Dec. 4, 2013 – Global News
Weeks before the alleged crack video was shown to reporters, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford offered “five thousand and a car” to get it back, newly released court documents allege.
Mayor Rob Ford files: ‘Alana is not a sex trade worker’
Nov. 14, 2013 – Global News
TORONTO- Alana Kindree is laying low, changing her phone number and wondering how she came to be characterized in court documents as someone who “may have been an escort or prostitute.”
Deputy Mayor: Rob Ford needs a council-approved driver ‘so he’s always with someone’
Nov. 4, 2013 – Global News
Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly is ok with Rob Ford’s decision to stay on as mayor amid cascading revelations around an alleged crack video – but not without some strings attached.
“He’s made a pact with the residents of Toronto: ‘I will be on my best behaviour; I will do everything I can to stay the new course,’” Kelly said. “And I think that Torontonians will strictly hold him to those standards.”
Are you in Canada’s cyberspy data banks? Maybe. But good luck getting that info
Oct. 26, 2013 – Global News
Canada’s cyber-surveillance body isn’t allowed to target Canadians. But it keeps information banks with Canadians’ personal details.
A spokesperson for the Communications Security Establishment said in an email the “vast majority” of personal information kept indefinitely in the digital surveillance agency’s information banks belongs to non-Canadians. But if they have information on you, chances are slim you’ll get to see it.
Pop quiz: How much is Toronto actually paying for its Scarborough subway?
Oct. 25, 2013 – Global News
What’s the difference between Oakville and Mississauga gas plants, scrapped mid-campaign 2011, and Scarborough light-rail transit, scrapped mid-campaign 2013?
This time, the province isn’t on the hook for the costs of the last-minute switch: Toronto is. And we still don’t know how much that’ll be.
Toronto cyclist accident: Ontario coroner calls (again) for side guards on trucks; Ottawa says no
Oct. 16, 2013 – Global News
Ontario’s coroner renewed calls for mandatory side guards on trucks Wednesday, hours after a 25-year-old woman was crushed almost to death beneath the wheels of a truck in downtown Toronto.
Feds could face legal showdown over right to prescription heroin
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.
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.
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