Politics and its Discontents

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

Not given to monomania, I really hope that at some point in the (perhaps distant) future, I will be able to completely move on from commenti...

I really take no pleasure in reading about police who are charged with crimes. Sadly, that kind of misbehavior, which seems to be alarmingl...

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

So read the headline in today's Hamilton Spectator in a story by Ken Peters. In yet another blow to the patina of respect that used t...

In what is getting to be a far too routine occurrence, more police misconduct has come to light, this time in the Niagara region. A story i...

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