#1 — CBC | Judge’s nude photos ordered returned
A provincial court judge has ordered a Winnipeg man to return sexually explicit pictures of a prominent Manitoba judge to her husband.
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#2 –CBC | Fuel tanker aground in Northwest Passage
A fuel tanker carrying 9½ million litres of diesel fuel has run aground in the Northwest Passage, the Canadian Coast Guard confirmed Thursday.
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#3 — CNews | Maritimes brace for Hurricane Earl
Hurricane Earl continued its northward track Thursday, sparking watches and warnings along the North American east coast, but life in at least one of the Nova Scotia towns in its path carried on as usual.
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#4 — CNews | Police prepare for ‘the worst’ in missing woman case
ORANGEVILLE, Ont. – Police hunting clues to Orangeville nurse Sonia Varaschin’s disappearance fear she may be dead, a lead OPP detective said Thursday.
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#5 — Globe | PM’s top adviser leaving after months of Tory turmoil
Guy Giorno, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s most senior adviser, is stepping down, as the Conservatives seek to recalibrate after a politically troubled summer.
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#6 — LFP | $115M lawsuit launched against G20 police
TORONTO – Two Torontonians are launching a $115-million class-action lawsuit against police on behalf of everyone detained during the G20 protests in July.
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#7 — NP | Harper laughs at ‘bizarre’ Bloc complaints over national park passes
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper ridiculed the Bloc Quebecois Thursday over its complaint that he engaged in federalist propaganda earlier this year by sending a letter to Grade 8 students throughout the country inviting them to use a free pass to visit national parks.
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#8 — OC | Cornwall suspect surrenders
A 17-year-old youth wanted by police in connection with a stabbing death in Cornwall on Aug. 25 turned himself in on Thursday afternoon.
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#9 — MG | Franklin expedition logbooks to be unearthed
GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut — The search for the logbooks of the ill-fated Franklin expedition — the Holy Grail of Arctic exploration history — has taken on new life.
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#10 — Star | ‘Bear dude’ video sets bad example, B.C. minister says
VANCOUVER—The grinning man with greying hair quickly darts backwards as a British Columbia black bear playfully paws at a green pail the man is hoisting before slopping out food for two of the hungry beasts.
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Re:#1. The Judge. Highly respected by her peers Demonstrated of exemplary character. Highly respected by the legal community as a whole. So she foolishly let her crackpot screwball lawyer husband take some picture so of her in private. So what. Her crackpot screwball husband admits his wife knew nothing of what he was up to with Alex Chapman. The ‘victim’….convicted arsonist (since pardoned). Did he burn something down to collect insurance money and thereby attempt to defraud an insurance company? Come’on CBC, get off your collective butts and at least try and find out. Now this lawsuit, is this just a continuing pattern of attempted fraud, a scam. He is breaching a confidentially contract for which he accepted and was paid $25,000 to honour but it is he who is the victim and who is demanding $67M to sooth what he claims are his hurt feelings? By his own demonstrated past deeds his word is at least worthy of some measure of skepticism. He is the purveyor of previous law suits, two against the Winnipeg Police Service. Professional complainer and shyster? IMO he is likely to be made up of the stuff you scrape off the bottom on your shoe after a walk in the dog park. The CBC, too many too highly paid too little initiative producers who haven’t got the time or inclination to do other than a cursory check (if even that) into Chapman’s background. A highly successful woman’s career and in fact her very life has just been ruined by this guy. Who is the genuine victim here? Does anybody really care?
“It seems to me this Alex Chapman fellow is a bit of an oily dude.”
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/columnists/tom_brodbeck/2010/09/02/15231896.html
Re: #1 & #2 — I’m happy to see people coming out to defend Lori. You would have to be blind not to be able to see this situation for the legal shakedown it obviously is. Kudo’s to Christie Blatchford for doing the same thing yesterday.
Why do we continue to fund this poor excuse for a tabloid to the tune of over $1BILLION a year. One can only hope if Canadians give PMSH a majority that one of his first priorities is to axe the CBC. Fire the entire useless lot of them, sell off its equipment and buildings and let’s be rid of it once and for all.
“This reporting was tabloid journalism at its worst, and an unwarranted attack on a respected member of the judiciary who enjoys an outstanding reputation,” Ken Mandzuik, president of the Manitoba Bar Association, said in the letter.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Bar-Association-slams-CBC-over-judge-sex-scandal-coverage-102165144.html
Obvioiusly this information was equally available to the CBC, had they bothered to look.
“The man at the centre of a Manitoba legal sex scandal which has forced the temporary reassignment of a judge has a long litigious history with provincial justice officials, a Free Press analysis has shown.”
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/whistleblower-has-history-of-suing-justice-officials-102134794.html