Use of "medieval mace" okay in editorial: CBSC

OTTAWA – Harsh, potentially over-the-top criticism, is fair ball the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said today. The CBSC today released a decision on a complaint about Bruce Allen’s Reality Check, aired on Corus Entertainment's CKNW (Vancouver) on September 8, 2005. In the editorial segment (a daily piece where the host opines on a news story), Allen criticized a government program designed to assist drug addicts too wasted to inject themselves. In the September 8 segment, Allen complained about a government program which supports volunteers assisting drug addicts on Vancouver’s East Side to inject themselves. He criticized this use of taxpayers’...