Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Vickie Kaminski told media on Dec. 1, 2015, she quit for "honestly, personal reasons." A letter sent six days earlier says something very different.

This story may explain why all through the Labour Day weekend the Conservative Perpetual Outrage Brigade was acting as if someone had peed in their cornflakes.

It was mildly reassuring to discover that controversy could still be stoked in Alberta by the offering to reporters by Labour Minister Thomas Lukaszuk of rings of Polish sausage.

Perhaps it's not to late for MP Brent Rathgeber to slip a clause into his private member's bill requiring the CBC to publish its freelance commentators' speaking fees!