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The story started with the leak of an audio recording in which Donald Sterling allegedly tells his girlfriend V. Stivianon not to bring black people to his team's basketball games.

"It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?" a man thought to be Sterling says during what is believed to be a recorded telephone call.

"You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that ... and not to bring them to my games."

Los Angeles Clippers players warm up before Sunday afternoon's game against Golden State with their warm-up shirts turned inside out.

WHAT WILL AND CAN THE NBA DO TUESDAY ABOUT CLIPPERS OWNER?

CURRENT EVENTS MAY 1The National Basketball

Association will speak about the racist comments allegedly made by L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling

Because NBA bylaws aren’t public, nobody knows exactly what sanctions league commissioner Adam Silver can deliver. But everyone from LeBron James to Michael Jordan to U.S. President Barack Obama have called for a stiff penalty.

Clippers players, including superstars Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, have already asked Sterling to avoid the team’s games for the rest of the 2014 playoffs.

CURRENT EVENTS MAY 1If Sterling holds on to the team, he’s running a risk, said the

Toronto Star’s Morgan Campbell, who runs the newspaper's series Sportsonomics. If the sponsors — who have been distancing themselves from the Clippers organization since news of the recordings broke — fans and TV ratings don’t come back following Sterling’s toxic comments, the franchise would plummet in value.

Campbell said the NBA, a league where 70 per cent of the athletes are black, has done "absolutely nothing" about Sterling’s alleged racism in the past, but it can’t overlook it this time.

"This type of talk is off-limits no matter if three-quarters of your employees are African American or none of them are African American," Campbell told the CBC's Power & Politics. 

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/nba/clippers-stage-jersey-protest-amid-donald-sterling-controversy-1.2623651

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In the midst of a fresh eruption of abuse allegations surrounding the government's troubled temporary foreign worker program, Jason Kenney's reputation as a capable task-master taking a beating.

The employment minister was on the defensive Monday in the House of Commons, but he's also under attack from business groups, labour unions and — perhaps most troubling for Kenney with a federal election looming — everyday Canadians who believe the Conservatives have made it easier for foreigners to swipe their jobs.

How times change in January, Kenney pledged another round of reforms as employers and trade associations bemoaned the procedural red tape and lengthy delays they say resulted from rule changes enacted a year ago.

JASON KENNEY ON HOT SEAT AS CONTROVERSY RAGES OVER TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS

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released a study that said the influx of temporary foreign workers over the past 10 years — from about 110,000 a decade ago to 338,000 today — had served to hike the joblessness rate in B.C. and Alberta.

CBC also released a damning audio recording of the CEO of McDonald's Canada, John Betts, denouncing the crackdown on temporary foreign workers to franchisees and telling them that Kenney "gets it."

Employment Minister Jason Kenney has said the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is intended to be used as a last resort in cases where employers can't find Canadians to fill open jobshttp://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jason-kenney-on-hot-seat-as-controversy-rages-over-temporary-foreign-workers-1.2625377

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Jim Prentice is forming a team for a bid to become Alberta's next premier, a move one observer says is an "earthquake" for the province's politics.

The Tories are looking to hold a leadership vote in September to formally replace former premier Alison Redford, who resigned last month amid allegations of lavish spending and party infighting.

Prentice had contacted Alberta cabinet ministers and members of the PC caucus in recent days to gauge support, and had been told he should run.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jim-prentice-forming-team-for-alberta-tory-leadership-race-1.2624808

JIM PRENTICE FORMING TEAM FOR ALBERTA TORY LEADERSHIP RACE

CURRENT EVENTS MAY 1Prentice left federal politics

three and a half years ago after holding several key portfolios in the government of Stephen Harper, including environment and aboriginal affairs.

Since then he's been vice-chairman of CIBC and, more recently, took on the role of helping Enbridge work with First Nations opposed to the company's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline through British Columbia.

Prentice is seen as a so-called Red Tory, but he retains strong connections and a solid working relationship with both the Harper government and Alberta PCs.