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Toronto police who allegedly ate pot edibles on duty called for help after ‘hallucinations’

January 29, 2018

Two Toronto police officers who allegedly ingested marijuana edibles, hallucinated and called for help while on duty Sunday have been suspended, CBC News has learned.

Both officers are under investigation by the force’s professional standards unit following an incident that happened Sunday, according to Mark Pugash, a spokesperson for Toronto Police Service.

Read more at CBC News

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: toronto police

Professor put on leave after allegedly mocking U of G student with ‘severe anxiety’

January 17, 2018

A professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario has been put on a leave of absence following allegations he referred to a student’s aid worker as his “handler” who “needed to control” the student in a class Monday night.

The substitute teacher is the subject of allegations by other students.

Read more at CBC News

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: disrespectful comments, professor abusing authority, verbal abuse

Ontario premier calls cutbacks to health benefits for Tim Hortons staff ‘bullying’

January 4, 2018

TORONTO — The premier of Ontario accused the children of Tim Hortons’ billionaire co-founders Thursday of bullying their employees by reducing their benefits in response to the province’s increased minimum wage.

In a letter dated December 2017, Ron Joyce Jr., son of company co-founder Ron Joyce, and his wife, Jeri Horton-Joyce, who is Tim Hortons’ daughter, told employees at two Tim Hortons restaurants they own in Cobourg, Ont., that as of Jan. 1, they would no longer be entitled to paid breaks, and would have to pay at least half of the cost of their dental and health benefits.

Read more at Edmonton Metro

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: bullying, health benefit cuts

Use of torture-tainted info allowed but limited for military, foreign service

December 14, 2017

New rules introduced in September aimed at limiting the use of torture-tainted information by Canadian law enforcement and spies expanded Thursday to include the military, the foreign service, and the country’s foreign signals intelligence agency.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale issued a ministerial directive in September to the RCMP, the CBSA and CSIS that limited but did not forbid the use of information likely derived from torture.

Read more at Global News

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: physical and mental torture

More Americans Are Snubbing US Business Schools For An MBA Experience In Canada

November 23, 2017

Oh, Canada, you kind-hearted, rugged purveyors of the all-denim ensemble. Americans have a…confused relationship with our more civilized neighbors to the North (AOL keyword: healthcare).

It’s possible the volatile mix of envy, contempt, and sheer bewilderment we collectively harbor may have to do with the fact that people might choose to live in Winnipeg or Windsor over Wyoming. The proximity of our two countries only seems to create more distance. The same goes for our mostly shared language, “soorry” and “aboot” notwithstanding.

In the oughts, it wasn’t uncommon to overhear left-leaning Americans make (mostly) empty threats to jump ship if a certain barely literate, hawkish presidential candidate got elected to office (hint: he’s an amateur painter).

Read more at Business Because

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: Canada business schools

40 victims come forward in latest Revenue Canada scam involving Bitcoin ATMs

November 7, 2017

An ongoing Canada Revenue Agency scam has taken a high-tech turn that’s defrauded members of the public out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Police in York Region said 40 victims in the community have sent more than $300,000 to fraudsters using Bitcoin machines.

Police said the victims have been contacted by phone and told that they have overdue taxes to pay and if they don’t, they will be arrested. In the recent cases, the victims have been told to send their money using Bitcoin ATMs.

Read more at City News

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: bitcoin fraud, fraud, revenue canada scam

CCTV ‘highly privacy invasive’ and lacks security after Cape Breton school streamed to Russian site: Report

October 12, 2017

HALIFAX — Inadequate passwords and insufficient technical controls led to video surveillance images of Cape Breton schoolchildren being live streamed on the internet, Nova Scotia’s information and privacy commissioner says.

Catherine Tully’s report says the video system at the Rankin School of the Narrows in Iona, N.S., was breached when a link to the live feed from one school camera was picked up and distributed by a Russian website that specializes in linking non-secured video surveillance cameras.

Tully says an unsecured technical vulnerability enabled viewers to access the school’s other two cameras as well.

Read more at The Observer

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: information and privacy commissioner, video surveillance

Woman with Down syndrome files human rights complaint after cops mock her during traffic stop

September 21, 2017

A 29-year-old woman with Down syndrome has filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario after two Toronto police officers were recorded mocking her during a traffic stop.

Francie Munoz argues the behaviour displayed by Const. Sasa Sljivo and Const. Matthew Saris on Nov. 5, 2016 amounts to discrimination on the grounds of disability.

She says in the complaint that she has suffered emotional trauma as a result of the incident, and that it has undermined her trust in law enforcement.

Sljivo and Saris are facing a disciplinary hearing on charges under the Police Services Act, with the next hearing scheduled for Oct. 18.

Read more at Toronto Star

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, police discriminaton

Charities Refuse Donations From Cannabis Companies While Accepting Money from Big Pharma

September 18, 2017

You’d think a charity would accept donations from any source they could. That’s basically the point of a charity. But according to Forbes, charities are hesitant to take donations from cannabis companies, even in states where it’s legal.

Forbes recently published a story about Organa Brands, one of the largest vape companies in America. Due to their immense success, the company wanted to give back to the community. Unfortunately, they were turned down from a handful of charities including Wounded Warriors, the American Cancer Society and the Children’s Hospital Foundation. The company was not happy with those refusals.

Read more at Civilized.

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: big pharma

Toronto lawyer out $100K after hiring fraudster with fake law degree

September 11, 2017

He dressed like a lawyer, talked like a lawyer and worked as a lawyer, but in reality, 34-year-old Inayat Kassam was a smooth-talking fraudster with a law degree that wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on.

The Aurora, Ont., man purchased his phoney law degree online five years ago from the University of Renfrew. The school has no officially recognized accreditation and its website features a fake address in Tampa, Fla., and stock images of supposed faculty members.

He previously purchased a bachelor of arts from Ashwood University, another fake school that claims to be based in Florida.

Read more at CBC News

Filed Under: Nutty Stuff Tagged With: fraud

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