#1 — CBC | Ontario college teachers accept deal, avert strike
Ontario community college teachers have approved a new collective agreement and will not be going on strike, the Ontario Labour Relations Board confirmed Wednesday afternoon.
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#2 — CBC | Canadian women’s bobsleigh teams win gold, silver
Canada captured its first-ever Olympic medals in women’s bobsleigh Wednesday, taking both gold and silver at the Vancouver Games.
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#3 — CBC | Form change results in drunk driver acquittals
A change in the form used by police to record breath samples of suspected drunk drivers is leading to acquittals and has some Saskatchewan judges looking for answers about why the forms were changed.
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#4 — Globe | Tories to sell two-sided budget with two-sided tale
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is poised to release a two-headed budget next week, one that includes billions in aggressive stimulus spending yet also braces the public for lean times ahead.
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Globe | Defence priorities subject to tough budget decisions
#5 — Globe | Less than half of Chalk River repairs completed
Less than half of the repairs to the Chalk River nuclear reactor have been completed, federal regulators said Wednesday, an admission that could mean the site won’t be up and running by the end of April as planned.
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#6 — LFP | Officials to probe ‘sudden’ deaths of 3 soldiers
BARRIE – The ‘sudden’ deaths of three Base Borden soldiers are being probed by police and military officials.
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#7 — NP | Killer got ‘money’s worth’ in court action
The bold legal challenge an accused Toronto Mafia boss made to prevent serious police allegations of underworld activities interfering with his release from prison will cost him thousands more now that a judge has ordered him to pay the government’s legal bills.
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#8 — NP | Tamil Tiger defeat could lead to bombings here, report says
Canadian security officials are concerned that last year’s defeat of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels could trigger attacks like the 1985 Air India bombings, says a new report.
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#9 — OC | Ontario government to get rid of fiery ombudsman
TORONTO – The provincial Liberal government, frequently on the receiving end of Ombudsman Andre Marin’s criticism, says it will not renew Marin’s contract, though he’s free to reapply for his job.
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#10 — Star | RCMP to start packing cameras
OTTAWA–Get out of the car with your hands up. You’re on candid camera.
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Re: RCMP to start packing cameras - That’s funny, I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count the number of times police have asked me why I’m taking pictures of them, what I’m going to do with them, “can I look at your camera?“, and attempted to discourage me from taking pictures of them…. and now they’re gonna be walking around with little video cameras clipped to their shirt/jacket/vest taking roving images of the average citizen.
$850 isn’t actually that bad for something like that – maybe I’ll consider getting one and wearing it to the demos so they don’t know they’re being filmed either.
stageleft:
It’s all about those new Samsung cameras. You can take the pictures/videos and automatically upload to Facebook/Youtube. They can smash your camera all they want after that.
Most cellphones (Blackberry for sure) have the same capability. Pictures and videos can be both timestamped and geo-tagged, allowing every civilian to be a walking journalism team.