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Jun 9 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The Edmonton Police Commission's press release where it compares Chief McFee's $340K yearly salary to other chief salaries is not only blatant media spin but it appears to have a rather large error contained within it. Here it is. #yegcc
The release states that Toronto Chief of Police makes $356K per annum. The Ontario Sunshine List puts the Toronto Chief of Police's 2021 salary at $332K. We've inquired with the Edmonton Police Commission about the discrepancy. Click the link for proof. ontariosunshinelist.com/people/donald-…
The release also uses the 2020 salary for the Ottawa Police of Chief which is $359K. But the 2021 salary is available and former Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly made $341K in 2021. Why use the 2020 salary number? ontariosunshinelist.com/people/peter-s…
There are also some notable omissions from the Edmonton Police Commission police chief salary list.
Victoria - $244K
Montreal - $252K
Halifax - $253K
Regina - $257K
Saskatoon - $244K
The release also includes the salary of the chief of police of the Ontario Provincial Police which is not necessarily a very comparable job to chief of police of a midsize Canadian city.
As you can see from all of this McFee's salary is on the high end of the salary range.
In fact since Chief Sloly in Ottawa got fired McFee might be the second highest paid chief of a municipal police force in Canada. We're still looking into it. But if you just read the EPC release, everything looks normal.
Most media are just going to look at the press release and write a pro forma story. This thread is what you get from indie media that doesn't just reprint press releases. Look for our story and if you haven't yet become a monthly donor and support our work theprogressreport.ca/patrons
A quick correction. Sloly technically resigned.

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