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May 2, 2024
Why the RCMP Won’t Face Consequences for Dale Culver’s Death
Prosecutors made the ‘extremely rare’ move to consult an independent expert — one who’s been accused of bias. His report toppled the case. Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives in Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on X @amandajfollett. The Tyee: On July 18, 2017, shortly after 10 p.m., Dale Culver lay face...
April 26, 2024
BC’s Police Watchdog Wants to Know Why Officers Aren’t Being Charged
The government should review the BC Prosecution Service’s decisions in police cases, says investigation office head Ron MacDonald. The Tyee: The head of B.C.’s police watchdog wants the government to review the BC Prosecution Service’s handling of his office’s recommendations for criminal charges against officers. Ron MacDonald, the Independent Investigations Office of BC chief civilian...
April 17, 2024
In Vanderhoof, Women Are Increasingly Reluctant to Seek Help from the RCMP
Victims of domestic violence are often dismissed and sometimes met with police brutality, advocates say. Kerry Mercer remembers in vivid detail the day last November that police officers in Vanderhoof broke her leg. Mercer was returning from meeting her teenage son on the street between the home she had previously shared with her ex-husband and...
November 3, 2023
Saik’uz First Nation calls for help after 2 people disappear in matter of months
Jay Raphael and Chelsey Quaw have both gone missing from a small community along Highway of Tears CBC News: First Nations leaders are calling on the RCMP, media and the public to do more to help find two people who have gone missing from the Saik’uz First Nation over the past year. Jay Preston Raphael, 28, and Chelsey Amanda Quaw...
March 10, 2023
Documents Reveal ‘Rural Policing’ Money Is Going to the RCMP’s Community – Industry Response Group (C-IRG)
An RCMP unit under investigation by a federal commissioner will receive 15 per cent of the funding promised for safer communities. The Tyee: A portion of the $230 million promised last fall by the BC NDP to bolster rural police detachments and make communities safer is earmarked for a controversial RCMP unit tasked with policing...
February 24, 2023
B.C. orders probe into allegations RCMP dropped ball investigating abuse of Indigenous girls in Prince George
Province launching ‘out-of-jurisdiction’ investigation into allegations report says went largely ignored CBC News: The provincial government has ordered an external investigation after an independent report found the RCMP failed to properly investigate what one officer described as potentially “egregious” allegations that Mounties had abused and harassed Indigenous girls in Prince George, B.C., decades ago. A statement on Thursday confirmed the...
January 9, 2023
RCMP has spent nearly $50M on policing pipeline, logging standoffs in B.C.
Cash for operations on 3 resource projects flowed through Community-Industry Response Group CBC News · Posted: Jan 06, 2023 1:59 PM ET | Last Updated: January 6 CBC News: An RCMP squad charged with policing resistance to resource extraction in British Columbia spent nearly $50 million enforcing injunctions obtained by the petroleum and forestry sectors in its first...