Eli El-Chantiry is an Ottawa City Councillor.
Michael Dennis Duffy is a former Canadian senator and former Canadian television journalist. Prior to his appointment to the upper house in 2008,he was the Ottawa editor for CTV News Channel. In turning 75 on May 27,2021,Duffy retired from the senate due to mandatory retirement rules.
Northumbria Police is a territorial police force in England. It is responsible for policing the metropolitan boroughs of Newcastle upon Tyne,Gateshead,North Tyneside,South Tyneside and the City of Sunderland,as well as the ceremonial county of Northumberland. It is the largest police force in the North East by geographical area and number of officers. The force covers an area of 2,141 square miles (5,550 km2) with a population of 1.46 million.
The Ottawa Police Service is a municipal police force in Ottawa,Ontario,Canada. The OPS serves an area of 2,796 square kilometres and 943,243 people alongside several other police forces which have specialized jurisdiction.
Vincent Thomas Bevan is a retired Canadian police officer who served as the chief of police of the Ottawa Police Service from April 2000 to March 2007. He led one of the largest police services in Canada and was one of only six Canadian chiefs in the Major Cities Chiefs Association.
The Canadian Police and Peace Officers' Memorial is a memorial in Ottawa,Ontario,commemorating approximately 900 Canadian law enforcement officers killed in the course of their duties. Dedicated in 1994,it is located at the northwest corner of the Parliament Hill grounds,overlooking the Ottawa River. The memorial consists of the Police Memorial Pavilion,a reconstruction of a 1877 gazebo by Thomas Seaton Scott,and a glass-and-steel perimeter wall etched with the names of the fallen officers,which was designed by landscape architectural firm Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg.
On October 14,2007,Robert Dziekański —a Polish immigrant to Canada—was killed during an arrest at the Vancouver International Airport in Richmond,British Columbia.
Donald Meredith is a Canadian Pentecostal minister,former politician. Meredith was appointed to the Senate of Canada on December 18,2010 as a Conservative. He was expelled from the Conservative caucus on June 17,2015,however,following allegations that he had groomed a teenager for two years,starting when the girl was 16 and found guilty of ethics violations by the Senate ethics office in March 2017.
Lyndon Slewidge is a retired Ontario Provincial Police officer. He is also a singer who specializes in national anthems. He was the official anthem singer for the Ottawa Senators ice hockey club between 1994 and 2016 and is familiar with at least 13 national anthems. Slewidge typically ends an anthem with a salute,a wink and a thumbs up sign.
Patrick Brazeau is a Canadian senator from Quebec. At the age of 34,he was and is the youngest member of the Senate during his appointment. From February 2006 until January 2009 he held the position of national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples. Brazeau was expelled from the Conservative caucus following his February 7,2013 arrest for domestic assault and sexual assault. On September 15,2015,Brazeau pleaded guilty to simple assault and cocaine possession as part of a plea deal in which other assault charges were dropped,and he was acquitted of sexual assault.
Peter John Sloly is a Canadian police officer who has served as the chief of police with the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) since 28 October 2019. Prior to joining OPS,Sloly was a member of the Toronto Police Service (TPS) for 27 years,including as a deputy chief of police from 2009 to 2016. Prior to his police career,Sloly played soccer,including for the Canada men's national team in 1984.
Const. Ireneusz "Eric" Czapnik was a member of the Ottawa Police Service who was fatally stabbed in the early morning of December 29,2009 at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. Former RCMP Officer Kevin Gregson was convicted of his murder.
Charles J. Bordeleau is a retired Canadian police officer who served as the chief of police of the Ottawa Police Service from March 2012 until May 2019. Prior to this,he served as the city's deputy chief of police.
The death of Sammy Yatim occurred early in the morning of July 27,2013,in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. Yatim,an 18-year-old Toronto male armed with a switchblade knife,was shot at nine times,and was hit by eight of the shots fired by 30-year-old Toronto Police Service (TPS) officer James Forcillo. After being shot,while lying on the floor of the streetcar he was tasered. He later died from the injuries. The incident occurred after Yatim,brandishing a 12 cm (4.7 in) switchblade knife in a Toronto streetcar,advanced on a passenger,threatened other passengers,and exposed himself. The confrontation between Yatim and the police was recorded and footage of it was released publicly,prompting strong reactions across Canada.
The 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill were a series of shootings that occurred on October 22,2014,at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. At the Canadian National War Memorial,Corporal Nathan Cirillo,a Canadian soldier and reservist on ceremonial sentry duty was fatally shot by Islamic terrorist Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. Zehaf-Bibeau then entered the nearby Centre Block parliament building,where members of the Parliament of Canada were attending caucuses. After wrestling with a constable at the entrance,Zehaf-Bibeau ran inside and had a shootout with parliament security personnel. He was shot 31 times by six officers and died on scene. Following the shootings,the downtown core of Ottawa was placed on lockdown and majority of schools in Ottawa were on lockdown while police searched for any potential additional threats.
General Jonathan Holbert Vance is a retired Canadian Forces officer who served as a general in the Canadian Army. Vance was the chief of the Defence Staff from 2015 to 2021.
The death of Abdirahman Abdi,a Somali-Canadian,occurred on July 24,2016,in the neighbourhood of Hintonburg in Ottawa,Ontario. Abdi died in an incident with the Ottawa Police Service.
The 2020–2021 Rideau Hall workplace review was an external review by Quintet Consulting of the workplace culture at Rideau Hall—which hosts the governor general of Canada and her staff—initiated by the Privy Council Office (PCO) following allegations of harassment and verbal abuse by Governor General Julie Payette and her secretary,Assunta di Lorenzo. The review ultimately produced a report in January 2021 concluding that Payette and Di Lorenzo presided over a toxic work environment,resulting in their resignations on January 21.
Freedom Convoy is a series of ongoing protests and blockades in Canada against COVID-19 vaccine requirements for truckers to re-enter the country by land introduced by the government of Canada on January 15,2022. Beginning January 22,hundreds of vehicles formed convoys from several points and traversed Canadian provinces before converging on Ottawa on January 29,2022,with a rally at Parliament Hill. The vehicular convoys were then joined by thousands of pedestrian protesters. Several offshoot protests have blockaded provincial capitals and border crossings with the United States,causing major economic disruption.
