List Of Controversies Involving The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has a history dating back to 1873 and has been involved in several high-profile controversies during that time, particularly in the 1970s.
Read more about List Of Controversies Involving The Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Early Controversies, Killing of Inuit Sled Dogs, Inquiries, Theft of Dynamite, Break-ins and Bombing, Barn-burning Scandal, Theft of PQ Members List, Intelligence Mole, Excessive Use of Force At The 1997 APEC Summit, Killing of Darren Varley, Torture Scandal: The Stories of Ahmad El Maati, Abdullah Almalki and Maher Arar, Pension Fund Scandal, Const. Justin Harris and The Prince George RCMP, Ian Bush Incident, Robert Dziekański Taser Incident, Royal Inland Hospital Taser Incident, Allegation of Political Bias Against Insite, Catherine Galliford Claim of Sexual Harassment
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to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
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—Charlotte Bunch (b. 1944)
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—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)
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“But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)