Canadian Police gain Powers

I love news feeds because they drop in so many odd headlines that just grab attention "Police get new powers for G20" X-ray vision, super-strength something like that? Nope turns out that Canada's government sneaked in some extra stop-and-search powers for the police during the G20 summit. Go within 5 metres of the security area and you are obliged to provide the police with ID and allow them to search you.

Seeing as by default they can't normally do this the logical response to such a request would be "Um no" which could see you arrested and facing a $500 for failing to obey a law that the government didn't tell anyone they'd created and purposefully kept under the radar until pressured by journalists into admitting it existed. Nice.

Next up anyone wearing a hat within 10 metres of the area is subject to immediate arrest, but ssshh don't tell anyone.