Early speculation suggests that someone crawling through a vent or duct fell from above and got stuck behind a wall in a washroom in Calgary. It was fatal. The body was discovered Monday by a plumber fixing a toilet in a washroom of the Core Shopping Centre at Seventh Avenue and Third Street S.W., police said. But this explanation is not final. CBC
GOVERNMENT ELECTION RULES
The federal government intends to limit the length of election campaigns, restrict the amount of spending allowed in the period immediately preceding a campaign and introduce new rules to regulate third-party spending as part of a set of major reforms to Canada’s elections laws. Political parties also would face new privacy requirements regulating how they collect and use information from Canadians.
CROSS CANADA EDUCATION REPORT
Provincial education ministers have released a report on the performance of students in reading and mathematics between 2010 and 2016. The ministers form a body known as the Council of Ministers of Education. The report, which is called the Pan-Canadian Assessment, may be read here
MAN AWARDED $10,000
A Chinese restaurant has been fined $10,000 because it asked a black man and his three friends to pay for their meal in advance in 2014. The server at the Hong Shing restaurant at 195 Dundas West took the order from Emile Wickham and three friends and then came back and told them the policy of the restaurant was for customers to pre-pay. Wickham asked other customers if they had paid in advance and they all said they had not The Human Rights Commission awarded the sum because of injury to Mr. Wickham’s feelings, self-respect and dignity.
