Politics and its Discontents

At the risk of seeming a tad obsessed about James Forcillo , I feel compelled to do yet another post on him and Sammy Yatim , the troubled...

What many of us feared has happened. James Forcillo has been granted bail : Justice Eileen Gillese’s decision was released to counsel by ...

Toronto police officer James Forcillo, who gunned down Sammy Yatim three years ago, has been given six years for his despicable act. Is it ...

That famous line from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody might have been the inspiration, and is certainly the subtext, for James Forcillo and h...

We've all seen the videos depicting the murder of Sammy Yatim at the hands of Toronto police officer James Forcillio. Although Forcillo ...

If we are given to even modest introspection, it seems inevitable that the longer we live, the more we develop an increasing appreciation no...

I have long held to the belief that had there been no video evidence, there would have been no charges, no trial and certainly no conviction...

Were I so inclined, I could probably devote this blog solely to police misconduct, so extensive does it seem. Perhaps it is due to the For...

H/t Toronto Star In response to yesterday's post , both the Salamander and the Mound of Sound offered some interesting commentary. T...

I have avoided writing about the semi-acquital of Sammy Yatim's killer, Officer James Forcillo, partly because it sickens me when misca...

To listen to James Forcillo, the Toronto police officer who shot Sammy Yatim eight times as the knife-wielding teen stood inside an empty s...

If we are completely honest, many of us will admit to a deeply ambivalent relationship with the police. On the one hand we look to them fo...

I have often thought that had the video evidence not been so strong and graphic in the shooting of Sammy Yatim , the 'official' poli...

While the presumption of innocence is fundamental to our justice system, common sense and public sensibilities are always unspoken element...

Given the killing of people like Sammy Yatim and Steve Mesic and the taser takedown of Iole Pasquale , it would seem a legitimate questio...

Most people get their morning jolt from their breakfast cup(s) of coffee. As I wrote earlier this week, an 80-year-old woman, now identifie...

Given Sammy Yatim's tragic execution by police for swearing at them and holding a penknife, and the shooting in the back of the unarmed...

Andre Marin, Ontario's Ombudsman, found this out after announcing he was planning to investigate the province’s direction to police on...

I received the following as a response to one of my blog posts on Sammy Yatim , the young man gunned down a week ago by the Toronto Police...

A petition has been established at Change.org. seeking justice for Sammy Yatim. At last count it was closing in on 27,000 signatures. Here...