Politics and its Discontents

What do you do when citizens believe that democratic rights should be more than an illusion? Call in the authorities to remind them of their...

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...

My sentiments exactly, Steve: Re: A G20 cop’s close call, Aug. 10 I am a 59-year-old middle-class law-abiding person. That said, I ...

Now frequently the new last refuge of the scoundrel, the passive voice is very popular with politicians far and wide, even if they don...

The following is a brief excerpt from a comprehensive report by retired judge John Morden on the police brutality and abuses of Charter...

"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...

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

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...

Perhaps he is a student of Norman Vincent Peale . Perhaps he believes that when you are handed lemons, you make lemonade. Perhaps he p...

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

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...

One of the Toronto police officers identified in the G20 beating of Adam Nobody has now been identified in another incident occurring the...

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 ,...

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

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...

You decide. Please sign this petition urging Prime Minister Harper to stop threatening Michaela Keyserlingk and to stop exporting asb...