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Good news, bad news: May 5-12, 2011

The RCMP officers involved in Robert Dziekanski’s death face perjury charges, while scientists prove Einstein was right

Son of a Terminator, Big Brother is driving you and Just another self-hating Canadian

This week’s Newsmakers

“Suspended with pay”

Kudos to the Vancouver Sun for finally naming the RCMP officer who was involved in both the ill-fated takedown of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver Airport and, allegedly, the death of a 21-year-old motorcyclist in Delta on Saturday night. He is, by the Sun‘s reckoning, Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson. I take no pleasure in repeating his name here. He might be innocent of all wrongdoing, and he’s entitled to all the due process he can eat. But he is not entitled to a red serge cloak of anonymity that the rest of us aren’t when we make a mess and the relevant authorities investigate us. That’s just one of many rules the RCMP made up for themselves.

Megapundit: The age of meritocracy

Must-reads: Dan Gardner on the end of capitalism; Don Martin and Janet Bagnall on gender politics.