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Follow this link to read more about CBC’s investigation into Justin Bone’s interactions with law enforcement. Edmonton’s mayor is demanding that Alberta’s solicitor general and the city’s police commission conduct reviews into actions by police in the days before two men were beaten to death in the Chinatown district. Amarjeet Sohi’s calls for …
Read More »Dutch police witness testifies about investigation into accused in Amanda Todd case
A Dutch police officer who investigated the man on trial for ‘sextorting’ Amanda Todd testified Thursday as prosecutors began introducing a body of evidence which they claim ties the accused to the harassment of the B.C. teenager. Appearing through a video link from the Netherlands, Wybren Vandermeer said he found unique identifiers linking digital devices to …
Read More »Jan. 6 hearings air violent, previously unseen footage of rioters beating police, breaching Capitol
The U.S. House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol laid the blame firmly on Donald Trump Thursday night, saying the assault was hardly spontaneous but an “attempted coup” and a direct result of the defeated president’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. With a never-before-seen 12-minute …
Read More »Brazil police probe ties to illegal fishing in case of missing British journalist
Brazilian police investigating the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in the Amazon rainforest are focusing on people involved in illegal fishing and poaching in Indigenous lands, three officers told Reuters. Two of the officers are Amazonas state police detectives directly involved in the case, while the other is …
Read More »N.L. police chartered $91K flight for accused killer banned from flying commercial
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary chartered a private flight to get accused murderer Sheldon Hibbs back to St. John’s from Calgary in March, according to documents obtained by CBC News. The force said he had been banned from flying commercial. Hibbs, 27, was arrested in Calgary on March 11 on a Canada-wide warrant for second-degree …
Read More »Military has tried to transfer 62 sexual offence files to civilian police — but half were rejected
Military police in Canada have tried to transfer 62 sexual assault cases to civilian police forces since last fall — but about half of those files have been declined and sent back. The Canadian Armed Forces released new figures in response to requests from CBC News and the release of a …
Read More »A ‘watershed moment’? Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., face hearing after botched Indigenous death probe
Nearly seven years after the body of Stacy Debungee was found in a river flowing through Thunder Bay, Ont., disciplinary hearings for two officers involved in the deficient sudden death investigation are set to begin today. Staff Sgt. Shawn Harrison and Sgt. Shawn Whipple are both facing Police Service Act …
Read More »Police encounter people with pellet guns ‘with regularity across Canada,’ criminologist says
Investigators probing the fatal police shooting of a man in Toronto Thursday will have to factor in the recent mass murder at a school in Texas, and also encounters Canadian police have with people carrying pellet guns that look like the real thing, a criminologist says. Encounters with weapons that appear lethal but aren’t “occur with regularity …
Read More »Suspect shot dead by Toronto police after schools locked down over reports of man with rifle
A man is dead after being shot by police, putting an end to afternoon lockdowns at multiple schools across the Port Union area of Scarborough. However, police remain tight-lipped about what actually happened near Maberley Crescent and East Avenue. Toronto Police Chief James Ramer spoke from the scene for roughly …
Read More »Police took 3½ hours to visit an apartment complex after shots were fired. Residents want to know why
Jordan Tobin bolted upright from his sleep when he heard a loud bang in the early hours of Thursday morning. Then he heard another one. And another. And about a half-dozen more after that. When the loud bangs abruptly gave way to the screeching tires of a fleeing vehicle, Tobin sprinted …
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