"I have been saying for quite some time that the feds have been signal-checking that they may be looking at moving away from contract policing, that is no secret," Mike Ellis said Thursday during question period at the legislature.

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"When a resident is calling, there's a need for the police to respond. We've got to make sure that we're responding whether it's going to be the RCMP responding or, once I start to deploy my resources, it could be a combination of RCMP and GPPS, eventually leading to a full complement of police service members here."

A man wanted for deserting the U.S. military 16 years ago was arrested at the border in Buffalo, N.Y. earlier this week.

A sign of the jolliest time of year is once again making its appearance near downtown Winnipeg, signalling the start of the hustle and bustle of the holiday season.

Montreal-area home sales rose 47 per cent in November compared with a year ago as the province's real estate board says the region saw the second-most activity for the month since 2000.

Two Ontarians collectively lost $230,000 after falling victim to separate AI-generated social media posts advertising fraudulent cryptocurrency investments.

One person was sent to hospital after a collision involving a tractor trailer and a pedestrian near Brantford early Thursday morning.

Grande Prairie joins Camrose, Edmonton, Calgary, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Lacombe and Taber in creating a municipally run police service in addition to First Nations police services for the Blood Tribe, Lakeshore Regional and Tsuu T'ina Nation.

Windsor police officers have arrested two 14-year-old boys related to a kidnapping and gunpoint robbery in south Windsor.

The Garry Theatre sits vacant and shuttered on Manitoba Avenue in Selkirk. Inside, posters for movies that never got the chance to run still cling to its walls. But the silver screen is set to shine once again in the City of Selkirk.

Mike Moellenbeck, director of Saskatoon Transit, said "acts of aggression" can be classified as an intent to do harm, but physical violence hasn't happened.

Environment Canada has lifted the winter weather travel advisory for Ottawa. The forecast calls for Ottawa to receive another 2 cm of snow on Thursday.

A 2022 provincial report looking at the cost of ditching the RCMP entirely found Alberta would lose $170 million in funding from the federal government and be forced to pay $366 million in start-up costs for a provincial police force.

Friday marked the first time an Alberta city had sworn in its first police chief since Camrose established its own force in 1956.

A pedestrian who was hit by a vehicle east of Hawkesbury Wednesday night turned out to be a suspect wanted for previous outstanding charges, according to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP).

The Calgary International Airport is set to announce some changes to this travel season as thousands are expected to fly in and out of the city this month.

Another blow has been dealt to North Bay's beleaguered soup kitchen as long-time executive director Dennis Chippa was let go following a funding denial in October.

Smith says the optimal charge for effectiveness and safety is 70 microcoulombs. The X26 cannot adjust its pulse for effectiveness if the subject is wearing thick clothing; the X3 can.

Barrie Mayor Alex Nuttall is applauding Ontario Premier Doug Ford for his pledge to back municipalities dealing with homeless encampments in public spaces.

When BC Place stadium announced a ban on loose objects and large bags for Taylor Swift's upcoming shows in Vancouver, it put some Swifties in a bind — what to do with the hundreds of friendship bracelets that are traditionally swapped at the superstar's shows?

Since the debut of the M26 in 2001 and subsequent release of the X26 in 2003, the TASER has become as common a sight on the belts of American law enforcement officers as a handgun.

When BC Place stadium announced a ban on loose objects and large bags for Taylor Swift's upcoming shows in Vancouver, it put some Swifties in a bind — what to do with the hundreds of friendship bracelets that are traditionally swapped at the superstar's shows?

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You may not have heard of that last one yet. The three-shot TASER pistol marketed as the X3 has been one of the company's most secret projects. It's also been a product that cops have been requesting for years.

Homicide detectives are investigating a shooting outside a Brampton home that left one man dead and another seriously injured late Wednesday night.

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"While it looks nice and shiny and brand new right away, we are really concerned about the long-term costs on taxpayers and our residents because this is going to directly affect your property taxes," she said.

