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The work of the committee is the culmination of an extensive public consultation process and research by committee members and its support team.

More details are emerging of the RCMP’s version of a traffic stop near North Preston, N.S., in July.

  TORONTO -- A year after the death of George Floyd, one expert says Canadian cities have made little progress in addressing calls to defund the police. Julius Haag, a sociology and criminology professor at the University of Toronto, told CTV's Your Morning on Tuesday that no Canadian cities have successfully defunded their police force to date. However, he says there continues to be some momentum to potentially do so in certain regions. "Many of our city councils have debated measures to defund the police, but we haven't actually seen any substantial cuts," Haag said. "We have seen mea...

  HALIFAX -- The rollout of the Halifax Regional Police's $3.7-million body camera program is being delayed following Monday's police commission meeting. Police had hoped to begin phase one of the program in the fall of 2021, but Halifax Board of Police Commissioners Chair Lindell Smith put forward the motion to delay the rollout of the body cams until they have more information. "What we’ve asked for is to delay implementation to create the policies first and then look at implementation. Where before, it was let’s purchase the equipment, develop the policy while we are doing a rollo...