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After more than eight years as a prison guard at the maximum-security Edmonton Institution, “Jessica” stopped wearing her body armour to work.
According to a statement of claim filed with the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, by January 2016, “Jessica was suicidal…. She would hope that an inmate would stab her to end her ordeal.”
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Canada’s private-sector privacy law was first introduced 20 years ago, coinciding with the founding of Google and predating Facebook, the iPhone and the myriad of smart devices that millions of Canadians now have in their homes. Two decades is a long time in the world of technology and privacy, and it shows. There has been modest tinkering with the Canadian rules over the years, but law is struggling to remain relevant in a digital age when our personal information becomes increasingly valuable and our consent models are little more than a legal fiction.
Read more at The Globe and Mail
An Edmonton police officer broke the law and breached an Indigenous man’s rights during a 2015 arrest, an Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench justice has ruled.
But the Indigenous man wasn’t carded or racially profiled, the justice concluded.
In the ruling, Justice Ritu Khullar quashed the minor drug conviction of William Kenowesequape that led to 26 days in jail and the confiscation of his bicycle for more than a year.
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An investigation into a staff member’s harassment complaint against Calgary MP Darshan Kang concluded he violated House of Commons rules.
The investigation into Rhea Bassi’s complaint was called last summer by Pierre Parent, chief human resources officer of the House of Commons.
Bassi started working for Kang in his Calgary Skyview riding office in 2015, previously worked for him from 2011 to 2015 while he was an Alberta Liberal member of the legislature.
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Tuesday’s federal budget will establish a national advisory group with former Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins at the helm that will work towards setting up a Canada-wide pharmacare plan, sources say.
Hoskins himself dropped a major clue about the no-longer-so-secret plan Monday when he abruptly resigned both his cabinet position and his seat in the provincial legislature, saying he was leaving “to continue building better health care for all Canadians” and that his “path and journey will become clearer in the days ahead.”
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A Surrey businessman convicted in a 1986 terrorist shooting in B.C. posed with Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and a Canadian cabinet minister during the prime minister’s trip to India.
Jaspal Atwal, a one-time member of the now-banned International Sikh Youth Federation, had also been invited to a dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Canadian High Commission in Delhi on Thursday night.
Read more at Vancouver Sun
Police are investigating after an officer allegedly became intoxicated while he was guarding a body in a northwest Toronto apartment, multiple sources told CBC Toronto.
The officer was called to the Humberline Drive home for a report of a sudden death on January 28. After the coroner arrived to the scene, the officer allegedly got into his police vehicle and started to drive back to a station, according to the sources.
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A 13-year veteran of the Ontario Provincial Police has been charged with assault and weapons offences following a domestic dispute in Augusta Township last month.
Grenville OPP responded to a domestic call on Jan. 20 that involved the off-duty OPP officer, police reported Monday.
After an investigation, the 44-year-old male officer was arrested and charged with assault, two counts of assault with a weapon, mischief and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
The officer appeared before the Ontario Court of Justice in Brockville and he has been assigned to administrative duties.
Read more at Recorder.ca
Two whistleblowers whose private information was leaked in brown envelopes from Prince Edward Island’s government to the Liberal Party say they won’t fade away without being compensated for the economic and emotional toll on their lives.
A report released last month by the privacy commissioner — completed six years after the initial complaint — found the province breached the basic privacy rights of three women who held a September 2011 news conference to allege fraud and bribery in a provincial immigration program.
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Ontario’s former privacy commissioner says human rights are at stake if Hamilton city council debates letting residents and businesses point their security cameras at the street.
Privacy expert Ann Cavoukian says the city’s current bylaw, which only lets people point cameras at their own property, is a good one.
Read more at CBC News