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Ottawa police secretly wiretapped 5 Black officers, lawsuit alleges | CBC News

hamiddebared@gmail.com2 weeks ago021 mins

The Ottawa police secretly wiretapped five of its Somali officers and their family members for months, never laid any charges, and refuses to tell them why, alleges a $2.5-million lawsuit filed by the officers. In the suit against the Ottawa Police Services Board, filed last year and reported now for the first time exclusively by CBC, the officers…

Carol Off wants to take the word ‘freedom’ back from the far right. Kamala Harris is doing just that | CBC Radio

hamiddebared@gmail.com2 weeks ago013 mins

When former CBC host Carol Off started writing a book calling on people to reclaim the word “freedom” from the far right, she thought she would be dismissed as naive. Then Kamala Harris began her run to become U.S. president. “The first thing out of her [Harris’s] mouth, practically, was freedom,” Off told As It Happens…