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Weekend Newsstand: May 16, 2015
Body-worn police cameras are coming to Toronto, Loblaw employees voted for strike action, and ducklings were rescued by firefighters: here's your Saturday news!
A yearlong pilot project will see 100 Toronto police officers sporting body-worn cameras for a year, after which a report will be released by June 2016. The cameras will be activated when officers are answering a call or investigating someone, but will not have to be on when officers are merely speaking to citizens. These rules led to an outcry on Twitter, where people expressed concern over whether or not carding incidents—which involve citizens who are not suspected of committing any crime, and therefore do not fall under “investigation”—would be filmed. Officers are in charge of turning the cameras on and off.
Union workers at Loblaw Companies Ltd. have voted in favour of strike action over wages, schedules, benefits, and “limits on third party providers.” Locals 175 and 633 of United Food and Commercial Workers, which are the two that voted to strike, represent 28,000 grocery workers in the Loblaw chain. Negotiations resume on May 26.
A firefighter rescued 11 ducklings trapped in a sewer, returning them all to their mother. The mother duck had been “acting frantically in a restaurant parking lot,” which alerted passersby to her distress, according to CTV News.