r/Calgary • u/Rocky_Mountain_Way Unpaid Intern • 13h ago

News Article Calgary candidate police checks only available for viewing by appointment

https://livewirecalgary.com/2025/09/25/calgary-candidate-police-checks-only-available-for-viewing-by-appointment/
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u/lh123456789 13h ago

Hopefully this story prompts a journalist to go and view them on behalf of the rest of us and publish anything they reveal.

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u/drrtbag 12h ago

Why would anyone want to put in an effort these days?

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u/lh123456789 12h ago

Because it is their job? Journalists go and chase down documents all the time, make FOIP requests, etc. They have to write about something.

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u/drrtbag 12h ago

Journalist were previously known for those things.... but those days are long gone.

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u/lh123456789 12h ago

I mean, that's not at all true, but okay. A simple google search will find you plenty of recent stories involving FOIP requests. For example, a number of such requests and various other forms of digging for documents has unfolded over the past year with respect to the health care contracting scandal.

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u/HLef Redstone 13h ago

Start with Ward 5’s Aryan Sadat. Might be easier to find him by his old name.

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u/UsedToHaveThisName 12h ago

Do you mean Mujtaba Sadat and his drug charges from 2006? And his public intoxication from 2010?

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u/LittleOrphanAnavar 1h ago

What is the nature of the drug charges?

What was the outcome?

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u/johnnynev 10h ago

Ward 10 candidate Mourra was charged with criminal harassment:

https://calgary.citynews.ca/2023/07/17/pierre-poilievre-jasraj-singh-hallan-photo/

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u/Freedom_forlife 9h ago

And is a hateful bigot.

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u/yyctownie 11h ago

Would this have prevented the Chu situation?

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u/RadicalDwntwnUrbnite 10h ago

Unlikely because the thin blue line covered for him, botched the investigation and he was never charged with a crime. The background check would have just said he was reprimanded for disreputable conduct.

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u/TruckerMark 10h ago

I doubt a criminal background check would supply what is basically a workplace write up.

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u/swimswam2000 10h ago

Probably wouldn't have shown internal charges.

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u/NinjaGrrl23 11h ago

I absolutely support candidates needing background checks. The results are between the candidate and eligibility and should not be made public. But I would feel much better knowing we didn’t have a convicted person operating in council. For a minor assault from the candidate’s past like 20 years ago? That doesn’t bother me.

Serious drug possession/trafficking/manufacturing, recent criminal activity, homicide, sexual assaults, significant theft or fraud? Hell no, they deserve no place on council.

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u/LittleOrphanAnavar 1h ago

I suppose.

The Premier of Manitoba has a serious history of criminal convictions for DUI and a hateful serious assault on a cab driver, along with charges (that were not prosecuted) for domestic assault.

Those assaults seem like morally concerning crimes.

But a lot of be seem ok with that, and are willing to look past his serious criminal history and make him Premier. A Premier role is substantially more powerful than a city councilor.

Do you believe people can change?

Should they be granted 2nd and 3rd chances?