Tonight's the season finale of The Border (9 pm, CBC)...the one where Maj. Mike Kessler (James McGowan) discovers an alleged war criminal is safely making his home in Canada. If you've been watching, you'll know that the most interesting part of Kessler's backstory involves his days as a Canadian soldier serving in the former Yugoslavia. Kessler, so the story goes, was involved in covering up a massacre. The episode, dubbed Blowback, offers somebody a shot at redemption, not necessarily Kessler.
Here in the real world, or at least in Metro Vancouver, the daily Vancouver Sun has a front-page story today recounting the last hours of Robert Dziekanski, who died last Oct. 13 after being tasered by RCMP at Vancouver airport. The Sun acquired through access to information sworn statements made by Canadian Border Services officers about their specific dealings with the late Polish immigrants.
You can find PDFs online at http://www.canada.com/ and read them for yourself. Some of the border staff at YVR described him as being "groggy," "dishevelled," "cooperative," and "following directions."
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