New Democrat MP Charlie Angus raised the alarm Thursday, after an internal memo went out to CBC journalists advising candidates for the job of executive director of news to send their applications to Tom Long -- veteran Tory backroomer and one-time Canadian Alliance leadership candidate.

Const. Mike Wasylyshen, son of former Edmonton police chief Bob Wasylyshen, has been charged with assaulting and threatening to cause death or bodily harm to a 24-year-old Edmonton man, assaulting two more men and threatening to cause death or bodily harm to the family of a fourth man, age 21.

The charges stem from an incident on Edmonton's Whyte Avenue bar strip. Wasylyshen was not on duty at the time.