Twenty seven years later, she heads Calgary' s Police Service. Top Cop takes us through the remarkable journey of a woman who is Canada's only female large city police chief. This is one American import Canadian business won't welcome. The kind of multimillion dollar settlements that are common south of the border could appear here soon. Recent legislation has led to almost 200 suits started here already, and more are on their way.
Venture looks at who's being sued and what Canadian businesses can do to protect themselves.
For millennia their numbers appeared to rival the stars in the sky, but now cod stocks are close to commercial extinction. This loss has been one of the most central disasters in Newfoundland's history. How this ecological and social crisis came to be is traced in this report which reveals how science was censured through suppression, denial and intimidation by the bureaucracy of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Fisheries Minister. Investigating the many prophetic reports that led to the closure of the fisheries, we speak to some of the key players and ask if this politics versus science situation is any better today, now that the inland fisheries have been reopened. The prime rate is at an unusually low level, as low as it has been in the last 40 years.