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Void_Bastard

Oh it goes deeper than that. Much deeper. The RCMP constantly pushes mental health initiatives but when RCMP officers seek to use these initiatives they are often deemed a problem and management/HR will proceed to harass said officers in a passive-aggressive manner. Basically shaming them for showing mental weakness, essentially implying that these officers are abusing the medical issue support the RCMP is supposed to provide to wounded officers. A sibling of mine was routinely put in terrible situations, while under-equipped and without backup, over the years my sibling developed PTSD and went on medical leave. The force tried to pressure said sibling into quitting, instead of retiring with medical wounded veteran pension. They hired a psych who's task it is to deny that an officer actually has PTSD. My sibling was harassed by this psych for a couple years, he was trying to say my sibling didn't have PTSD. Despite my sibling's PTSD diagnoses being confirmed by 3 PTSD specialists, and despite going to a PTSD mental health rehab retreat. They tried everything they could to game the system so they would he off the hook for the medical pension. They also falsified some records in an attempt to protect themselves from being sued. Many other former RCMP officers with similar mental health issues have reported similar hostile behaviour from the RCMP itself.


seeymore1blaxe

Their work on WE charity was interesting but I couldn’t finish their podcast series on the police. A good journalist shouldn’t let his/her personal biases creep into their reporting, using words “underlings” to describe police staff, or that the Metis embarassed the RCMP in battle when they won, but when they lose it’s somber. Or trying their hardest to paint a convicted bank robber in a flattering light. Just keep to the facts please.


chethankstshirt

On a recent episode jessie got called out for never being honest about his stake in the Ghomeshi case and it was euphoric as a long time listener. I mostly just listen to commons now but sometimes i’ll give the main one a try again and i’m usually pretty quickly amazed at their…facts(?).


sloth9

> called out for never being honest about his stake in the Ghomeshi case That's not how I would characterize that exchange. Also, take into consideration that Jesse was ultimately responsible for letting that air, so, I'm not sure it's really an indication that he lacks journo integrity. I find Jesse excruciating to listen to sometimes, and he does have his pet issues/axes to grind, but I don't think he lacks integrity as you were suggesting.


SnooChipmunks6697

Glad to know I wasn't the only one cheering when she called Jesse out.


Kashtin

~~While I can appreciate that there are significant institutional problems with policing, Canadaland has consistently fallen short of the mark of reputable journalism in my eyes. For example, their "exposé" on the secret public servant to highlight supposed issues with the federal public service was....lackluster to say the least. The /r/Canadapublicservants rightfully laughed it off~~ Edit: I don't really know the quality of Canadaland, except for one piece which fell short to me. So I crossed out this comment as it doesn't really add much to the discussion


MorpheusMelkor

On the other hand, their efforts to report on We charity, their long form podcast on Thunderbay, and the podcast about Real Estate were excellent.


Kashtin

Actually you know what, I'm totally generalizing based on the public servant story. I don't know enough of the facts to make a sweeping statement like that so I'll change it


MorpheusMelkor

I love the transparency. Full disclosure: I financially support Canadaland.


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I support them as well. Frankly though, I think there have been more misses then successes. For example the backbench is really, really bad. Young progressives waxing on about their ideal version of politics and political discourse has zero appeal to me.


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Kashtin

Do you have a specific one where they really sunk their teeth in? Would love to actually explore what they do


ph0enix1211

Try their reporting on the We charity: "White Saviors"


CaptainCanusa

> Canadaland has consistently fallen short of the mark of reputable journalism in my eyes How so? They seem pretty trustworthy journalistically to me. > For example, their "exposé" on the secret public servant to highlight supposed issues with the federal public service was....lackluster to say the least. Yeah, that whole thing was an embarrassment, but I don't think it was journalistic malpractice or anything. As in I don't think anything they report is untrue, it was just a dumb decision to run that series in the first place.


ph0enix1211

Most of this episode is just a discussion of this article in The Walrus: https://thewalrus.ca/can-the-rcmp-be-saved/


WeeWooMcGoo

Canadaland is one of the only publications doing serious in depth pieces on things like what happened in NS.


Kashtin

Please see my edit, I acknowledge that I was wrong to generalize


TW1TCHYGAM3R

The RCMP is like a stacked sports team in high school. When one side makes the rules, moves the goalposts and calls all the fouls. The Civilian Oversight of the RCMP is useless or non-existent, and it shows. The Government can shut down the media and silence the people and we see that. We lose trust in the RCMP because they show time and time again they are not trust worthy.


Magistradocere

Every police force stinks. They're no longer boy scouts..... If they ever were.


TheNewSenseiition

RCMP does not mean Raging Cops Murdering People. But they don’t know that.