#1 — Yahoo | Harper says all countries need to be in climate deal
SINGAPORE – Prime Minister Stephen Harper says there are environmental and economic reasons to insist that both developed and emerging economies agree on the next round of climate change rules.
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#2 — CBC | Women ski jumpers lose appeal
Women ski jumpers from Canada and the U.S. hoping to have their event included in the 2010 Olympics have lost their case before the B.C. Court of Appeal.
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#3 — CBC | Latimer loses appeal on parole
There is nothing wrong with a recent decision on Robert Latimer’s parole conditions, the appeals division of the National Parole Board has ruled.
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#4 — CTV | Province’s deputy minister of health resigns
The province’s top health bureaucrat has resigned weeks after being grilled by a legislature committed about the problems at eHealth Ontario.
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#5 — CTV | Prosecutor seeks life sentence for Que.-based terrorist
MONTREAL — Prosecutors want a life sentence for a Quebec man found guilty on terrorism charges, even if his loosely constructed plan to bomb targets in Germany and Austria never came to fruition.
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#6 — Globe | Licence plates to honour troops called ‘offensive gimmick’
It’s “offensive” and “misleading” for the Ontario government to promise to donate a portion of the sale price from new “Support our Troops” licence plates to help military families and then give only a tiny fraction to charity, opposition critics charged on Thursday.
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#7 — Globe | OPP chief ordered to retake witness stand
Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino has been ordered to go back to the witness stand and pay $20,000 in costs to two officers in whose disciplinary hearing the commissioner had been subpoenaed to testify.
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#8 — NP | Ivison: Ignatieff slips closer to Dion territory
The good news for Michael Ignatieff in a new Nanos Research poll is that he is still more popular than was his predecessor, Stéphane Dion, after he lost the last general election just over a year ago.
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#9 — OC | Baby-boom exodus threatens policing
Canada’s police will soon need to double or triple officer hiring or make consequential changes in the way they fight crime, including abandoning some classic duties.
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CORNWALL, ONT.–From beyond where the moon sparkled on the river came the sound of a high-powered motorboat. The engine throttled back for an instant, as if waiting for a signal.
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Re Baby-boom exodus threatens policing: Maybe if they quit enforcing some of the useless nanny state laws shoved on to us by various levels of government they’d have an easier job of it — recreational drugs, cell phone laws, and prostitution come immediately to mind.
Re Chasing smoke: see above…….
This Latimer issue is such a bunch of utter nonsense. The parole board regularily releases genuinely dangerous individuals into society with incredibly lax restrictions. They claim they either have no choice or ‘stuff kleenex in their alarm bell’ so that they can claim they didn’t hear it. Robert Latimer poses zero danger to the public yet the appointees on the Parole Board can’t refrain from flexing their muscles when they feel they can get away with it. Hyprocrites.
For once, stageleft and I agree completely…
Quote from #9- Police also must counter negative influences and messages toward a policing career from some parents, educators and media, he says.
“‘You don’t want to be a cop, it’s dangerous, it’s hard on your emotional health, it’s hard on marriages.’ You get this sort of negative social marketing.”
Only one slight problem with countering this sort of negative social marketing… all of those things are true. The Brown Task Force described the RCMP as being “tragically broken” and the “change management” process isn’t making much headway, in part because of inadvertent political interference (like we needed another G8 summit and massive budget cuts!) but mainly because many of those involved in the administration of change management ARE part of the problem.
but mainly because many of those involved in the administration of change management ARE part of the problem.
Amen to that Mac!