Face recognition technologies use biometrics to map facial features from a photograph or video. The information is then compared with a database of known faces to find a match. The use of these technologies by governments and the private sector is widespread. Airports, public transit facilities, law enforcement, mobile phone ...
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On December 11, 2015, Cst Jonathan Brault of the RCMP stopped a motor vehicle driven by Erick Robert Zolmer on Highway 16 east of Jasper, Alberta. "Are you the owner of that vehicle?" the constable asked. Zolmer said it was his mother's. "You have tinted windows - it's illegal - ...
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid one hundred times more potent than morphine used to treat patients with severe and chronic pain. Side effects include respiratory depression, addiction, coma and death. Fentanyl is a Schedule I drug in Canada under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, SC 1996, c 19. A ...
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On February 14, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada released the split 6-3 unanimous ruling in R v Jarvis, 2019 SCC 10 in which a high school teacher had been acquitted of voyeurism for surreptitiously using a pen camera to make recordings of female students' cleavage in school hallways. The question ...
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It was their last conversation. Lindsey Hilsum is the international editor for Channel 4 News in Britain. Marie Colvin was an American journalist and a foreign correspondent for the British newspaper The Sunday Times. They were on Skype from Baba Amr in Homs during the bombardment by the Syrian army ...
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On December 1, 2018, the RCMP arrested Wanzhou Meng at Vancouver International Airport while she was en route from Hong Kong to Mexico City after an extradition request made by the United States. The warrant for Ms Meng's arrest was issued by the US District Court, Eastern District of New ...
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The police in Oakland, California, had two suspects in the crosshairs of an extortion investigation for allegedly using Facebook Messenger to demand money from their target or they would distribute an embarrassing video of him. The Government applied for a warrant to search a residence and compel people present to ...
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On July 1, 2013, John Nuttall and Amanda Korody placed pressure cooker bombs outside the Parliament Buildings in Victoria, British Columbia, containing a minute amount of an explosive substance provided by the RCMP Integrated National Security Team (INSET) during an undercover operation. But they were phony bombs and did not ...
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It all started when Nicole Gravelle called a probation officer who was supervising her common law spouse, Thomas Reeves, to withdraw her consent under a court order permitting him to visit the family home in Sudbury, Ontario. Gravelle said she found child pornography on a shared computer in the basement ...
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Vice Media Canada Inc produces content on a multimedia network of websites, TV channels, films and mobile platforms. During 2014 one of its reporters, Ben Makuch, began communicating with Farah Mohamed Shirdon using an instant text messaging application, Kik messenger. The RCMP believed that Shirdon, raised in Calgary, left Canada ...
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