Politics and its Discontents

First, bullets flew through the Eaton Centre food court. Then, two weeks later, on a sun-filled patio in Little Italy. On Sunday, a man w...

Oh, there is much in the news today to report and comment on, but I'll start with something close to my heart: Toronto Police Chief Bi...

I always try to be completely honest in everything that I write for this blog. If I see reason for praise, I acknowledge it, sadly a rare o...

Echoing some of the sentiments I expressed the other day , this morning's Star editorial endorses the Toronto Police Services Board'...

It is somewhat heartening that the Toronto police board, which has traditionally enjoyed harmonious relations with the Toronto Police, is sh...

The vast majority of the 1100 people abused, assaulted and arrested as a result of the thuggish actions of the G20 police forces, apparently...

In what has become almost a routine posting to my blog, the Toronto Star has revealed yet another violation of rights arising from last year...

As reported in today's Toronto Star , "Toronto police strip searched roughly 60 per cent of the people they arrested in 2010, compa...

The 'offer no apologies and accept no responsibility' head of the Toronto Police Services, Chief Bill Blair, has another facet of fa...

In what I can only construe as inept or complicit leadership at the top, the Toronto Police Service, thanks to massive obstructionism amongs...

I just read a post by The Disaffected Lib discussing the mounting number of resignations resulting from the Rupert Murdoch scandal. Both t...

As always, The Real News offers a refreshing perspective rarely found in the mainstream media. Anything that continues to keep the G20 poli...

I have written before about how much we are enjoying our subscription to The Toronto Star, one of the few newspapers that still seems to be ...

Yesterday I posted some of the comments made by Justice Allen upon sentencing two Toronto police officers to a year of house arrest for bea...

Although hardly the best interview I have seen, the following is worth viewing inasmuch it raises real questions about credibility regarding...

Rex Meade of Dundas has a very interesting letter on police heavy-handedness and how to deal with it in today's Star . If you get a cha...

There is a series of letters in today's Star that articulate the ongoing sentiments of ordinary Canadians a year after people had their...

Having released a self-serving 70 page report reviewing the G20 Summit debacle, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has concluded he has nothing...

While the Premier of Ontario continues to blithely and glibly disavow any responsibility for the horrendous abuses of Charter Rights that to...

I have written so much about last June's G20 Summit and the widespread violation of Charter Rights presided over by Police Chief Bill Bl...