Family members of a Calgary senior struck and killed by a cyclist who ran a red light believes the justice system has failed them.

When Det. Tom Bain illegally removed a Glock pistol from a Calgary police locker with the intention of killing himself, he had hit “rock bottom,” his lawyer said Thursday.

A Calgary police officer who is charged with perjury, accused of lying under oath, has a history of getting into trouble with his employer, CBC News has learned.

Investors were devastated by a greed-motivated, multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Calgarians Gary Sorenson and Milowe Brost, a judge said in sentencing the pair to 12 years in prison on Tuesday.

Alberta in the mid-2000s was fertile ground for promoters and salesmen like Gary Sorenson and Milowe Brost.

After orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in Canadian history, Milowe Brost and Gary Sorenson are out of prison after serving just over two years of their 12-year sentences, according to parole documents obtained by CBC News.

Gary Sorenson and Milowe Brost were sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday for what is billed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in Canadian history.

A man who helped bring Canada’s largest Ponzi scheme to light is flabbergasted at the news that the two men convicted of the crime are already out of jail.

The man facing first-degree murder charges in the decapitation of a Lloydminster, Alta., man in October is also charged in two other homicides.

The jury trial for a Regina woman charged with defrauding investors of more than $5 million is now scheduled to begin in September 2018, 10 months later than originally planned.