada Even Closer Toward a Dictatorship
Within weeks of being elected in 2006, Stephen Harper limited access to his government, by both the media and the public. He closed down a searchable database that provided easier access to information, and forbid any questioning of his ministers, without his approval, and even then questions had to be
Continue readingImpolitical: The HGRCMP
A new public relations protocol comes into being for the RCMP and it is leaked to the Toronto Star: “Government puts tighter leash on RCMP public statements.” So what are the Harper government inappropriately up to with the RCMP? A lengthy excerpt but warranted: The Star obtained a copy of
Continue readingQuelle surprise! Harper muzzles top dog Mountie.
It’s not enough to exhibit iron-fisted control over his own party members and the media but Mr. Harper is making sure that theConservative message is also dictated to the RCMP. Self-censorship is almost tolerable in the ranks of one’s own party but muzzling the RCMP is a crime against all
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: A gun registry case for mandatory minimum penalties
The Toronto Star is reporting that the Harper government has reinforced its efforts to strip Canada’s national police service of its independence. Removing the RCMP’s communications independence is the just another indication yet that Conservatives want a police force that serves the party and not the people. We were immediately
Continue readingQuelle surprise! Harper muzzles top dog Mountie.
It’s not enough to exhibit iron-fisted control over his own party members and the media but Mr. Harper is making sure that the Conservative message is also dictated to the RCMP. Self-censorship is almost tolerable in the ranks of one’s own party but muzzling the RCMP is a crime against
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: On Global Day of Action, Occupy Ottawa flexes underrated muscle
By Obert Madondo Even as the threat of eviction from Confederation Park looms larger, the Occupy Ottawa movement is getting stronger, says Arun Smith. Yesterday, the movement held simultaneous marches before four key Ottawa landmarks: …Read More
Continue readingHerman Cain – serial sexual harasser? That’s nothing. Try being a female Mountie.
– Your life will be a living hell. Welcome to the famous RCMP, home to sexual harassment and thuggery. “Everything that came out of his [a supervisor’s] mouth was sexual,” Galliford said. “If I had a dime for every time one of my …
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: John Ivison and the Case for a Canadian Foreign Intelligence Agency
Today’s example of a woefully uninformed journalist spouting off on a subject of crucial national importance is John Ivison, whose Monday column in the National Post is what presently passes for “balanced” commentary on what Ivison says is a renewed push by the government to transform the Canadian Security Intelligence Service into a foreign intelligence […]
Continue readingHerman Cain – serial sexual harasser? That’s nothing. Try being a female Mountie.
Your life will be a living hell. Welcome to the famous RCMP, home to sexual harassment and thuggery.
"Everything that came out of his [a supervisor’s] mouth was sexual," Galliford said. "If I had a dime for every time one of my bosses asked me to sit on his knee, I’d be on a yacht in the Bahamas right now."
And we wonder why our police forces feel free to abuse citizens when the top enforcers
Peace, order and good government, eh?: "an arab running around"
The fact that Abdullah Almalki was "an arab running around" in Canada was enough to eventually get him detained and tortured in Syria. That and a little guilt by association. Almalki was one of three Canadians whose cases were the focus of the Iacobucci inquiry in 2008. All three men were detained in Syria based on information supplied by Canadian officials. Yesterday Almaki released documents obtained through an Access to Information request and the Montreal Gazette has a story on it. Here are the reasons why Almalki originally came to be regarded as a person of interest. Almalki had first come under investigation by CSIS in 1998 when some of his company’s communications equipment was found in the hands of the Taliban. He met with CSIS and explained that his export company shipped store-bought equipment to a Pakistani firm, Microelectronics, and that he didn’t control what happened to it after that point. Which seems straightforward enough. But unfortunately Almalki had made the mistake of knowing the wrong people….
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Wiebo Ludwig, fierce and ailing at 69, brings his inescapable star power to Edmonton
Wiebo Ludwig, Saturday night in Edmonton. Below: John Brown, in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington; David York, director and writer of the NFB production Wiebo’s War; Richard Boonstra.Something about Wiebo Ludwig that doesn’t quite come th…
Continue readingMounties try to strong arm BC
I say, screw ’em. If you’re a law enforcement agency and you try to ‘blackmail’ a province, you can go fuck yourself.Hardball federal negotiators have demanded that B.C. accept Ottawa’s last offer for a new 20-year policing deal by Nov. 30, or RCMP s…
Continue readingNo freedom of assembly in Harperica
Dawg had a timely post yesterday on the scandalous conduct of the NYPD during the Occupy Wall Street protests.To that, add this “long line of Canadians being arrested for protecting Canada” on Parliament Hill today:Pic tweeted by @thevillagegreen
Continue readingImpolitical: RCMP brought into middle of PEI election
“Ottawa calls for probe of PEI immigration program.” The timing of all of this is suspect: The federal government is calling in the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency to investigate allegations of fraud and bribery in a PEI immigration program …
Continue readingLocal Government-staying within the law
I must bring you part two of Priscilla‘s series on local government. She brings insight and knowledge into this level of governent and how they operate in BC. I think it is imperative that we examine every level of government and how they operate, after CSIS astonishing revelation that municipal governments in BC . . . → Read More: Local Government-staying within the law
Continue readingLeftist Jab: RCMP "Suspensions": The Unanswered Questions
I blogged about it here as this isn’t being investigated by anyone outside of La Presse.Pierre-André Normandin is following up with his story here. Here are the highlights:The NDP and Bloc members reacted to the story and were mainly upset by the fact…
Continue readingLeftist Jab: How To Get Suspended From The RCMP
La Presse, by virtue of the Access to Information Act, has the answer!There are 22,000 RCMP officers in Canada. 396 officers behaved so reprehensibly that they were suspended from active duty since the year 2000. So what’s does it take to suspended fro…
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