Politics and its Discontents

Looking at the sidebar that lists the tags on my blog posts, I see I have written well over 100 entries on the police, most of them dealin...

. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I was a teacher for so many years; maybe it is because I have been a parent for even lo...

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...

Late last month I wrote a piece for The Paper News examining the nearly impenetrable 'blue wall' that is an ever-present barrier ...

It is heartening to know that the Hamilton police are discharging their duties responsibly, as attested to by a video that went viral this...

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

No doubt, the SIU would have given this one another pass had it happened in Canada.

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...

Most days that I post a blog entry, I choose my topic based on my reaction to news stories. Today, two disparate pieces seem particularly no...

While the title of this post may seem a bit of a tautology, since the power of police on the streets is obvious, there are other arenas wher...

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...

As noted the other day , there has been an ongoing jurisdictional battle in the case of alleged police brutality victim Tyrone Phillips. The...

Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By that standard...

Although the political abuse of power is endemic in this country, especially at the federal level, it is sadly not the only one in which i...

Watch this video and decide if the tasering was warranted: Undoubtedly, the SIU will find nothing wrong here. UPDATE: Circling the wag...

In what I can only construe as inept or complicit leadership at the top, the Toronto Police Service, thanks to massive obstructionism amongs...

Yesterday I wrote an entry detailing the frustrations of Ian Scott, head of the Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, over his inabili...

I couldn't help but think of that old Sonny and Cher song this morning as I read in The Star about the inability of the SIU to do its j...

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...