Powerful but precarious: cracks in the foundation of fire and emergency services in Canada
The climate crisis, health-care crisis, and personnel shortages in Canada’s fire departments are converging, causing increasing strain on Canada’s fire-fighting capacity.
Trudeau, ministers emerge from Rouleau Commission testimony ‘relatively unscathed,’ say insiders
Pollster Nik Nanos said the inquiry reinforced what most Canadians already knew, which was that there was a ‘hot mess’ between different law enforcement agencies, and between the federal government and provinces such as Ontario and Alberta.
‘Stay the course’: reporters, editors discuss strategies for combating online hate with Mendicino
Catherine Tait of CBC said a survey by Reporters Without Borders had found three quarters of journalists had experience harassment.
The real Rouleau inquiry question: who was responsible for allowing the illegal trucker blockades to drag on?
The issue of responsibility has tended to get lost in the endless hours of legalistic testimony in the Emergencies Act review.
‘Marathon of work’: Public Order Emergency Commission proceedings ‘one of the most transparent inquiries ever,’ says lawyer Paul Champ
Lawyers involved in the hearings were provided with more than 30,000 documents, but ministers’ testimony doesn’t get full-transparency marks, says Tim Powers.
The convoy occupation hearings reveal the paucity of government leadership
What struck me about the testimony is how perception, not analysis, shaped the judgments of the senior members of cabinet and the public service.
Rouleau Commission testimony provided a closer look at what we already knew
The Public Order Emergency Commission may have been the biggest political yawn in commission history, writes Sheila Copps.
Mounties’ union calls on feds to reconsider removal of ‘less-lethal intervention options’ from RCMP toolkit, citing safety concerns
According to the RCMP’s police intervention option reports for the years 2010-2021, there was an overall 43 per cent decline in the application of police intervention options during that time period.
Military recruitment and retention crisis requires addressing low morale, housing availability, say Tory, NDP critics
Facing a shortfall of approximately 10,000 unfilled positions, the Canadian Armed Forces needs expedited training for personnel and more affordable housing access, say opposition MPs.
Rouleau Inquiry lifts lid on ‘federal, provincial, municipal dysfunction in crisis management and policing,’ say politicos
Testimony from federal officials last week shown light on the earliest and final days of the Freedom Convoy protests, discussions around the potential for ‘serious violence’ leading up to the first-ever invocation of the Emergencies Act, and why the federal government needed to step up.
