The RCMP’s iconic Musical Ride program is foundering as an internal audit found pervasive low morale and worsening staffing issues are putting the iconic unit’s sustainability at risk.

Hooves marching in formation, officers in Red Serge atop horses as they perform intricate drills in front of awed audiences, this is the tradition of the famous RCMP Musical Ride. The North-West ...

At precisely 2:30 p.m., 16 horses, dark and polished, canter into the arena at the Nutrien Western Event Centre, their gait synchronized and demeanour calm. On each horse sits an RCMP soldier, each ...

Maxwell Newhouse remembers the earth quivering below his feet when 32 riders wearing bright scarlet jackets, on top of their large black horses, moved across a field in seamless patterns. It was 25 ...

OTTAWA (CTV Network) — They’ve dazzled audiences and performed all over with the Musical Ride but for the first time, the RCMP is hoping Canadians can help their jet black horses enjoy ...

Caption: RCMP Musical Ride members escort Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip to the legislature in Winnipeg on July 15, 1970. (Peter Bregg/The Canadian Press) Load Image ...

The RCMP brought its Musical Ride to the Bernard Constant Community School grounds at James Smith Cree Nation Tuesday. Bad weather did not dampen any enthusiasm among the community members.

It all started in 1873, as the then North-West Mounted Police, carried out their duties on horseback while traversing through the Prairies. Members would spend… ...

RCMP Deputy Commissioner Mark Flynn, sitting next to his mother, waves at Musical Ride attendees as he is brought by horse-drawn carriage to attend the Musical Ride’s Sunset Ceremony in Ottawa ...