Politics and its Discontents

The Globe and Mail has an online story reporting Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan's adamant opposition to any consideration of a ...

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

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

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

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...

Loathsome worm that I am, I have spent the past year regularly criticizing the police for their mass suspension of our Charter rights during...

There is little doubt in my mind that the relentless efforts of the Toronto Star played a major role in the arrest of Toronto police officer...

Today's story in The Toronto Star shows how the search for the identity of the officer who allegedly beat Dorian Barton is reaching abs...

I have already written extensively about the G20 police abuses of our Charter Rights and have cited the McGuinty Government's collusion...

Responding to a recent editorial in The Star calling for a G20 Summit inquiry, readers' letters amply demonstrate that this is an issue ...

It is hardly surprising that Tim Hudak, leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, is keeping silent even when conservative eleme...

Politicians should know they are in trouble when even the more conservative elements of society, traditionally unquestioning supporters of t...

As reported in The Toronto Star , a 59-page report by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and National Union of Public and General Emp...

While I have believed in the power of the written word my entire life, sometimes images are a more potent way to convey the outrages that fr...

Just a brief post to provide a link to the preview of a Fifth Estate program this Friday (February 25th) showing people's eyewitness vi...

Now that we are subscribing to the Toronto Star, I have the luxury of lingering over the paper as I finish my morning coffee. Given the man...

After the Toronto Star recently published photos surrounding the police assault on, and subsequent arrest of Dorian Barton, the student who...

There is a compelling video on today's Star website in which Toronto student Dorian Barton explains how attempting to take some picture...

Just a short thought for today. Although I am now at the stage of life where I have more years behind me than I have ahead, and have been a...