Bomb Detonated At Saskatoon Provincial Court House

Saskatoon police say the call about an explosion at the court house came in after 11 p.m. on Wednesday night.

According to police, some minor damage to the exterior of the building has been reported and there are no injuries.

Members of the police, including the SPS Explosive Disposal Unit and a bomb detection trained SPS K9 team and of the fire department were at the scene after midnight.

Saskatoon resident Scott Dempster says he witnessed the explosion after stopping with a friend to examine what they originally thought was a fire outside the courthouse while driving up 19th Street around 10:55 p.m.

He said they pulled over and were getting off the phone with 911 when: “All of a sudden, it was like a ‘bang.’ ”

Video: Justice - Toronto Police Officer Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison For Fatally Shooting A Teen!

Three years after Const. James Forcillo shot and killed Sammy Yatim on a streetcar, the judge has sentenced him to 6 years in prison. A lawyer for Toronto Const. James Forcillo appeared in a Toronto courtroom Thursday afternoon to outline his case for appealing the officer's conviction for the attempted murder of Sammy Yatim, the 18-year-old shot dead aboard a streetcar in July 2013. See video below;

Lol! Nova Scotia Canadian Police Force RCMP Version of Drake Hotline Bling

How Come! Canadian Police Force, RCMP Misconduct Jumps By 158%

The number of misconduct investigations the RCMP launched into their own staff went up by 158 per cent in 2015 over the previous year, leaving 56 officers facing possible dismissal over allegations of serious misconduct.

Details of the development are contained in a document posted to the RCMP website called Results and Respect in the RCMP Workplace.

The document appears to be a means of updating the public on how the national police force has followed through on the findings and recommendations from the Mounties' Gender-Based Assessment and Gender and Respect Action Plan, in 2012 and 2013 respectively.

Ontario: Sisters stole $1,600 worth of baby formula from Walmart

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Three sisters are accused of stealing more than $1,600 worth of baby formula from a Walmart store on Valentine's Day and police allege they attempted to take more of the product from other locations.

Durham Regional Police say the alleged incidents began at a Walmart on Baldwin Street South in Whitby, where two women tried to leave the store without paying for more than $1,200 worth of baby formula on Saturday. An alarm went off and they fled to a car, which was being driven by a third woman. The formula was left behind, police say.

Wounded Police Officer David Wynn Dies From His Injuries In Hospital

RCMP Const. David Wynn has died in hospital after being shot while attending a call in St. Alberta, Alta

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RCMP say an officer who died Wednesday was being proactive in a stolen truck investigation when he and another officer were shot inside a casino.

Const. David Matthew Wynn should be remembered as a great police officer and citizen, RCMP Assistant Commissioner Marlin Degrand told reporters after it was announced that the 42-year-old had died in hospital.

Degrand said Wynn was taking the initiative during the slow early morning hours last Saturday, checking out vehicle licence plates in the parking lot of the Apex Casino in St. Albert, a bedroom community north of Edmonton.

Alberta RCMP officer shot while investigating a car theft dies

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An Alberta Mountie who was shot in the head while investigating a vehicle theft in a community just outside Edmonton last weekend has died.

RCMP say Const. David Matthew Wynn, a husband and father of three sons, died in an Edmonton hospital this morning.

They say the 42-year-old officer never regained consciousness after he and an auxiliary officer, Const. Derek Bond, were wounded at a casino in St. Albert early Saturday morning.
Bond was struck in the right arm and torso, but was released from hospital several hours after the shooting.

Deputy RCMP Commissioner Marianne Ryan says in a statement that the force has lost a dedicated member in the line of duty.

Mounties say there will be a regimental funeral for Wynn in the Edmonton area, with details to follow. RIP David

RCMP need more protection after St. Albert shooting, says Kash Heed

The shooting of RCMP officers Derek Bond and David Wynn in St. Albert, Alta., highlights the need for more protection for Mounties, according to B.C.'s former solicitor general.

“We need to outfit our police officers, give them the tactics, give them the training … to ensure they go home each and every day,” said Kash Heed, also a former chief of the West Vancouver Police Department.

Aux. Const. Bond and Const. Wynn were injured while trying to arrest a man in a casino early Saturday morning.

Supreme Court Canada to rule whether RCMP can unionize

The Supreme Court of Canada is seen in Ottawa. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press

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The Supreme Court of Canada gave rank-and-file RCMP members a major morale boost Friday when it affirmed their right to engage in meaningful collective bargaining.

The high court did not explicitly state that the Mounties have the right to form a union, but the justices effectively cleared a path to that possibility.

The landmark 6-1 ruling gives the federal government a year to create a new labour relations scheme, setting the stage for talks among RCMP members, Commissioner Bob Paulson and the Harper government.

The Supreme Court overturned a previous ruling of its own from the 1990s which upheld an exclusion that barred the Mounties from forming unions like federal public servants, who gained the right to collective bargaining in the late 1960s.

Indian Father Attempts to Bury Daughter Alive Because He Disliked Having a Female Child

Indian police have arrested a man for allegedly trying to bury his 9-year old daughter alive in the north eastern state of Tripura, police said on Saturday.

A local police official in Sipahijala District, Uttam Bhaumick narrated the incident to newsmen.

Neighbours alerted the police after they saw Abul Hussain trying to bury his daughter in a pit on Friday in the backyard of his residence in Putia village in Sipahijala district.