Authorities have arrested Finbar Hughes, a man wanted in connection with alleged plots in Calgary and Edmonton that threatened to burn victims' homes if they did not pay him Bitcoin ransoms.

The number of people being revived with Naloxone in New Westminster, B.C., is on the increase, as its police department notes four life-saving interventions in the past week.

Troublesome traffic areas use drones to monitor aggressive driver behavior instead of placing patrol cars on the side of these dangerous, frequent crash areas.

The X3 actually records three types of data. It keeps an event log that shows when the weapon was activated (safety off), if it was arced, and if it was fired. It keeps the aforementioned pulse log. And it keeps an engineering log that records system performance parameters and reveals malfunctions and maintenance problems.

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H Three Shots-Studies have show that about 20 percent of TASER shots fired by police miss. So one of the first benefits of the multi-shot TASER will be greater success in engaging subjects.

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Saskatchewan RCMP’s Major Crimes continues to investigate the suspicious death of a 33-year-old man on White Bear First Nation.

OPP and London police are notifying the public of an increased police presence as it relates to a person reported missing. The presence will be in the area of Hawk Cliff Road at Dexter Line in Union, Ont., north of Port Stanley.

Lakusta and his ever-growing staff have less than two years to hire, train and deploy 104 officers, and purchase equipment, intervention tools, vehicles, uniforms, "everything you could think of that a police officer needs," the chief told CTV News Edmonton on Friday.

Windsor police are warning the public after a robbery in the Remington Park area while a person was attempting to buy a product from an online exchange.

"We're finding our RCMP members and our police services are doing a fantastic job mitigating the concerns from the public around crime, around stolen goods, break-and-enters," she said.

In addition to its ability to adjust its charge from pulse to pulse, the X3 also keeps records of each pulse. "We can go back and show exactly how much energy went into the subject," Smith says.

A number of weather warnings remain in place across the Maritimes Thursday due to an early December storm that’s bringing snow, strong winds and rain to the region.

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New York police have released new images of a person of interest in an investigation into the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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The province is covering the bill for Grande Prairie's transition to a municipally-run police force, costing Alberta taxpayers $19 million.

Another benefit of the X3 TASER is that officers can now engage up to three subjects without reloading. The cartridges can be fired in order, or the user can choose which cartridge to trigger out of the three. This gives the user the ability to load the X3 with both short-range and long-range cartridges and choose the cartridge type needed for each confrontation.

The three-shot TASER pistol marketed as the X3 has been one of the company's most secret projects. It's also been a product that cops have been requesting for years.

The city's transition to governing its own police force comes as Alberta's public safety minister cites concerns with the province's policing contract with the RCMP, which expires in 2032.

Authorities have arrested Finbar Hughes, a man wanted in connection with alleged plots in Calgary and Edmonton that threatened to burn victims' homes if they did not pay him Bitcoin ransoms.

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The federal government says it will be providing Saskatchewan with more than $265 million to help build more renewable power projects as well as modernize and upgrade the province’s electrical grid.

But Kara Westerlund, the vice-president of the Rural Municipalities of Alberta (RMA), says her association understands the federal police service wants to better help with policing.

But despite the demand, TASER International didn't want to just build a multi-shot version of the X26. It wanted to build the next-generation TASER with features that weren't even possible when the X26 was in development and keep it compact enough to fit the same spot on a duty belt as the X26.

The federal government says it will be providing Saskatchewan with more than $265 million to help build more renewable power projects as well as modernize and upgrade the province’s electrical grid.

New York police have released new images of a person of interest in an investigation into the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Westerlund also says the RMA finds the RCMP does an adequate job, adding that some of the criminal problems people in rural areas face have more to do with judicial issues than policing ones.

Mount Pearl, near St. John's, has been the scene for three random attacks in November. Police have arrested and charged seven youth.

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Westerlund said RMA members have been vocal about their desire not to move away from policing by the RCMP, particularly due to costs.

"The problem is what we're seeing — where things are falling short — is on the court side of things. We often talk about that revolving door. The RCMP do a fantastic job getting these criminals off the road and out of breaking into our homes, but we find out two hours later they're released and then picked up again less than 24 hours doing the same thing and then released again."

