#1 — CNews | Cellblock video shows another mistreatment
OTTAWA – The same female special constable seen kneeing Stacy Bonds in a disturbing cellblock video was videotaped just one year later kicking a homeless prisoner in an incident a judge called “profoundly disturbing.”
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#2 — CNews | Teen’s airport pat-down investigated
TORONTO — The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority has launched an investigation into the formal complaint filed earlier this week by the mother of a teen girl subjected to a humiliating full-body pat-down.
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#3 — Globe | An ominous flight pattern: Canadians opting for U.S. airports
When Joseph Fooks and his parents decided to fly to New York for a long weekend, they could have headed to Pearson International Airport, a mere 30 minutes away from their home in Richmond Hill, Ont. Instead, they packed up their new Lexus SUV and made the three-hour drive across the border to Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
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#4 — Globe | Elections BC blasted for changing recall rules after petition filed
Elections BC’s drafting of new recall rules after anti-HST organizers had already submitted their petition against a Vancouver Island MLA reeks of incompetence and “amateur hour,” says a political scientist.
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#5 — Globe | Ottawa gives low-income seniors a break
A new policy that would have lead thousands of low-income seniors to unknowingly surrender their federal-income support is now on hold and under review after its potential impact was reported in The Globe and Mail.
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#6 — LFP | Federal byelections Monday are local affairs: Prof
OTTAWA — The political future of Canada probably doesn’t hang in the balance of Monday’s byelections, according to the experts.
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#7 — MP | N.S. band councillors pay dispute sparks fears of violence
HALIFAX — A member of the Glooscap First Nation in Nova Scotia is warning that tensions on the Mi’kmaq reserve may escalate into violence, following revelations this week that its elected leaders have been quietly collecting huge salaries.
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#8 — OC | Old ways die hard, even for Senate critic Harper
OTTAWA — A majority of the 36 senators appointed by Stephen Harper have close ties to the prime minister and the Conservative party — despite Harper’s previous scathing criticism of the upper chamber as a patronage dumping ground for Liberal “cronies.”
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#9 — MG | Serial killer to appear before parole board
Unfortunately, Clifford Olson is “very real.”
That is something the families of the victims of one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers know all too well.
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#10 — Star | When police are guilty of FIDO — forget it, drive on
A police officer was praised this week for spotting a suspicious vehicle and knocking on Jessica Lloyd’s door the night she was abducted and later murdered.
“She did more than a lot of officers would have done,” Belleville police Chief Cory McMullan said.
McMullan’s remarks beg the question: What would other officers have done?
Forget it, drive on?
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Re: Old ways die hard, even for Senate critic Harper – The Canadian electorate has yet to learn that that words and phrases like "transparency", "accountability", "ending cronyism",etc, are simply campaign rhetoric and nothing more.
As soon as they achieve power the rewarding friends, the breaking campaign promises, and the milking of the system, begins.
The Liberals did it, the Conservatives are doing it, and the NDP would do it given the opportunity.