Politics and its Discontents

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So said Crown attorney Elizabeth Jackson, who is seeking a sentence of 18 months in jail and three years’ probation at the sentencing h...

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

When I was young, our local radio station used to carry the syndication of Paul Harvey's nightly news program. Every so often, the ...

"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...

The Toronto Star reports the following: The province’s police complaints watchdog has recommended 31 officers be charged with misco...

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...

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

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 ,...

In a world where injustice seems to prevail, I suspect we have to be content with the small victories. Nicholas Wright looks like he is we...

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...