By Gabrielle Giroday Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Police Service Deputy Chief Doug Webster said top-ranking members of the force’s executive committee were not aware, until it surfaced last week, of a video of the February 2009 arrest. The video shows officers beating then-18-year-old Cod ...

By Gabrielle Giroday Winnipeg Free Press WINNIPEG — The RCMP have been called in to review a case in which a surveillance video shows Winnipeg police beating and Tasering a suspect who appeared to be in the process of surrendering to officers. At the same time, Winnipeg Police Chief Keith McCask ...

An off-duty Chicago police sergeant was involved in a two-car accident on January 2, 2010 that killed a woman in the Mount Greenwood community. The 65-year-old woman was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m., reported the Crook County medical examiner’s office. Four hours earlier, the police sergeant wa ...

By Gabrielle Giroday Winnipeg Free Press WINNIPEG — Some of the 40-plus members of a Winnipeg street gang are travelling between cities in Western Canada in order to evade police, says a report by the Winnipeg Police Service Organized Crime Unit. The report by Det. Ryan Howanyk estimates there ...

Now that's a headline I thought I'd never write.Actually, it's a very unfortunate case involving a tourist who died riding a Banana Boat in the Bahamas which Judge Martinez dismissed on forum non grounds.The original opinion is here.In a thorough opinion by Middle District of Georgia Judge Hugh Laws ...

By Mike McIntyre and Gabrielle Giroday Winnipeg Free Press He is one of Winnipeg’s most high-profile car thieves, whose claim to shame was his role in a high-speed crash that killed a city cab driver. Now the 18-year-old high-risk offender is back in custody, accused of driving a stolen H ...

The Pelosi-Reid Congress, it’s clear, fancies itself among the most consequential Congresses ever. In the House these last ten months, four votes stand out for the historians and political scientists to ponder and dissect -- the final votes on the $787 billion economic stimulus plan, the fiscal-yea ...

By Gabrielle Giroday Winnipeg Free Press She awoke to find a stranger opening her bedroom door, so the petite teen quickly sent her parents a text message for help, fought off the intruder and stopped him from turning his attention toward her little sister. “I told her she’s strong, ...

By Gabrielle Giroday Winnipeg Free Press It was a death that shocked the city and made national headlines as it raised even more questions about Child and Family Services in Manitoba. But more than two years after two-year-old Gage Guimond tumbled down a set of stairs to his death, the relative ...

Oxford University Press will publish a new Journal of International Dispute Settlement from 2010 onwards. The General Editors will be Geneva based scholars Gabrielle Kaufman-K0hler and Joost Pauwelyn, with Thomas Schultz being the Managing Editor.  Since the 1980s, a radical development has taken ...