5 Things to watch
From avalanches to Hulkamania
The National Post previews the events likely to make headlines in the week ahead.
DEATH IN CUSTODY
1 An inquest begins Monday in Burnaby, B.C., into the death of Lucia Vega Jimenez, 42, who was discovered hanging in a shower stall in an immigration holding facility at the Vancouver airport in December 2013. A hotel worker with Mexican citizenship, she was arrested over an unpaid transit fare and ordered deported.
AVAILABLE SCIENCE
2 Hundreds of delegates from 16 countries meet in Banff, Alta., this week for the International Snow Science Workshop, with sessions on forecasting avalanches, explaining their physics and managing risk for people in the mountains.
COURT DATE
3 David Foucher and Guillaume Donovan, both former University of Ottawa hockey players, appear in a Thunder Bay, Ont., court Monday on charges of sexual assault. The charges follow an incident at a hotel in February that led school officials to fire the team’s coach and cancel the entire season.
TORY TROUBLE
4 Fresh off a victory in the Scottish referendum, British Prime Minister David Cameron will have no time to gloat as he hosts his Conservative party’s convention this week in Birmingham. Even before it begins, it has been overshadowed by scandal, as another of his MPs defected to the rival upstart UKIP, and another was caught in a sex scandal, having texted photos of his genitals to a male journalist posing on Twitter as a woman.
HULKAMANIA
5 Lou Ferrigno, the bodybuilder and actor who played The Incredible Hulk, is to be sworn in on Friday as an honorary police constable at the central police station in Hamilton, Ont. The next day, he will appear at the city’s comic convention alongside Julie Newmar, who played Catwoman on Batman.