Catherine Anne Galliford: Dec. 28, 1966 - Aug. 15, 2025
There they are in their red serge, beaming happily in the photo taken by one of their dads on that hot day in late August 1991: Nine female graduates in a class of 32, fresh from the six-month Cadet Training Program in Regina and excited to be stepping into their careers as RCMP officers. Newly minted constable Catherine Galliford is in the photo, second from the left. Nobody knew it yet, but years of sexual harassment, assault and bullying within the RCMP lay ahead for some of these young officers. One would die by suicide. Some of the grads tried to stay in touch as the years passed. But it wasn’t until Ms. Galliford’s explosive CBC interview in 2011 alleging years of workplace abuse in the RCMP that they realized just how much they had in common. That interview was the spark that brought more than 3,000 RCMP officers forward to detail their own allegations of workplace harassment and sexual assault. “It struck such a chord in so many of us, because we were dealing with the exact sam...