Oct. 11, 2013 – Global News
Ottawa could face a legal showdown with some of Vancouver’s hardest-core addicts as they’re cut off from government-supplied heroin doctors say is their only viable treatment option.
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Why is Canada’s privacy czar worried about the country’s cyber-spying agency? (and what’s she doing about it?)
Oct. 8, 2013 – Global News
Concerned for Canadians’ privacy online amid mushrooming revelations into U.S. cyber-spying, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart approached the watchdog overseeing Canada’s electronic espionage agency and offered to help him.
Journalists have a right to see VIA terror plot search warrants, judge rules
Sept. 30, 2013 – Global News
Journalists have a right to see search warrants in the VIA Rail terror plot, a judge has ruled, coming to almost the opposite conclusion regarding wiretaps as a judge making the same call in the Project Traveller case.
Five months (and counting) into CNRL spill, questions of why more wasn’t done after 2009 leak
Sept. 27, 2013 – Global News
A series of spills in northern Alberta is still oozing bitumen more than five months after the leaks began. And with no end in sight, Alberta’s Environment Ministry has taken what it says is an unprecedented step, asking Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. to partially drain an oil-soaked water body before it freezes this winter and traps a bitumen gash underneath it.
Reality check: Is Health Canada giving addicts free heroin?
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
The short answer is yes. Kinda: Health Canada has approved funding for medically administered heroin for 16 addicts – and only these 16 – under its Special Access Program. The program’s designed to provide nonmarketed drugs to people suffering from “serious or life-threatening conditions when conventional therapies have failed, are unsuitable, or unavailable.”
It has since been slammed by Health Minister Rona Ambrose on the grounds that its decision contradicts Conservative government policy.
Bus crash: Safety plans for Ottawa rail crossing were shelved even as area’s population grew
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
The level train crossing where a fatal collision sheared the front off a bus, killed six people and injured 34 others was flagged as a safety hazard more than a decade ago. In the years since, a plan to separate vehicle traffic was scrapped, even as the roadway got much, much busier.
Household survey or long-form census? Tories to choose (again) for 2016
Anna Mehler Paperny and Rebecca Lindell – Global News
TORONTO and OTTAWA – Just when you thought the national fulmination over the National Household Survey was over, Canadians will choose once again how to count themselves.
Or rather, their federal representatives will.
Wiretaps in Project Traveller warrants should be kept secret: Judge
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Warrants with wiretaps can be kept from the public, an Ontario judge has ruled.
That means a slew of search warrants connected to Toronto Police’s Project Traveller raids will be kept redacted for now, despite efforts from several media organizations – Global News included – to have them released.
Poll: Rest of Canada decries Quebec’s charter, but opposes some religious symbols
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Canadians outside Quebec say they oppose that province’s proposed Charter of Values – but that doesn’t mean they’re comfortable with all religious symbols in the public sphere: More than two-thirds of respondents to an Angus-Reid poll released Wednesday would ban kirpans; almost as many would prohibit public servants from wearing burqas.
Sona told Tory staffers about Robocall involvement, investigator alleges
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News
Michael Sona told “several” friends he was involved in making misleading calls directing Guelph voters to nonexistent polling stations in the May, 2011 election, court documents allege.
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