RCMP | The Walrus

An illustration, with the silhouette of a face flanked by men holding guns (one in a suit, one in army uniform). At the bottom, there are police and police cars moving towards a man sitting at a table.

May 2021 / The Walrus True Crime

The Rise and Fall of a Double Agent

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 - by Justin Ling

Cameron Ortis was an RCMP officer privy to the inner workings of Canada’s national security—and in a prime position to exploit them

A black and white photo of an older man wearing a winter coat, his hands in his pockets. Behind him is a barn that says "Elm Knoll Farm" and the ground is covered in snow.

June 2020 / The Walrus True Crime

Murder in Old Barns

May 27, 2020June 27, 2020 - by Lindsay Jones

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later

Illustration of a woman in bed as a shadow approaches her from outside her bedroom

Fiction / November 2017

Lynch Law

October 16, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Marina Endicott

From mounted police life in Canada, a record of thirty-one years’ service, by Superintendent Richard Burton Deane: On the evening of February 13, 1895, it was reported to me at …

Detail of book jacket for False Security

Politics

Bill C-51: What Fear Has Wrought

September 18, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Craig Forcese and Kent Roach

The authors of a new book denounce our government’s unprecedented “radicalization” of anti-terrorism policy

July/August 2015 / Justice

On the Beat

June 15, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

The police have become a 24-7 backstop for Canada’s overburdened social-welfare state

Photograph of Bill C-51 protesters by Jeremy Board

Politics

The Real Agenda behind Bill C-51

April 15, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Craig Forcese and Kent Roach

Buried behind the government’s simplistic anti-terror talking points is a desire to liberate CSIS from its dysfunctional relationship with the RCMP

Photograph of a Barney Fife impersonator by Nathan Adams

Justice

The Death Knell for Small-Town Police Departments

March 12, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Christopher D. Lewis

Barney Fife is a relic: modern society needs modern policing

Feature / January/February 2014

Upholding the Right

January 16, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Michael Kempa

What happened to civilian oversight of the RCMP

Feature / October 2010

Faded Hero

October 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Charlotte Gray

How Canada forgot—and then rediscovered—Sir Sam Steele

Environment / June 2010

Cold Blood

June 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Kevin Chong

Since 2002, Alberta’s wild horses have been picked off with brutal abandon. Who is responsible?