H Warning Arc While Loaded-The X3 gives the user two ways to end a confrontation without firing a cartridge. An officer can paint a suspect with the weapon's dual laser system and back him down. Better yet, the X3's new cartridge design shows the electricity arcing across the front of the TASER while it is loaded and the safety is off. This is designed to warn the subject that he is about to get zapped, so he'd better comply.

H Vastly Improved Intelligence and Safety Features-It would not be an exaggeration to say that the X3 is the smartest TASER ever. It features a Pulse Calibration System that measures the voltage and the charge of each pulse (like the X26, the X3 pulses 19 times per second) when the TASER is fired.

The new year won’t bring a resolution to rising food costs, according to a new report that predicts prices to rise as much as five per cent in 2025.

"This is all about community safety and well-being in the city of Grand Prairie," said Lakusta, a 27-year Edmonton Police Service veteran and former head of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT).

Screens have found their way into families and are now an integral part of everyday life. Even under the age of two, babies in Quebec are using screens every day. Toddlers from low-income households use screens more frequently, according to a report by the Quebec statistics institute (ISQ) published on Thursday.

Two people, including a 37-year-old Manitoulin Island man, are facing charges after an armed carjacking south of Sudbury last week.

Charges have been laid against a Calgary man after a computer repair company discovered thousands of images of child porn on a device dropped off for repair.

Editor's Note: Watch a TASER video with interviews of company employees describing their experience be being hit with the X3.

The city of about 70,000 that's 388 kilometres northwest of Edmonton has sworn in Dwayne Lakusta as the first chief of the Grande Prairie Police Service and has terminated its contract with the RCMP effective March 30, 2026.

A Lethbridge police community peace officer has been charged with an off-duty incident stemming from more than 10 years ago.

"The chance of three successive misses doesn't drop in a linear fashion," TASER International CEO Rick Smith explains. "It drops exponentially. Three shots gives you a 99.2 percent success rate vs. 80 percent for one shot."

After more than 150 shows across five continents over nearly two years, the global phenomenon that is Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is coming to an end.

Lethbridge has seen its population of people experiencing homelessness increase significantly over recent years, but help is coming, as construction is underway on an expansion of the Lethbridge Shelter.

The head of Britain’s armed forces has warned that the world stands at the cusp of a 'third nuclear age,' defined by multiple simultaneous challenges and weakened safeguards that kept previous threats in check.

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Some non-union staff at Vale in the Sudbury area are being laid off, but the company is not saying how many and what positions are being affected.

Ahead of the 35th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, Annie Ross, a mechanical engineering professor at Polytechnique Montreal, said she often thinks of those who lived through the tragedy but still suffer silently.

"Any conversations that we have with the federal government on that side is they are not looking at pulling out," Westerlund, a longtime councillor in Brazeau County, told CTV News Edmonton on Friday.

One woman has been sent to hospital as Stratford Police investigate an intimate violence investigation Thursday morning.

All that said, Lakusta says the 2026 date for full GPPS control is not a hard one and that his team "is going to work closely with RCMP" to ensure proper policing.

A 16-year-old boy faces a first-degree murder charge in the case of a woman found dead in an 8th Street parking lot last month.

But TASER International has chosen not to coast on its success. In the last few years, the company has developed a body worn video camera/computer system (AXON) and an electrically charged shotgun projectile called the XREP(Extended Range Electronic Projectile)...

Congo’s health minister said Thursday the government is on alert over a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people.

A new report looking into homeownership affordability reveals an unsettling picture on how far out of reach owning a home is becoming in Canada.

A southern Alberta man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years, less time served, in connection with a fatal attack on Linden Grier more than three years ago.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is promising new legislation to target homeless encampments around the province and is threatening to use the notwithstanding clause to get it done.

All of this data can be uploaded to TASER International's new Evidence.com so that supervisors and project managers can analyze TASER use and discover any problems. This feature of Evidence.com is free to agencies that purchase the X3.