theBreaker.news Podcast: Data probe, Legislature intrigue and Mountie mental health

December 02, 2018 00:28:18
theBreaker.news Podcast: Data probe, Legislature intrigue and Mountie mental health
theBreaker.news Podcast
theBreaker.news Podcast: Data probe, Legislature intrigue and Mountie mental health

Dec 02 2018 | 00:28:18

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Show Notes

What does the ongoing investigation of digital dirty tricks have in common with the mysterious B.C. Legislature scandal and the long-overdue inquest into a prominent police officer's suicide? They're part of this week in review on theBreaker.news Podcast. In London, a trio of Canadian lawmakers joined the Parliamentary committee investigating social media disinformation and fake news on Nov. 27. Hear from U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, the former B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner who is probing the role Victoria's AggregateIQ played in the Facebook data scandal.   Suspended Legislature clerk Craig James and sergeant-at-arms Gary Lenz hired Vancouver law firm Fasken and the Peak Communicators crisis communications company to set-up a Nov. 26 news conference where they emphasized their innocence. Meanwhile, Speaker Darryl Plecas issued a statement to defend his duty to report concerns to police and conduct his own due diligence. "The Legislative Assembly has a right to protect the integrity of the institution," Plecas wrote. In Burnaby, a B.C. Coroner's Court heard testimony over three days about the 2013 suicide of RCMP Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre and the jury issued five mental health-related recommendations to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki on Nov. 29. Hear from Walter Kosteckyj, the lawyer for the mother of the late Robert Dziekanski, who attended the fact-finding hearings to support Lemaitre's widow. 

Plus commentaries and Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest headlines. 

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