Daily Archive: August 17, 2012

Aug 17

Crime fighting unit latest victim of provincial austerity measures

In its frenzy to bring down the provincial deficit, the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services has laid off the entire staff of an office responsible for fighting crime through analysis of electronic data. All six members of the electronics investigation unit of the ministry’s Centre for Forensic Sciences learned this week they will …

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Aug 17

Truth, deception and Ontario’s bi-elections

In true Liberal style, Dalton McGuinty has back-pedaled. Just days ago, when asked to comment on Greg Sorbara’s sudden retirement as an MPP, the Premier spoke about calling bi-elections in the ridings of Vaughan and Kitchener-Waterloo, and stated: “It would be unfair to plunge the province into two important bi-elections in the dog days of …

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