Who We Become When We Stop Seeing Each Other
A veteran police officer reflects on what happens when a community stops seeing the humanity in each other, and what Alberta is allowing itself to become.
Resilience Is Not Silence: Lessons from a Life in Service
What happens when strength becomes silence? For many who serve, that silence began as discipline and ended as distance. By David Marentette (S/Sgt. RCMP, Counsellor-in-Training) The Honourable Weight of Service Service is honourable work. Every time we put on the …
The Silence of Fathers: Shame, Strength, and Finding Our Voice
By David Marentette — RCMP Veteran (S/Sgt.) & Counsellor-in-Training I recall one of my first nights as a newly trained police officer, barely twenty-one. I was dispatched to a call that became the site of a tragedy I will never …
The Siren Sounds: On noise, empathy, and the quiet crisis reshaping modern society.
By David Marentette — RCMP Veteran (S/Sgt.) & Counsellor-in-Training I. The Hum Beneath the Noise I’ve been a police officer for two decades, and it’s still strange when a siren stops. The silence doesn’t calm me; it exposes how long …