SecurTek Monitoring Solutions has partnered with WiredTime and launched SecurChek: A service that combines trained guards and a device that enables machine to machine communication.

G4S Canada has appointed Jean Pierre Taillon to lead both its security and cash solutions businesses in Canada.

OTTAWA — The Conservatives’ tough-on-crime agenda is weakened by federal budget cuts, the union representing border guards said Thursday.

A Wildrose party MLA admits he had some heated words with a legislature security guard after he mistakenly parked his truck in a stall set aside for the premier.

A Winnipeg security guard who was stabbed last week while trying to stop a car thief was so dedicated to his job he returned hours later after being treated in hospital and apologized to his boss for not finishing his shift.

Garda World Security Corp. has lined up $275 million in financing commitments to fund its growth.

MPs on the Commons justice committee have been told that private security guards outnumber police at least two-to-one in this country and the ratio is only going to increase.

B.C.'s Human Rights Tribunal says there is not enough evidence to prove a group of privately paid security guards discriminates against the homeless and drug users in Vancouver.

The Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association says the ruling clears the members of its Downtown Ambassadors program of allegations of harassment or discrimination against the homeless and drug addicted in the downtown core.

The tribunal ruling ends an investigation that began four years ago with complaints that the red-shirted ambassadors were targeting certain people, forcing them away from downtown businesses.

The association argues its ambassadors are paid to help street people, protect downtown business property and also provide tourism information.

Ontario Provincial Police in Sudbury have laid 141 charges against a private security business and two of its directors.

A decision by Garda Security Group to lay off 68 airport screeners at Pearson International Airport does not threaten passenger security, the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority says.