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The British Columbia government says it has implemented all seven recommendations made by a coroner’s jury at the inquest into the killing of a man by police in Port Hardy five years ago.
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MDC, a national distributor of law enforcement equipment and supplies in Canada, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. During the company’s national sales conference last year one of the major topics was how to celebrate this milestone and team members noted they wanted to invest more in their local communities, specifically with first responders in training. MDC has allocated the marketing budget for 2020 to supporting Canada’s next generation of first responders by setting up 11 scholarship awards and bursaries at colleges across the country to date.
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The past few months have been difficult, to say the least, for policing in Canada – and indeed globally, writes Joel A. Johnston, a use of force subject matter expert, in Blue Line’s latest edition. “The highly-public death of George Floyd, followed two weeks later by the highly-public death of Rayshard Brooks in a country in many ways far-removed from Canada have had a significant impact. Much of it has not been pretty... The public must be aware that ‘defunding the police’ is not a viable solution to anything.”
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In Blue Line’s May 2020 Behavioural Sciences column, we discussed the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and the challenge these individuals may pose to both law enforcement and clinicians alike. Now Peter Collins and Matthew Tomlin bring you part two of that series.
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The Yukon government is considering plans for a supervised injection site and a safer supply of drugs for substance users after 13 people fatally overdosed between January and mid-July, compared with six for all of last year.
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Canada will provide a military transport plane to support United Nations peacekeeping missions for another year despite losing its bid for a temporary seat on the UN Security Council. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s office confirmed the continued deployment of a CC-130 Hercules in support of UN missions in Africa on Sunday, ending months of speculation about the fate of the mission.
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Toronto Police Det.-Const Kenrick Bagnall joins the hosts of the podcast 4 Degrees of Madness to discuss cybercrime, investigations and humanity as the common denominator. Bagnall, a member of the Toronto Police Service’s (TPS) Coordinated Cyber Centre (C3), details how he began his policing career along with what it takes to conduct a cyber investigation.
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Location: Caledon, Ont.
Date: Sept. 17, 2020
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Location: Niagara Falls, Ont.
Date: Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2020
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Location: Brampton, Ont.
Date: Oct. 7-8, 2020
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