Bob Stenhouse

In 1997, things were looking good for Staff Sergeant Bob Stenhouse. He was climbing faster than most through the ranks of the RCMP, and winning convictions against members of biker gangs.

But then he was promoted again, and watched with growing frustration, as the focus on the force appeared to change from real policing to what he felt were mere public relations campaigns against biker gangs.

When Stenhouse leaked documents that said as much, he triggered the end of his career as an RCMP officer. His subsequent appearance on the fifth estate further exacerbated relations with his bosses. Last year, the Force ordered him to resign…which opened a whole new chapter in his life.

Where he once devoted himself to catching people who fall into a life of crime, he now focuses on reaching them before that happens. He’s a counsellor to men, youths and familes, in Edmonton, with a group called A New Day begins.

“How does change come about? Change, no matter what, in society, change comes about from people that don’t give up and who pursue right, that have a strong sense inside their heart about what is right”

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