BC Firefighter Suspension Sets Off Political Firestorm

The one-day suspension of a Victoria, B.C., firefighter has sparked a political firestorm as provincial politicians say he shouldn’t have been disciplined for penning a letter to the premier about the homeless crisis, while municipal officials insist the commenting politicians don’t have all the facts. The issue first came to light when the B.C. Conservative Party candidate for Victoria Beacon-Hill, Tim Thielmann, took to social media to say firefighter Josh Montgomery had been suspended without pay for writing an open letter to Premier David Eby in mid-July. Thielmann called the suspension a “chilling retaliation” against a man “who risks his life to save ours.”...