Politics and its Discontents

Although I have written countless posts about the abrogation of charter rights and myriad instances of police brutality that occured in T...

I have written several posts in this blog about institutions and their many shortcomings, shortcomings that seem directly proportional to...

When I was young, our local radio station used to carry the syndication of Paul Harvey's nightly news program. Every so often, the ...

"Guys are talking nonsense and he got nonsense back.” - Sgt. Mark Charlebois in defense of his denial of Paul Figueiras's Charte...

Although two years overdue, the abuses of Charter Rights and police brutality that occurred in Toronto during the June 2010 G20 Summit...

The Toronto Star reports the following: The province’s police complaints watchdog has recommended 31 officers be charged with misco...

As a reader of various progressive bloggers, I know that the thirst for justice and accountability burns strongly amongst informed Can...

Despite the ongoing and very critical coverage of Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair and his myriad leadership failures at the 2010 G20 Sum...

With a broad range of targets in his column today, including Dalton McGuinty, Harper, Tony Clement and Julian Fantino as additional archite...

In the strange parallel world inhabited by Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, that seems to be the rule governing administrative oversigh...

The Star reports the following: About five high-ranking Toronto police officers were informed last week they will face misconduct charges ...

While this report from The Office of the Independent Police Review may afford some satisfaction for confirming the obvious, the fact ...

In one of the more despicable acts of police brutality during the G20 Summit in Toronto in June of 2010, a paraplegic man, Gabriel Jacobs ,...

In a world where injustice seems to prevail, I suspect we have to be content with the small victories. Nicholas Wright looks like he is we...

Perhaps next time they will be more selective about the number of law-abiding citizens against whom they wield their batons and arrest.

As one who strives to be a critical thinker, I am loathe to make absolutist or ill-informed statements and assertions, even as I admit to fr...

As human beings, there is really no way that we can dispute our deeply-flawed natures. Overlooking the terrible depths to which we can sink...

Kafkaesque is a term loosely and regularly bandied about, usually denoting a process whereby an innocent person is subjected to unfathomable...

In a frightening, bald, and very public display of how much of a politician he has become, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has announced th...

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...