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A Saskatchewan woman says she is scared for her life after she was brutally arrested by three RCMP officers after a trip to the local emergency room to get her two-year-old son’s arm examined at the end of December.
Emily Kammermayer, a member of Lac La Ronge Indian Band, is facing multiple criminal charges including assault with a weapon and assaulting a police officer, in what RCMP called a physical altercation between officers during her arrest at the La Ronge Health Centre on Dec. 29.
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GAO: Design Delays on Columbia Sub Program Leading to Construction Delays, Cost Increases
Artist’s rendering of the Columbia-class SSBN submarine. US Navy Image
The Government Accountability Office released a new report that warns Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine cost and schedule plans are at risk due to problems with a new digital design tool and cascading effects stemming from the design challenges.
The report – Columbia Class Submarine: Delivery Hinges on Timely and Quality Materials from an Atrophied Supplier Base – explains that Columbia program prime contractor “Electric Boat faces persistent problems with its design tool leading to cost increases and schedule delays during the design phase. Late completion of design products threatens to impede construction progress and indicates challenges in the Columbia class program’s abil
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The Trudeau government is investigating whether the extreme right-wing group the Proud Boys should be declared a terrorist organization. That is a legal decision. But there’s politics in it as well. The Liberals are trying to discomfit Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives by linking the party to extremists.
On the Proud Boys, “officials will be analyzing useful intelligence and evidence as that comes forward,” Mary-Liz Power, press secretary to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, said in a statement on Sunday.
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For Indigenous women, systemic racial bias in prison leaves many worse off than men
In the standardized tests that determine federal inmates’ paths to rehabilitation, Indigenous women are more likely than white women to get the worst scores – with long-lasting negative effects after their release Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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Patricia Whyte of Halifax and support dog Carl sit at the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia, where she is a peer support worker for vulnerable women and girls. She worries that prison officials gave her higher security classifications than she should have had because she is Indigenous.
The number of asylum seekers stranded at the border after trying to reach Canada has overwhelmed the resources of volunteers who used to hand out snacks and warm clothing at the end of Roxham Road. Photo: Elizabeth Hewitt
Dec 30, 2020 When Canada and the U.S. restricted travel across the border this spring, Canada also began turning back asylum seekers who tried to cross from the United States into Canada on foot, many of them at a dead-end road in northern Clinton County.
Yesterday, NCPR reported that some of those asylum-seekers Canadian police have returned to US border officers have ended up in U.S. immigration detention facilities, and even deported to the country they were fleeing. Those border agents have chosen to release others.