A two-phase public inquiry into the use of Tasers by police and the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski begins Monday in Vancouver. Retired B.C. Appeal Court justice Thomas Braidwood will open the first phase of the inquiry, which will focus on the medical and scientific aspects of the stun gun's use. The second phase of the inquiry will focus on Dziekanski, who died in the arrivals lounge of Vancouver International Airport on Oct. 14, 2007, shortly after RCMP officers used a stun gun on him. The two-phase inquiry may result in restrictions on the use of Tasers by municipal police forces - but not by the RCMP - B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal said in February. The inquiry has no jurisdiction over the RCMP because the force is federally regulated. Dziekanski, 41, was emigrating to Canada to join his mother, Zophia Cisowski, in the B.C. Interior city of Kamloops. Cisowski hopes the inquiry will force police to stop using...
The chair of Taser International is expected to defend the safety record of his company's stun guns on Monday, when he appears at a public inquiry examining police use of the weapons. - Tom...
Documents obtained by CBC News cast doubt on the RCMP's sincerity in vows to get to the bottom of the Taser-related death of Robert Dziekanski, according to a civil rights group and the lawyer for...
The B.C. government has ordered a full public inquiry into the Oct. 14 death at Vancouver International Airport of Robert Dziekanski, who died after RCMP used a Taser on him. Solicitor...
Derek Harvey-Zenk, an off-duty police officer who killed a Winnipeg woman when he rear-ended her vehicle after an all-night party with colleagues, remained calm and composed as he told the Taman...
Ontario pathologist Charles Smith admitted on Tuesday that he "lost perspective" in one case he examined and made untrue statements about what a trial judge said in another case. - Smith...
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A United Nations military observer sent e-mails home to Canada reporting that Israel was bombing schools and waging "a campaign of terror against the Lebanese people" shortly before he was killed...
There's no conflict between the RCMP's publicly stated commitment to investigations of the death of Robert Dziekanski after police shot him with a Taser and recently released internal...
Ontario's Court of Appeal granted a request Friday by Karlheinz Schreiber's lawyers to set aside his extradition order to Germany until the Supreme Court of Canada decides whether it will hear his...
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