Toronto police get help from US officials on mosque murder

CBC- At Friday prayers, two men arrive at Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque to worship. The Somali-Canadian mosque is not where they regularly pray, but they are welcomed as family.

The men are strangers not only to the mosque, but to Toronto. They're police officers from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Mohamed Abdullahi and Abdiwahab Ali are the first Somali refugees in the U.S. to become police officers.

Their neighbourhood in Minneapolis was crime ridden in the late 2000s. Dozens of young men had also left the city to join foreign extremist groups.

RCMP to act on all recommendations in Moncton shooting report

CBC - RCMP to act on all recommendations in Moncton shooting report

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The RCMP is promising to learn from the Moncton shootings on June 4 that killed three officers and wounded two others.

On Friday, the RCMP said all of the recommendations in a review by retired assistant commissioner Alphonse MacNeil will be acted upon, and promised to keep the public updated on their progress.

The MacNeil Review includes 64 recommendations.

In the RCMP response, Assistant Commissioner Bob Paulson says deadly threats to police are not going to go away.

"It is our obligation — our duty — to make sure that we can be as prepared as humanly possible to meet these threats, having regard for who we are and where we live," Paulson said.

It appears photos of black men used for police target practice...

The use of photos of real black men for target practice is being defended. Could this be a racist stunt by the american police

Former Montreal Canadiens star Guy Lafleur suing Quebec Crown, police for $2M

Montreal Canadiens hockey legend Guy Lafleur leaves the courtroom for the lunch break in his lawsuit against the Montreal police and Quebec's attorney-general in Montreal, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. (Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

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Former Canadiens superstar Guy Lafleur is seeking more than $2 million from the Crown and Montreal police in legal proceedings that began Monday.

Lafleur testified in 2007 at his son Mark's criminal case and was the subject of an arrest warrant in 2008 when the Crown deemed he had given contradictory testimony.

He was found guilty in 2009 before the conviction was overturned on appeal a year later.

Lafleur, 63, is arguing the arrest warrant was exaggerated and unjustified and that his life has been adversely affected by the criminal case against him.

Canadian R&B Singer The Weeknd Arrested In Vegas For Punching Police Officer

ET- R&B artist The Weeknd was arrested in Las Vegas on Saturday for allegedly punching a police officer.

Authorities say the Canadian singer (born Abel Tesfaye) was detained after being involved in a 4am fight inside the Cromwell Hotel. After the scuffling parties were separated, A police officer pulled Tesfaye into an elevator, only to receive a blow to the head.

The alleged punch resulted in Tesfaye being taken to jail, where he was charged with battery of a protected person. Shortly after posting bail, he uploaded a photo to Instagram (below) with the caption, "Escaped from Las Vegas."

The 24-year-old Toronto native rose to international fame last fall courtesy of Love Me Harder, a chart-topping duet with Ariana Grande.

Police arrest third Ottawa man on terror charges linked to Larmond brothers

Pedestrian make their way across Parliament Hill in Ottawa on October 31, 2013. CP

Joe Lofaro MetroThe RCMP have arrested a third Ottawa man on terrorism-related charges.

Suliman Mohamed, 21, was charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group following an arrest made by the RCMP’s Ottawa Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET).

Police say this arrest is linked to the Jan. 9 arrest of twin brothers Ashton and Carlos Larmond. The brothers lived in the Overbrook area of Ottawa and were the subject of a lengthy national security investigation by the RCMP.

Because of the purported link between the three men, Mohamed was also charged with conspiracy to participate in terrorist activity with the other two accused.

61 yr-old man accused of trying to abduct baby at Vancouver grocery store

Police allege that the man tried to forcibly remove an infant from a stroller while the baby’s mother shopped in a Vancouver grocery store

CTV - A 61-year-old man is in custody and facing charges after he attempted to snatch a baby out of a stroller in a grocery store, Vancouver Police allege.

The incident occurred at Donald's Market in Vancouver shortly before noon on Saturday.
Police allege that the man tried to forcibly remove an infant from a stroller while the baby’s mother shopped.

Charlie Hebdo! Police Chief In Charge Of Paris Attacks Commits Suicide

A French police commissioner has reportedly taken his own life after meeting the relatives of a victim murdered in the Charlie Hebdo massacre last Wednesday.

Helric Fredou, 45, shot himself in his office with his police-issue gun on Wednesday night in Limoges, a city in central France, according to France 3.

Charlie Hebdo | Police Officer Executed In The Paris Attack Revealed

The police officer whose terrifying execution by two masked gunmen was caught on camera in Paris yesterday January 7th, has been identified as Ahmed Merabet, a married 42-year-old Muslim. He was a cycle police officer who was assigned to the Paris neighbourhood where Charlie Hebdo’s office is located. He was one of the 12 people killed in the terrorist massacre...

Egyptian police man killed by bomb he's trying to defuse

The right pic was taken a few seconds after a brave Egyptian police officer was killed while trying to defuse a bomb left outside a petrol station on a busy road in Cairo, Egypt yesterday. The officer, dressed in protective gear (left) was filmed on mobile phone as he approached the bomb and filmed also as the bomb exploded in his hands a few minutes later (right).

Passersby rushed to his side after the explosion but he was already gone. A terror group named Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) later claimed on Twitter that they were responsible for the attack and had been targeting police officers at a nearby station. These photos were shared on Twitter.