IANAL (obviously), but in the first question, I agree. Nobody does more work than they have to, and that will include police. If they don't think they need a warrant, why go to the trouble? Of course, some criticism needs to be thrown at Shaw, because they made no effort to defend their customers by asking for a warrant.
On the second, I think that's pretty much impossible. An IP Address is basically public information - it has to be for the internet protocol to work. For instance, any of the mods here can tell what your IP address is, and if you were to join a BitTorrent swarm, you would see the addresses of anyone connected to you. The IP Address is public information. The name and information of the subscriber behind it is not. That seems reasonable to me.
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