Unpublished Newswire

They were contentious, unprecedented and among the policies that drove long-haul truckers from across Canada to overtake Ottawa’s downtown core for nearly a month. Now a new paper explores under what conditions vaccine certificates should, or shouldn’t ever, be considered again. “If you look at some of the language used even during the convoy, it was ethics language. It was informed consent; it was around freedom and liberty and coercion,” said co-author Maxwell Smith, director of Western University’s Centre for Bioethics. “These are profoundly ethical ideas. We need to confront...

Tom Christie believed he was doing his job when he waded into a crowd of drunken, rowdy teens at a Calgary park. Instead, the teens turned on the vacationing Mountie in July 2004, striking his body upwards of 50 times, leaving the front-line RCMP constable with a head injury and setting Christie up for a battle with Veterans Affairs Canada, which handles compensation claims for Mounties, that’s been going on now for two decades. Christie was biking with his three sons around 8 p.m. on July 23, 2004. He remembers confronting the group of four or five teens after sending his boys,...