RCMP too quick with tasers - report. 'Slap leather!!''

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Constable Jumpstartus suffered from premature electrocution...'That does it! No more taser for you until you get some self control!''

Meanwhile at the offices of the Guinness Book of World Records...'Quite right. Quite right. Can you prove that you were tasered 8 times in one day and lived?'

RCMP, then...and now.'

Ah...here we are...rules of engagment re: tasers, article one...'

Rural RCMP battle under-staffing...'and Lorna had her baby, a girl. They're both doing fine. And young Carl, Bill's son, got a job at Home Hardware�

[Senator Colin Kenny tasers a Mountie.]

I've got no problemo with wardens gettin' handguns. Wardens are cool...I mean it ain't like they're goin' to be runnin' around willy-nilly with tasers...'

New Environment Minister would make damaging wildlife habitat a criminal offense...'Says he was only answering the call of nature. Besides, he says, a seagull did the same thing to his car last week.'

[Canada's concrete actions do not back up its commitment to asserting sovereignty over the Canadian arctic.]

Meanwhile, in Quebec the language police are back...'Unfortunately his first word was English!''

[Russia joins the separatist governments of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in their conflict with Georgia.]

Immigration Canada...'I hope you've read our brochure and are aware of the consequences of running amok?''

[Calgary bylaw officers begin enforcing new smoking bylaw; Calgary has become smoke-free in most public places.]

Aeroflot seizure in Montreal sparks retaliation in Russian airspace...'Apparently we made it mad!!''

'Read in the paper the other day they found rats, right here in Alberta!' 'Liberals!!' 'No, real rats''

Yes, but did Wiarton Willie the groundhog die of natural causes? 'Six more weeks of winter! Six mo...augh!''

Doesn't say anything about poodles. I think we're good.' [Calgary seen as an unfriendly place.]

Anglican bishops veto gay marriages...'No, I'm not Anglican, why do you ask?''

Look, I appreciate how current you are, but he doesn't want to be woof-woof Belinda, or oink-oink MacKay, or blabber-mouth Garth. He wants to be Spiderman!'

Census will ask sexual orientation details...'Okay...so what would you describe yourself as - male? Female? Sometimes male? Sometimes female? Undecided? Still thinking about it?...

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RCMP too quick with tasers - report. 'Slap leather!!''

Vance Rodewalt was the political cartoonist for the Calgary Herald newspaper. Issue: Law enforcement in Canada; Royal Canadian Mounted Police image and reputation; police brutality; use of Tasers. A Mountie fast draws his Taser and shoots a newspaper box.

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Date [ca. 2009]

Creator Rodewalt, Vance

Genre Photographs

Subject Caricatures and cartoons, Royal Canadian Mounted Police--Duties, Royal Canadian Mounted Police--History

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Repository Glenbow Archives

Fonds/Collection Vance Rodewalt fonds

Reference code CA ACU GBA F3016

Link to Finding Aid https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/vance-rodewalt-fonds

Unique identifier CU234907

Legacy Identifier m-9457-1643

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