News report an unfair privacy invasion, says CBSC

OTTAWA - A news report which aired on CHEK News at Five on July 19, 2010 has been ruled to be unfair and an invasion of privacy by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC).The newscast’s lead story dealt with the death of a family of raccoons in Esquimalt, British Columbia. It was reported that an individual had killed a mother and a baby raccoon with a hockey stick, and that the SPCA was investigating the incident. The report named the husband, who had allegedly killed the animals, and his wife – who had not herself been connected to the incident...