When James Roszko murdered four young RCMP officers on a farm in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, in the spring of 2005, law enforcement authorities quickly linked the shootings to violence associated with marijuana grow-ops, organized crime and the need for harsher penalties for pot -cultivation.
Subsequent investigations revealed that Roszko, a man with a long history of…
April Lindgren
April Lindgren is a professor at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism and director of the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre. She has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist, editorialist, columnist and television commentator.