Unpublished Newswire

Vancouver will save $7-million a year by getting rid of Canada’s only elected urban park board and integrating its work into city hall, says a report released Thursday that the mayor says bolsters his plan to eliminate the 135-year-old institution.The savings outlined in the report by city staff will come from a combination of cutting 10 to 20 staff positions from the 3,000 current park-board employees plus savings on reduced waiting times to build infrastructure projects. Mayor Ken Sim said the money would be plowed back into even better parks.

British Columbia’s top Mountie says rolling out body-worn cameras for officers in the province will address calls to “enhance public trust,” but a sociologist who studies technology’s effect on policing says evidence of it reducing use-of-force incidents is “inconsistent.”Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald, commanding officer of the RCMP’s E Division in B.C., said Thursday that the initiative to have front-line officers in B.C. wear the cameras is the “largest and most ambitious rollout of body cameras across the province.”“The introduction of the cameras is now the national standard...