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By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted December 22, 2022 9:39 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size A third trial has been ordered for a retired Mountie who was twice convicted of sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl in Manitoba. Read more: Girl, 11, sexually assaulted after walking …
Read More »Top Mountie, PM’s intelligence adviser testifying this week before Emergencies Act inquiry
The head of the RCMP and the prime minister’s national security and intelligence adviser will testify before the Emergencies Act inquiry this week. The Public Order Emergency Commission was established to determine if the federal government was justified in its decision to, for the first time ever, invoke the Emergencies Act — …
Read More »RCMP commissioner, former top N.S. Mountie set to testify at public inquiry
The two RCMP officers who held the top jobs in Nova Scotia, and the entire force, during the mass shooting in 2020 are set to testify at the public inquiry into the massacre this week. Across Monday and part of Tuesday, the Mass Casualty Commission leading the inquiry is expected …
Read More »High-ranking Mountie insists Lucki pressed him about releasing gun details after N.S. shooting
The high-ranking Nova Scotia RCMP officer at the centre of a controversy over possible political interference by RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki following the 2020 mass shooting is doubling down on his allegations. RCMP Chief Supt. Darren Campbell told a House of Commons committee Tuesday that he recalls Lucki saying during an April 28, 2020 …
Read More »Mountie who showed sexual photo to assault victim during investigation got his job back
A Mountie who was fired after he showed a revealing photo of himself to an assault victim and exchanged sexual texts with her during an investigation fought successfully to get his job back by arguing he was denied a proper hearing. An adjudicator pointed to flaws in the way the case against Const. Andrew …
Read More »Mountie has ‘impression’ Liberal government interfered with N.S. mass shooting probe
A senior Mountie testified Thursday he believes political inference was behind RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s determination to have police release details on the guns used in the Nova Scotia mass shooting. Chief Supt. Chris Leather made the comment at the public inquiry into the rampage that took 22 lives on …
Read More »‘We failed you’: Senior Mountie apologizes to families of mass shooting victims
After two days of intense questioning of how RCMP decisions were made during the mass shooting of April 2020, Chief Supt. Darren Campbell ended his testimony at the public inquiry in tears, apologizing to the families of 22 victims who died. As he broke down, Campbell said it was the …
Read More »6 people allege former Mountie sexually assaulted them as teenagers
WARNING: This story contains details of abuse. When Graeme Willson first called CBC News more than a decade ago, he came across as a broken man. Some of his thoughts were jumbled and rambly, but his central memories and message seemed crystal clear. In 1982, when he was a teenager …
Read More »Mountie who wrote that RCMP head interfered in N.S. investigation ‘came to his own conclusions,’ says Blair
Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair is casting doubt on the Nova Scotia Mountie who suggested Commissioner Brenda Lucki interfered in the investigation into the largest mass shooting in Canadian history. The former public safety minister’s comments come as the political firestorm around the head of the national police force spills into …
Read More »Mountie who once pulled over ‘infuriated’ gunman critical of mass shooting response
It was one of a handful of interactions after more than a thousand traffic stops that stood out. An RCMP constable testified Monday that in February 2020 he swore at Gabriel Wortman to get back in his vehicle after pulling him over for speeding and the 51-year-old immediately presented as …
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