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WEEKEND ROUNDUP
Kudos to the Vancouver Sun for finally naming the RCMP officer who was involved in both the ill-fated takedown of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver Airport and, allegedly, the death of a 21-year-old motorcyclist in Delta on Saturday night. He is, by the Sun‘s reckoning, Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson. I take no pleasure in repeating his name here. He might be innocent of all wrongdoing, and he’s entitled to all the due process he can eat. But he is not entitled to a red serge cloak of anonymity that the rest of us aren’t when we make a mess and the relevant authorities investigate us. That’s just one of many rules the RCMP made up for themselves.
Must-reads: Ian Mulgrew on the Robert Dziekanski fiasco.
Must-reads: Dan Gardner on the end of capitalism; Don Martin and Janet Bagnall on gender politics.
Over on the National Post‘s Full Comment blog, Lorne Gunter wants to know whether the justice Zofia Cisowski seeks for her son, Robert Dziekanski, “include[s] questions into her own role into her son’s death.”