Trouble With The Border

Surveillance footage vanishes

Several hours of surveillance footage recorded at Vancouver airport the night Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski was tasered and died were inadvertently erased by the Canada Border Services Agency a week after his death.

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Ottawa gagged border agency
Senior B.C. officials with the Canada Border Services Agency were frustrated with an edict from Ottawa last fall banning them from speaking to the media about the Tasering and death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski, according to internal agency e-mails obtained by The Vancouver Sun.

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Bureaucrat scam alleged
In a alleged scam that defrauded taxpayers of at least $230,000, a federal bureaucrat is accused of using a government credit card to buy souvenir coins from the Royal Canadian Mint, then funnelling the cash into her personal bank account.

The Canada Border Services Agency staffer also allegedly used the card to buy laptop computers, palm pilots and other electronics, then allegedly resold them on eBay. Documents obtained under the Access to Information Act reveal co-workers had noticed the almost daily delivery of packages to the office and their colleague's "extravagant" lifestyle, yet the alleged spree continued for several months before her superiors caught on.

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