Edmonton’s police commission has gone rogue. Here’s how it happened

Things have gotten so bad between the Edmonton Police Commission (EPC) and the Edmonton city council that the commission has requested a third party mediator to “mend” the obviously broken relationship. But the fault lines in the breakdown between the commission and council go back many years. 

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Calgary cop repeatedly used racial slurs and threatened his colleague before getting promoted, review board hears

A Calgary police officer is alleging the Calgary Police Service (CPS) is covering up a colleague’s pattern of racist and harassing behaviour, which he says is damaging the police force’s credibility. 

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POD: ANDP leadership race analysis and predictions

Jeremy and Duncan review the state of the ANDP leadership race, offer their predictions, and tell you how they'd fill out their ballots today.

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EPS using “private police officers” on murder investigations, alleges police association complaint

The Edmonton Police Association has filed a complaint with the Alberta Labour Relations Board alleging that the Edmonton Police Service is contracting out police work to “private homicide investigators who are acting as private police officers.”

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As police violence in Alberta escalates, Kathleen Ganley offers a mea culpa on carding

The Alberta NDP leadership race has been characterized to date by its lack of substantive disagreement and policy debate, but here and there some candidates have had some surprising things to say—and one of the biggest surprises has been a reversal from former justice minister Kathleen Ganley on the issue of carding.

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Former senior political staffers among new crop of appointees to university boards who have given $15K to the UCP

The UCP have appointed four people who have collectively donated more than $15,000 to the UCP to university boards of governors, including Minister of Advanced Education Rajan Sawhney’s former chief of staff and the party’s former executive director, bringing the total of UCP donations from its university board appointees to nearly $92,000. 

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Documents show police chiefs used police resources to help elect the UCP. Now what?

Documents obtained by independent journalist Euan Thomson show that Alberta police chiefs, including Calgary’s Mark Neufeld and Edmonton’s Dale McFee, campaigned for the United Conservative Party in the run-up to the 2023 election—even using publicly-funded police resources to help secure Danielle Smith’s victory. 

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Ex-EPS cop who kicked defenseless man in head on video, kicked another defenseless man in the head a year prior

An Edmonton judge lifted the publication ban last week on a video of former EPS Constable Oli Olason kicking Lee Van Beaver in the head multiple times while also stepping on his head with the full weight of his body. Olason was recorded committing this act of police brutality, which the judge called “deeply disturbing,” on March 23, 2021 outside of Ritchie Market.

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Derek Fildebrandt charged with four counts of uttering threats against teens

Former provincial politician and publisher of the Western Standard Derek Fildebrandt has been charged with four counts of uttering threats against teenagers in his neighborhood. 

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"Managers gone wild." ATCO worker shatters ankle at work, then his bosses make it much, much worse

While on the job as a powerline technician on October 6, 2022 a power pole slammed into Sean Mowat’s ankle, breaking it in at least two places. Then his day got really bad. 

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