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B.C.’s Ministry of Public Safety has found provincial Mounties have been using a controversial sleeper-hold and, in scores of cases, the incident reports did not appear to justify the knock-out technique.
Postmedia has learned that while reviewing RCMP reports from 2019, the ministry’s Policing and Security Branch initially raised concerns about more than 100 incidents involving the problematic Vascular Neck Restraint.
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The branch flagged 79 incidents in particular from 2012 to 2018 and notified RCMP E Division (which covers the province) of the apparent discrepancy between the policy on using the technique and what officers were actually doing.
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Near Port Alberni, Anger Over Planned Pot Facility Near Indigenous Healing Centre
‘Exhausting’ dispute involves a local MP, the regional district, mad residents, lawyers, ministries, the land commission and more.
Katie Hyslop is a reporter for The Tyee. Reach her here. SHARES An Indigenous drug and alcohol treatment and healing centre has long been fighting the development of a cannabis growth facility across the street. ‘It’s just exhausting.’
Photo by Mike Youds.
A 10-minute drive north of Port Alberni and along the banks of Beaver Creek lies the unincorporated community known as Beaver Creek.
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