OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan said she's willing to consider toughening the Liberals' new marijuana law to increase penalties for those who run illegal marijuana grow operations. http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/04/mclellan-marijuana-law050304.html

Newshawk Francouver catches the news coverage on Rochford Bridge, Alberta shootout in which grower with sordid past is found dead with 4 police officers.See a comprehensive coverage of the story through various news networks.

The wife of slain RCMP officer Leo Johnston says she was looking forward to a long and beautiful life together with the man she loved -- a man fate took from her."I've just lost the most important part of my life," Kelly Johnston, surrounded by relatives, told reporters Saturday from Mayerthorpe, Alta.When Myrol's mother made a statement on Friday, she made it political."Prime Minister Paul Martin, we depend on you and we expect you to change the laws and give the courts real power,'' Colleen Myrol from her home in Red Deer, Alta. "Give the power back to the police.''

CALGARY - Marijauna growing is an industry believed to be worth tens of billions of dollars in Canada. In Nov. 2004, police in Barrie, Ont. busted what was considered the largest and most sophisticated grow-op in Canadian history. But smaller operations are hidden in almost every city across the country. "You have to realize there's so many of these we don't have the resources to extend the surveillance on every one of them to firmly establish who lives there and what not. We deal with such a high volume," said Staff-Sgt. Birnie Smith.

CBC Coverage of the Tragic shooting in Alberta by a Gun crazed Grower. http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/04/rcmpshooting-050304.html

ROCHFORT BRIDGE, ALTA. – A raid on a suspected marijuana grow operation in rural Alberta has left five people dead, four of them RCMP officers. It is the single worst multiple killing of RCMP officers in modern Canadian history. http://sask.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=rcmp-shootings050303

A Terry Parker teacher has been arrested after police found forty marijuana plants in his home. Authorities say Lamar Minton was in possession of numerous pot plants, pipes and other drug paraphernalia that were dispersed throughout his house http://www.wtev.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=55311293-CC99-4CE1-95FD-50E37BDFCFD3

OTTAWA - The RCMP's top officer called marijuana grow operations "a plague on our society" as other justice officials urged a crackdown on criminals who run them in the wake of Thursday's murder of four Alberta officers. The real reality is that the Prohibition Stance of Ann McLellan and Chief Zaccardelli are more responsible for the deaths of the 4 Officers in Albereta, than any living marijuana user or grower! http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/03/rcmpreaxn050303.html

VANCOUVER – Simon Fraser University criminologist Neil Boyd says Thursday's shootout that left four Alberta RCMP officers dead points to the growing problem with marijuana grow ops in Canada. http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_rcmp-boyd20050303

The tragic shooting that left four Alberta Mounties dead has sparked a national debate on marijuana policies, with some calling for tougher grow-operation laws, while others say Canadians shouldn't be hasty to link the tragedy to legislation.When asked whether he believed the RCMP officers would be alive if marijuana was decriminalized, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said it was not a rational conclusion to draw.