Learn all about the R.C.M.P. with your students. Contact your local R.C.M.P. detachment and arrange to have an officer speak to your class. Prepare your class by developing appropriate interview questions. Information and worksheets include: The History of the R.C.M.P., R.C.M.P. Training & Duties, The Musical Ride, Dogs, Uniforms, and Crime Detection & Fingerprinting.
This is the true story of an unusual hero. Tall, dark and handsome and often surrounded by an admiring crowd, this is no film star but an eight-year-old bay gelding from the Mounted Branch of the Metropolitan Police.From the Royal Wedding to the London riots to entertaining visitors outside Buckingham Palace, Merlin's career as a top police horse has been full of drama and unexpected challenges and his brave and loyal efforts have earned him celebrity status.Horses such as Merlin go through a challenging training process to prepare them for a life in the force. There are three stages of training: red, amber and green. Reports show that the young Merlin was sometimes naughty and spirited - but once his training was complete he was disciplined enough to maintain order at some of the toughest and most high profile events in London.This book looks at Merlin's daily life and duties and his fascinating partnership with his mounted police constable, Karen Howell. When Karen first met Merlin during his training it was love at first sight and over the years she has developed an intriguing bond with this brave, eccentric and deeply individual character.Including extracts from 'Merlin's Diary' and in-depth interviews with the officers who trained and work with Merlin day-to-day this book examines the extraordinary partnership between humans and horses in the modern police service. The author also delves into the surprising history of police horses in Britain and looks at how horses are a key part of law enforcement around the world.
A personal story of one married Roman Catholic male's attempt to become a priest. This is the story of Ron Eberley's so-far futile effort to become a married priest. It is also a clear account of the chequered history and tortuous theology of mandatory celibacy.
During the parliamentary years, from his first election in 1979 to his appointment to London in 1996, MacLaren draws on his diary to offer impressions - at times devastating, at others sympathetic - of those he encountered in his several ministerial capacities and global travels. Earlier, life in Saigon and Hanoi following the French Indo-China war, the oppressions of the Stalinist regime in Czechoslovakia, the erection of the Berlin Wall, multilateral diplomacy at the United Nations in Geneva and New York during the Cold War are recounted with both insight and humility. Of his business career, MacLaren offers, for example, an insider's perspective on the collapse of Massey-Ferguson and the successes of his business magazine company. A political memoir set in an autobiography, The Fundamental Things Apply ranges widely over Canadian economic and international affairs, including NAFTA and deficit elimination, during the latter decades of the twentieth century, offering a timely and personal account of how the public policies - both domestic and international - pursued then were formative in creating the country we live in today.
Features: The White Tops by Ken Wheeling - Page 79 The Wheeler Survey in Nevada: The Odometer Carriage - Page 92 Music to My Ears by William Stewart - Page 104 Additional Articles: 2018 International Carriage Symposium The Brewster Project by Merri Ferrell - Page 70 On Location in Arizona by Trish Demers - Page 72 NER/CAA Learning Weekend by Kristen W. Retter - Page 74 Driving the Horse in Harness: A Beginner's Manual - Part V by Charles Kellogg - Page 84 Conserving A Mitchell Farm Wagon by Jerry and Laurie Bowman - Page 92 Some Faults of Harness Horses by Tom Ryder - Page 96 Horse-seining by Gregory Cuffey - Page 128
Horses, horsemanship, and horse sport have been a part of mankind since time began. This book is full of short, fun and informative reads, great for busy on the go horse people, or for those who enjoy some history and trivia, with a dash of mystery thrown in!! All About Horses -2 is also available!
Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Contemporary Criminological Issues tackles some of today’s most pressing social issues, from the criminalization of Indigenous peoples to interpersonal violence, border control, and armed conflicts. This book advances cutting-edge theories and methods, with the aim of moving beyond the scholarship that reproduces insecurity and exclusion. The breadth of approaches encompasses much of the current critical criminological scholarship, serving as a counterpoint to the growth of managerial and administrative criminologies and the rise of explicitly exclusionary and punitive state policies and practices with respect to ‘crime’ and ‘security.’ This edited collection featuring two books, one in English and one in French, includes important contributions to knowledge and public policy by eminent experts and emerging scholars. This book is published in English.
This is the story of a divorced, Irish-American woman who has fought hard for the stability and security she has at last found in her life; of a man of Native Canadian/Italian heritage who has thrown himself into his work as a detective with the RCMP to fill the void left from his broken marriage; and the outlaw biker gang that has taken any sense of security or normalcy from their lives and blown it straight to hell, while drawing them closer together. It takes the reader from Yonkers to Quebec and Ontario and back, along scenic highways and winding back roads, on the back of a $13,000 Ducati and in the seat of a Bell 427 helicopter. It has high-tech police surveillance operations and a quasi-primitive rescue on horseback. The feel is very up to the minute, incorporating changes in things such as security measures in ground and air traffic, police work and even people's behavior, in the aftermath of September 11th. It deals with the violence and tragedy (and camaraderie and humor) that is all a part of police work, as well as the excitement and joy (and mistakes and regrets) of a fledgeling relationship.
