Posts Tagged ‘Royal Canadian Mounted Police’

“It’s an insult,” says Gerry Pumphrey of the RCMP Veterans Association in Nova Scotia, who’s worked on the issue for more than five years. “I’m disgusted. It’s always ‘next spring, next fall.’ And the thing is, there are people dying who need this help.” There are approximately 6,000 RCMP members and RCMP veterans receiving disability pensions, but not all of those would want or qualify for VIP, says Murray Brown, chairman of the RCMP serving members’ occupational health and safety committee. Roughly 225 RCMP veterans die each year, and “if only 10 per cent were eligible,” says Pumphrey, “you have about 25 [...]

If your image of a museum visit is shuffling between displays carefully preserved behind glass, you’re in for a surprise at the new Royal Canadian Mounted Police Heritage Centre in Regina. It begins with the building itself, designed by Arthur Erickson, the architect whose work includes the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and much of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. The Tyndall stone, concrete and glass structure hugs the ground, but the grand sweep of the roof guides your eye to the spectacular blue of the Prairie sky. Inside you’re greeted by a mural of a lone, mounted sentinel at the [...]