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Canadian actor Stewart McLean, last seen May 15 at his Lions Bay home, is now the subject of a homicide investigation after investigators uncovered evidence suggesting he was killed. The RCMP’s homicide division has taken over with a forensics team assisting, as investigators search areas near Brunswick Beach and train tracks in British Columbia. McLean, 45, is known for roles on Virgin River and other TV projects.
Canadian TV actor Stewart McLean’s missing-person case has been escalated to a homicide investigation after Squamish RCMP, with IHIT taking over on May 20, found evidence suggesting he was the homicide victim; he was last seen May 15 at Lions Bay, with credits including Virgin River and Arrow, and investigators from IHIT and IFIS are continuing the probe.
Canada’s AI and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Solomon says Ottawa is probing OpenAI's safety protocols after the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, noting the suspect’s ChatGPT account was flagged internally but not reported to police. OpenAI says it banned the account and alerted the RCMP, but the activity did not meet its threshold for law-enforcement referral. The province says it wasn’t informed of potential evidence; Premier Eby and the federal government are considering a broad package of safety measures to protect Canadians, especially children, with all options on the table, including preservation orders for digital evidence.
OpenAI said it identified a ChatGPT account linked to an individual for “furtherance of violent activities” and banned the account in June 2025. It had weighed referring the account to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police last year but determined the activity did not meet its threshold for imminent or credible harm. After the Tumbler Ridge shooting, OpenAI reported employees provided the RCMP with information about the user’s ChatGPT use and will continue to support the investigation. Eight people were killed, including a 39-year-old teaching assistant and five students aged 12–13; the shooter died by suicide. Motive remains unclear; the town is in British Columbia, far northeast of Vancouver.
A 29-year-old man has been taken into custody after five people, including three children, were found dead in three linked incidents in southern Manitoba. The deaths occurred at three different locations, and the suspect is believed to have known the victims. The RCMP have stated that there is no risk to public safety, and support is available for those affected by the tragedy.
Cameron Ortis, the former head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police intelligence unit, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for leaking state secrets, violating the country’s Security of Information Act, breach of trust, and fraudulent use of a computer. The charges followed one of Canada’s largest-ever security breaches, and Ortis, who had pleaded not guilty, had already spent three years in jail in pre-trial custody and one additional year on house arrest. His lawyer said he will appeal the decision and seek bail.
RCMP Const. Michael Wheeler has been convicted of careless use of a firearm and pointing a firearm at a person while at a social gathering and consuming alcohol in Newfoundland. The officer pulled his police firearm and placed it against the head of a woman.
Canadian law enforcement denies allegations of a delay in the murder investigation of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Khalistani figure. The Washington Post reported that police arrived 12 to 20 minutes after the gunshots, and a turf war between Surrey police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) caused further delays. However, the Surrey detachment of the RCMP stated that officers responded within four minutes of receiving the first information. The case was handed over to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT), and increased patrols have been implemented around gurdwaras and temples. The RCMP emphasized that the investigation is ongoing and declined to provide further details.
RCMP have released information on a fatal crash in Manitoba that killed 15 people. Dash cam footage from the semi-truck involved in the crash showed that the truck had the right of way. The bus transporting senior citizens had entered the roadway where the truck had the right of way. The investigation is ongoing, and the RCMP have seized both the bus and the semi-truck for further analysis.
A woman caused over $500,000 in damages by keying more than 400 vehicles at two dealerships in British Columbia, Canada, over a four-month period. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are searching for the suspect, who was caught on surveillance video deliberately scratching the cars one-by-one. The suspect is believed to be a Caucasian female in her 40s or 50s with shoulder-length blonde hair, and police believe she drives a 2008-2013 Ford Escape.
A woman caused over $500,000 in damages by keying more than 400 vehicles at two dealerships in British Columbia, Canada, over a four-month period. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are searching for the suspect, who was caught on surveillance video deliberately scratching each car one-by-one. The suspect is believed to be a Caucasian female in her 40s or 50s with shoulder-length blonde hair, and police believe she drives a 2008-2013 Ford Escape.
A public inquiry into Canada's worst mass shooting found widespread failures in how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) responded to the incident and recommends that the government rethink the RCMP's central role in the country's policing. The report also says the RCMP missed red flags in the years leading up to the Nova Scotia rampage, which left 22 people slain by a denture maker disguised as an RCMP officer. The commission calls for a future RCMP where the current 26-week model of training is scrapped and replaced with a three-year, degree-based model of education, as exists in Finland.
A public inquiry into Canada's worst mass shooting has found widespread failures in how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) responded to the incident and recommends that the government rethink the RCMP's central role in the country's policing. The report also says the RCMP missed red flags in the years leading up to the Nova Scotia rampage on April 18-19, 2020, which left 22 people slain by a denture maker disguised as an RCMP officer and driving a replica police vehicle. The report delves deeply into the causes of the mass shooting, including the killer's violence toward his spouse and the failure of police to act on it.
A public inquiry into Canada's worst mass shooting has found widespread failures in how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) responded to the incident and recommends that the government rethink the RCMP's central role in the country's policing. The report also says the RCMP missed red flags in the years leading up to the Nova Scotia rampage on April 18-19, 2020, which left 22 people slain by a denture maker disguised as an RCMP officer and driving a replica police vehicle. The report delves deeply into the causes of the mass shooting, including the killer's violence toward his spouse and the failure of police to act on it.
A public inquiry into Canada's worst mass shooting found "significant and extensive systemic inadequacies and failures," particularly in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's response, and it assailed authorities for ignoring a litany of warnings about the gunman's history of violence and illegal firearms. The report offered recommendations such as reworking the system for alerting the public to emergencies, taking steps to prevent intimate partner violence, tightening gun laws, and potentially restructuring the RCMP in what could entail a "reconfiguration of policing in Canada." The report came nearly three years after Gabriel Wortman went on a 13-hour rampage across rural Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19, 2020, killing 22 people.