Ontario Teachers Strike
Ontario’s public elementary school teachers begin a work-to-rule action today.
Schools will remain open and extracurricular activities and field trips will continue for now, but teachers won’t perform some administrative duties.
There will be no standardized tests, no comments will be added to report cards beyond the marks, and teachers won’t participate in any meetings or professional development related to Ministry of Education initiatives.
Education Minister Liz Sandals said last week she was disappointed with the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario’s decision, but was “encouraged” that students will remain in the classrooms. (The Canadian Press)

Stone Mills Fraud
A local Ston Mills Township man has been changed with fraud over $5,000 After an investiagtion with the Napanee detachment of the OPP.
The charges are in connection to a complaint filed by a investor with a company known as The Wagar Financial Group. In the fall of 2014 a complaint was made to police after the client had not being reimbursed for his substantial investment with the company.
38 year old Kevin Wagar and former Ward 1 councillor, has been charged with fraud over $5,000 and has been released on a Promise to Appear and is scheduled to appear in Provincial Court in Napanee on June 2nd.

SIU Kingston
Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared an officer in the death of a Kingston motorcyclist who collided with an S-U-V during a police chase last July.  The S-I-U says an officer saw that the motorcyclist was missing its rear licence plate and seemed to be speeding, and began to follow.  It says the motorcyclist went through several stop signs during the pursuit and ended up hitting an S-U-V in an intersection.
The S-I-U says the officer should have given up the chase before then, and also blew through a stop sign, but says his conduct fell within the limits of the law.
(The Canadian Press)

South Frontenac Break-Ins
Police are reporting multiple break ins to a cottage in South Frontenac.
Frontenac OPP are investigating after a chained golf cart was taken from a North Shore Road cottage between April 29 and May 3.
This is not the first report from this property,  in April the chain to the front gate was cut and a wood splitter was stolen.
The cottage was not entered on either occasion, but police are asking anyone with information regarding the thefts  to contact Frontenac OPP or CrimeStoppers.

OPP Impaired Warnings
Ontario Provincial Police are concerned about a recent surge in impaired driving charges.
O-P-P say in the past 30 days, they have laid more than 180 alcohol-related criminal driving charges across the province.
Many of the charges came as a result of collisions and police say some of the drivers have registered upwards of three or four times the legal limit.
The O-P-P calls the growing number of charges “troubling” and says impaired driving continues to be a leading cause of death and injury on Ontario highways.
(The Canadian Press)

Rob Ford Cancer
Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford will undergo intensive surgery today to remove a cancerous tumour from his abdomen.
The city councillor will undergo an operation at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital that could last up to 10 hours and will put him out of commission for up to four months.
Ford, whose admitted drug and alcohol abuse earned him international notoriety, was forced out of his mayoral re-election bid last September when doctors discovered his rare, aggressive malignant liposarcoma.
He said his doctors told him last month that several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation had shrunk the growth enough for them to operate.

Fake Soldier
A Quebec man who pleaded guilty to charges of unlawfully wearing a military uniform and medals is set to be sentenced today in Ottawa.
Franck Gervais pleaded guilty in March to the allegations, but additional charges of impersonating a soldier are expected to be withdrawn today.
Gervais came under suspicion by real military members when he appeared on T-V last Remembrance Day wearing a Canadian Armed Forces dress uniform, and decorations that included medals for bravery, special service and peacekeeping.

Ontario – Couillard
For the first time in more than 50 years, a premier of Quebec will speak to the Ontario legislature today.
Philippe Couillard and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne have banded together to press Prime Minister Harper on climate change.
They issued a joint statement last month saying Harper’s view that emission-reduction plans are designed to put more money in government coffers does not reflect the view of the provinces.
Ontario and Quebec are working on a carbon cap-and-trade system in which businesses will have a greenhouse-gas emission quota and will be able to buy and sell credits.

Boston Bombing Trial
After months of testimony, the jury in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to begin weighing his punishment this week.
Jurors must decide whether the 21-year-old should spend the rest of his life in prison or be put to death for the 2013 twin bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 260.
His lawyers are expected to call their last witness in the sentencing phase today.