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The decision adds to the Supreme Court of Canada’s body of work dealing with entrapment, the idea that police should not randomly test people’s virtue, and that the state should be limited in how it can manipulate people for the purpose of scoring convictions.

Nunavut RCMP are considering whether to use body cameras as tension grows between police officers and the largely Inuit communities they serve.

“This theft, however, is in a category of its own, and is especially low. This was an epic loser move,” Cpl. Sean Bulford, Quadra Island RCMP detachment commander, on the robbery of a memorial plaque from the Quadra Legion's cenotaph during a recent spike in property thefts.

An Indigenous leader is telling the RCMP to stay off reserve land after armed officers were dispatched to break up a sacred ceremony.

A former neighbour of the gunman behind last month's mass shooting in Nova Scotia says she reported his domestic violence and cache of firearms to the RCMP years ago and ended up leaving the community herself due to fears of his violence.

Social-distancing measures during the pandemic can put women into even tighter quarters with their abuser, further limiting their ability to reach out for help, said Diane Palmer, of the Campbell River and North Island Transition Society.

RCMP say 17 people are dead, including one of their officers, after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser went on a rampage across northern Nova Scotia in one of the deadliest killing sprees in Canadian history.

Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is raising concern about temporary foreign workers arriving in Canada to work on farms, saying he believes the quarantine rules for these workers are inadequate.

The head of the Canadian Police Association says he is worried about the increasing number of COVID-19 threats officers face while responding to calls.

The federal anti-money laundering centre is exploring artificial intelligence and machine learning to help sort through a deluge of data in the hunt for hidden dirty cash.

The G20 summit of international leaders in Toronto a decade ago saw the largest mass arrests in Canadian history. More recently, controversies have erupted over how police and security agencies have handled anti-energy protests.

An Alberta energy services company says its management accepts full responsibility for a decal the business distributed bearing its logo beneath a sexually suggestive cartoon appearing to depict 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped in front of cameras last week to declare that barricades on rail lines and other major transportation routes had to come down, the move had been decided almost two days before.

Bonnie George walked out of the Office of the Wet'suwet'en holding her hands up in the air in a triumphant gesture.

RCMP in central Alberta say a decal that appears to show a well-known teenage climate activist in a sexual act is not child pornography.