Saskatchewan’s new law: no more hiding in plain sight

How one family’s tragedy forced Canada to close a loophole — and why it matters in 2025

The night that still haunts Medicine Hat, Alberta, was April 23, 2006. 

A quiet spring evening in Medicine Hat, Marc Richardson, 42, and his wife Debra, 48, were stabbed to death in their basement. Their eight-year-old son, Tyler Jacob, was found upstairs—stabbed once in the chest. Court records later revealed his final words: “I’m scared. Please don’t.”

Trial of Jeremy Steinke

Originally published  Nov 20, 2008 

The alleged accomplice of Canada's youngest multiple murderer (whose identity is protected by the Youth Offenders Act) is on trial in the last quarter of 2008. Jeremy Steinke's trial got underway in Calgary, Alberta, in the third week of November and was expected to last three weeks. Last year in Medicine Hat, Alberta the girl was tried, convicted, and sentenced to between six and ten years in a psychiatric facility. Now the Crown is proceeding against Jeremy Steinke, 25 (23 at the time of the murders)

Is there a future in RCMP contract policing?

RETROSPECTIVE

RCMP contract police work includes directing traffic and so on in cities like Prince George BC

Commissioner William Elliot of the RCMP, who took the top job in the summer of 2007 (and became the first civilian appointed to the high post) made a major public appearance at the year’s end, Dec 14 07, to deliver a report on the national police service's governance structure and the need to address cultural changes within Canada's national corps of police officers.

Dealing with badly intoxicated and habitually miscreant individuals

RETROSPECTIVE 

Some people in society don't necessarily relate to each other too well, and the stratification is sometimes found between authorities and street people for instance, and between police and drunks. People like Kat Norris are working toward a just society and toward improving the fundamental street-level encounters in a stratified society like the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver because of this crucial communications gap.

Kohberger begins life sentence for the four dead he murdered

 What a mockery of justice is this man

Seems unfair Bryan Kohberger gets one life sentence for taking four lives the way he did. He should, in fact, have one less life for every life he took. To do the math on this, you take his life. Then you take it again, and again, and again. Now you're even. To make this happen, you can only try as many times as you have dead ones, until the last one, which you make him dead. To not unalive him four times in a row is to allow him to torment the survivor/loved ones around him. He is having more fun right now, then he did doing the killing,

 

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He is in what I would believe, the sweet spot of being a mass murderer. He has the means, motive and merely awaits an opportunity to do it again. I cannot think of another human being quite as lucky as this one, while he torments his vic's beloved families. It must be glee. I believe he is in the ecstasy of sadistic glee. It's like a drug with no side effects, he is just unbelievably happy all the time. I don't know why I think this. It's the news reel. It's the look on his face. It's the spectacle and his zeitgeist position in it. It is ironic he will survive the people today being tormented by his existence. This must be the greatest of all his joys. (Not to mention the sex!) https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Lpt7vJNgj/

Shocking footage of Islamic State violence in Canada

He seems nice. . . . Oh. Shit. I am never voting Liberal again

Sentencing in December

Latimer to MAID: A True Crime Legacy in Canada’s Euthanasia Debate

The story of Robert Latimer 

Euthanasia in Canada today is a busy government department

Originally published Jan 25, 2008  UPDATED

Organized Crime calls forth specialized police work

Rust never sleeps

Caleb Harrison and morbid coincidence

The year is 1972, the dialogue is terrific the film unfolds with twists superbly disguised, secrets spill. Sleuth a mystery thriller comes to a shocking climax as the pollen light shifts and freezes across the screen. It is mid-December and somewhere a call girl labours . . . Caleb Harrison is born. His death will form its own mystery.

Sammy Yatim killed on a street car by a cop

Forcillo convicted of attempted murder

 (second six shots, as Yatim was no longer a threat)

Those of us who have traveled on a streetcar seldom remember our brief interactions with the strangers who stare ahead glazy eyed, waiting for their next stop. The homeless man, the laces of his shoes untied, shivering as he unwraps the elastic band off a scrumpled ball of paper. The mother who comforts an overweight child grasping a take away bag. The woman who speaks loudly into her cellphone at a supposed husband who didn't return home last night. The business man who gives away his seat and the boy attached to his ipod who pretends to sleep. The green eyed teenager of small build surrounded by police as they yell into the street in aggressive tone, "Drop the knife, Drop the knife . . . ."