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Current Affairs / Feature

Deciphering the Big Stories

December 28, 2021December 30, 2021 - by The Walrus Staff

Some of the most complex developments of 2021 necessitated deep dives and investigative reporting

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Justice / November 2021

The Dark Side of the RCMP

October 20, 2021October 27, 2021 - by Jane Gerster

The mystique that has helped cement the RCMP as a national symbol is also what renders it particularly, stubbornly difficult to reform

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May 2021 / The Walrus True Crime

The Rise and Fall of a Double Agent

April 20, 2021January 11, 2022 - 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

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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

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Fiction / November 2017

Lynch Law

October 16, 2017September 29, 2021 - by Marina Endicott

They said it was us carrying on that led Willis to do himself the injury

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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

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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

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Politics

The Real Agenda behind Bill C-51

April 15, 2015March 3, 2022 - 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

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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

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Feature / January/February 2014

Upholding the Right

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

What happened to civilian oversight of the RCMP

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