It is Monday, May 25, and here are the top stories we are following today.
RCMP commissioner ‘deeply concerned’ after CBC-backed prank show targets Mounties
Commissioner Mike Duheme said he is concerned “for the mental health and well-being of the veterans affected by this experience.” The CBC show pranked former RCMP officers, politicians and academics “to increase better understanding of historical injustices against Indigenous peoples,” a spokesperson said.
Mark Carney warns that push for Alberta separatism referendum could be ‘dangerous bluff’
The prime minister compared Alberta’s fall referendum vote on sovereignty to the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote to leave the European Union: “They’re still, 10 years later, trying to undo what people didn’t think they were voting for, but what they ended up having.”
Scott Stinson: Speculation swirls as Ontario MPP Caroline Mulroney says she is done with politics. For now
The daughter of former prime minister Brian Mulroney didn’t dismiss questions about whether she was considering a move into federal politics. And she did little to decrease speculation that her exit “is merely a setup for a bigger second political act down the road,” Stinson writes.
Tom Flanagan: Still no bodies 5 years after Kamloops ‘mass burial site’ was announced
While the Kamloops First Nation leadership ended up repudiating the finding of human remains at a former Indian Residential School, their original announcement exactly five years ago “unleashed a moral panic that will persist for years,” Flanagan argues.
Amy Hamm: Public servants can’t ride the work-from-home gravy train forever
Writing about a new petition calling for federal workers to be given a minimum of three work-from-home days per week, Hamm argues that “it reeks of entitlement for federal employees to demand a change to labour laws so that they can collect government paycheques in their pyjamas from home offices.”
