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RCMP Charges CAF Members For Trying to Start Anti- Government Group- July 08/ 2025

Sprinting Thistle said:
And we can't forget the 1998 gun fight at the Calgary Mall. An NCO from 3RCR on pre-deployment leave trying to make a withdrawal from two Brinks guards delivering money to the bank. He had used pyrotechnics in the action having taken the items from work-up training.
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Darnell Bass. I was posted to Petawawa at the time and I recall people collecting money for him.

And no, I did not donate.
 
There was also a Commissionaire who was murdered in Quebec when some of the troops broke into the armoury at night to steal weapons for a FLQ related group.
 
Kilted said:
There was also a Commissionaire who was murdered in Quebec when some of the troops broke into the armoury at night to steal weapons for a FLQ related group.
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One of those guys tried to reapply to the CAF after he did his time.
 
Sprinting Thistle said:
And we can't forget the 1998 gun fight at the Calgary Mall. An NCO from 3RCR on pre-deployment leave trying to make a withdrawal from two Brinks guards delivering money to the bank. He had used pyrotechnics in the action having taken the items from work-up training.
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Actually, it was in March 1997, though the Canadian soldier involved was sentenced the following year.

Soldier blames Airborne for robbery. CBC News · Posted: Dec 01, 1998 1:32 PM MST | Last Updated: December 1, 1998

A former paratrooper says he couldn't deal with the disbanding of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, so he tried to make off with $400,000 in the most violent holdup in Calgary history.

Sgt. Darnell Bass and an accomplice dressed as security guards in the 1997 military-style heist, during which 88 rounds of ammunition were fired at two armoured car staff.

Bass's preliminary hearing ended quickly yesterday when he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of conspiracy to commit robbery. He was promptly sentenced to seven years in prison.
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Bass, who served with the Airborne during its Somalia peacekeeping mission, said he turned to crime in his depression over the disbanding of his regiment.

In April he appeared before a parliamentary committee to plea for more public respect for the military.

The judge called Bass a disgrace to Canada's military.

Patrick Ryan is also facing charges in the March 1997 holdup. He's a childhood friend of Bass and has been arrested in France. He's charged with attempted murder and attempted robbery in connection with the same incident.
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His accomplice was on the run for longer

SA link to Canada cash heist

Suzanne Wilton and Sasha Nagy Canadian fugitive Patrick Steven Ryan’s ties to extreme right-wing groups in South Africa have become part of a Calgary police investigation into his role in the violent armed robbery of an armoured car last March. Ryan, whose connections to white- supremacist...
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Canadian fugitive Patrick Steven Ryan’s ties to extreme right-wing groups in South Africa have become part of a Calgary police investigation into his role in the violent armed robbery of an armoured car last March.

Ryan, whose connections to white- supremacist groups are also part of the investigation, visited South Africa on at least two occasions, once in 1994 and again in 1997.

“We are aware of connections [Ryan] had with individuals in South Africa,” Calgary police Staff Sergeant Mike Cullen confirmed. “I don’t know of any specific connections with any organisations in South Africa at this point in time.”
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Ryan claimed, in communication to other people, to have met a former high-ranking member of the apartheid- era government while travelling in South Africa in 1994. The official had ties to the Koevoet hit-squad and the South African Police.

A company registered by Ryan showed his interest in the country. In 1995 he started an import-export business under the trade name Assegai Imports.

Ryan is alleged to have been involved in “nefarious” and mercenary activities by his former employer, armoured-car service Brink’s Canada. He is charged with robbery in connection with a March 19 attack at a Calgary shopping mall.
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Two men dressed in military-style clothing lay in wait of a scheduled bank deposit and ambushed the Brink’s guards with AK-47 rifles. The guards returned fire.

The gunmen fled after dispensing teargas. They escaped empty-handed. A subsequent police investigation has tied the suspects to numerous other successful robberies across the country.

Shortly after the Calgary heist, Ryan hired a lawyer to send a letter to the company, asking Brink’s to stop slandering him.
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Childhood friend Sergeant Darnell Bass, an elite soldier and paratrooper with the Canadian Armed Forces, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and armed robbery in connection with the attack, in which more than 80 rounds of automatic- weapon gunfire were exchanged.

One day after Bass was arrested on July 16, a Calgary police investigation executed several search warrants in Ottawa producing a major cache of weapons, including grenade launchers, tear-gas canisters and automatic weapons.

Guns and a computer were seized in a raid six days later in Calgary at the residence police believe belonged to Ryan. He has not been seen for the past three weeks.
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Ryan’s passion for Adolf Hitler, neo- Nazi paraphernalia and other diverse “white power” literature was uncovered after police blew open the door to his basement.

Cullen confirmed that the Brink’s investigation is not limited to Canada. He would not name the agencies involved, but confirmed they are located both in Canada and abroad.

“We have been co-operating and providing information to other agencies and we have been getting co- operation with other agencies,” Cullen said.
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“As to whether they are pursuing other investigations, I can’t really say.”

A former guard who said he worked with Ryan at Brink’s and spoke on condition of anonymity said Ryan bragged of his access to weapons and activities in South Africa as a mercenary. – Calgary Herald
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FSTO said:
CBC The Current insists the CAF is a hotbed of far right extremism ( my opinion of the episode)

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How deep does extremism run in Canada’s Armed Forces?

Podcast Episode · The Current · 2025-07-10 · 19m
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RCMP said:
Quite often we would see a desire to create a new society, a desire to live by different values, and wanting to change or create some kind of chaos so they can take over society to create it and live it the way they want.
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Suppose a few groups could be painted with this brush.
 
I think “hotbed” is a bit overblown, but I’m not shocked that people interested in militaristic and nationalist ideologies would also be attracted to a career in the military. It’s not hard to answer “No” to the “Are you a fascist?” question.
 
Jarnhamar said:
Suppose a few groups could be painted with this brush.
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Radicalization can happen in a lot of different directions. Lots of people feel fucked over, but some attempted (alleged?) “solutions” are more legal than others, and it only takes a few being high-grade stupid to make the rest of the fucked-over look sub-optimal, rightly or wrongly.
 
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Blackadder1916 said:
He wasn't a Reservist. Denis was a Reg Force Sup Tech at the Diefenbunker. It was easy to get the SMGs and ammo, he had the keys to the weapons locker. He lived down the street from me on Uplands.
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Quite right. Corporal Lortie was regular force. He was "disarmed/ calmed down" by the quick and smart action of another Reg Force person: National Assembly Sergeant-at-arms - Retired vandoos Major Rene Jalbert. A man who had served in Europe during WWII and Korea as part of the special force. Jalbert's quick wit and coolness in a crisis probably saved a lot of lives that day.

If the media are going to paly the "Armed Forces = scarry" card, they should also acknowledge when "calm/carrying out your duty" under fire happens.
 
It's Tommy this and Tommy that.
And chuck the brute out.
But it's please Mr Atkins and thank you, Mr. Atkins.
When the drums begin to roll.
 
Kilted said:
There was also a Commissionaire who was murdered in Quebec when some of the troops broke into the armoury at night to steal weapons for a FLQ related group.
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Did not know that. My impression was it was a criminal group that carried it out, not a FLQ group. IIRC didn't they recover the firearms stolen?
 
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