As a Communist Party member in Calgary in the early 1940s, Frank Hadesbeck performed clerical work at the party office, printed leaflets and sold books. But he also had tasks his party comrades could know nothing about: snooping on mail, copying phone numbers from scratch pads and rummaging through waste baskets. Hadesbeck, known to his […]

When the organizer of the We Unify Reclaiming Canada event contacted officials about booking the Victoria Conference Centre, he touted invitees from across the political spectrum, including liberal luminaries such as Amal Clooney, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C.’s NDP Premier David Eby, movie stars and more. Jonathan Bower told the sales director of the city-owned […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The shooter at a religious school in Wisconsin had two handguns with her but used only one in the attack that killed a teacher and a student and wounded six others, the city’s police chief said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday. Police were still investigating why the […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Bahamas’ police commissioner has resigned after a sergeant and two officers were recently indicted in the U.S. in what federal authorities describe as a case of massive drug trafficking. The Bahamas’ prime minister, Philip Brave Davis, announced on Wednesday that Clayton Fernander was stepping down, noting that he […]

Service fees charged by the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service are set to increase for the first time since 2011, following the approval of a proposal initially introduced last month. The fee hikes aim to offset rising labor costs. In alignment with an annual inflation rate of approximately 2 per cent, the police board approved […]

The RCMP have begun rolling out body-worn cameras to be used by frontline officers when responding to a call. Staff Sergeant Ryan Hoetmer says there was a pilot project for the cameras in the Parkland detachment, and those officers have had their cameras for six months. Now that the RCMP are beginning the deployment, the […]

Peterborough police data show calls to addresses within 200 metres of the city’s consumption and treatment site have increased since it  opened in 2022, but workers note the nature of those calls is changing. Details  obtained through a freedom of information request, however, do not  specify the reasons officers were needed and police did not […]

By the end of December, most frontline RCMP officers in Whitehorse will be wearing body cameras, according to Christine Grant, the project manager for the body worn camera program in the Yukon.   Body-worn cameras are being rolled out to RCMP officers across the country, as part of a national deployment. According to the RCMP’s body-worn […]

Winkler police are again warning residents to be vigilant, as some continue to lose money to fraudsters. In their most recent crime report, the Winkler police said they received multiple reports of scams and attempted scams in the area between Oct. 21 and Nov. 2. In one incident, police say a woman received several texts […]

In effort to increase transparency in policing and improve accountability, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada’s federal police force, will soon be equipped with body-worn cameras. Frontline general duty officers that work in the communities of: Ucluelet, Ahousaht, Tofino, Mission, Prince George, Cranbrook and Kamloops will be amongst the first to start recording evidence from […]

The percentage of Indigenous inmates in federal women’s prisons has risen steadily over the last 20 years, hitting about 50 per cent overall and at least 72.3 per cent in Edmonton, the IJF has found. “With our federal prisons designated for women having 50 per cent of the people incarcerated identifying as Indigenous, that represents […]

After serving as interim police chief for more than one year, Don MacLean was sworn in as the first permanent African Nova Scotian chief of the Halifax Regional Police on Wednesday morning.  Speaking to a room of past and present Halifax police and RCMP officers, city councillors, and members of the board of police commissioners, […]