'Canada is watching': New northern Alberta police service trying to lead by example
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Grande Prairie in northern Alberta is making the switch from RCMP to a new municipal police service. This is how it's going.
On the second floor of a building where most offices are without doors, the ceilings hang low and the carpets don't match, the chief of Grande Prairie’s new police force gets down to work.
"Don't focus on the building," Dwayne Lakusta said in a recent interview.
The 51-year-old was picked over a year ago to head up a new municipal police service in this city of 60,000 in Alberta’s northwest, replacing the RCMP. It's to be the first new force in Alberta in more than 60 years.
With three decades of experience, Lakusta has overseen the deployment of a small group of officers working with local RCMP.
The Mounties remain in charge until the local force is fully in place by 2028.
Lakusta said it will take a new approach based on surveys and research done in other jurisdictions calling for police to be more responsive, particularly to youth.
The result, he said, is a "non-traditional" policing model that will deploy mobile outreach workers alongside enforcement officers.
Employers at British Columbia ports say they are going ahead with locking out more than 700 foremen across the province after strike activities from union members began.
The prime ministers of India and Canada condemned violence that broke out on Sunday at a Hindu temple near Toronto at a time of escalating diplomatic tensions between the two countries.
The Hanover Police Service said they received a report in the early morning hours of Oct. 30 of an injured 4-month-old baby who was treated at the emergency department of the Hanover and District Hospital.
Scotiabank is eliminating tellers at some of its branches, including one at Carleton University, and switching to "advice services only."
On the evening of October 8, a 43-year-old London man pried open a locked gate at a business in the 700 block of Dundas Street, entering an attached patio.
British Columbia is bracing for another labour disruption at all ports.
Hundreds of mourners took part in a candlelight vigil Sunday night for a young woman who was found dead at a Halifax Walmart last month.
Peel Regional Police say three people are in custody as they continue to investigate an incident during a demonstration at a Hindu temple in Brampton on Sunday.
Grande Prairie in northern Alberta is making the switch from RCMP to a new municipal police service. This is how it's going.
Canada Post says talks are continuing with the union that represents postal workers and neither side has given notice of a work stoppage.
Police say one person was taken to hospital and has since been pronounced dead.