News you may have missed this week

Flair Airlines is starting a network-wide audit of its baggage sizers after a case custom-built to the company's published sizing requirement didn't fit. CTV Ne

These are the stories that dominated Edmontonians’ interest this week.

Phone upgrade scam

Mounties are warning about a scam centered around cold callers who convince victims to buy a new phone legitimately. When it arrives, the fraudster calls back to say it’s the wrong device and directs them to send it back to a different address. One arrest has been made.

Flair reviewing airport sizers after complaint

An Edmonton man’s briefcase he had custom made to fit the sizes specified on Flair’s website doesn’t fit Flair’s sizers at the airport. The airline says it has “initiated a network-wide audit of all baggage sizers to verify that their internal dimensions align with our published allowances,” while the man is considering legal action.

Extortionists deported

Two men have been deported because of their alleged involvement in a national extortion scheme. Police say they are focusing on deporting suspects, rather than charging them, because it means a quicker end to the violence affecting Edmonton’s South Asian community. The move has multiple judicial and political ramifications, commentators say.

Edmonton man seeks MAID

An Edmonton man will die Friday after spending several years seeking medical assistance in dying. John Maloney has multiple health conditions and says having the choice to die when he wants is about autonomy.

“If you have a right to choose to live, then I have the right to choose to die,” he told CTV News Edmonton.

Charge laid in fatal QEII shooting

A Lloydminster man has been charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Birinder Singh on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway on March 14.

His friends want police to investigate whether the shooting was racially motivated.