Politics and its Discontents

The Star reports the following: About five high-ranking Toronto police officers were informed last week they will face misconduct charges ...

For some time now I have been closely following abuses of power, with special interest in instances involving our politicians and our pol...

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 ,...

Kafkaesque is a term loosely and regularly bandied about, usually denoting a process whereby an innocent person is subjected to unfathomable...

It is difficult to know exactly what the repercussions will be for Chief Bill Blair, who attempted to go over the heads of his civilian over...

In a frightening, bald, and very public display of how much of a politician he has become, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has announced th...

I always try to be completely honest in everything that I write for this blog. If I see reason for praise, I acknowledge it, sadly a rare o...

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

In what has become almost a routine posting to my blog, the Toronto Star has revealed yet another violation of rights arising from last year...

The 'offer no apologies and accept no responsibility' head of the Toronto Police Services, Chief Bill Blair, has another facet of fa...

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

I just read a post by The Disaffected Lib discussing the mounting number of resignations resulting from the Rupert Murdoch scandal. Both t...

As always, The Real News offers a refreshing perspective rarely found in the mainstream media. Anything that continues to keep the G20 poli...

I have written before about how much we are enjoying our subscription to The Toronto Star, one of the few newspapers that still seems to be ...

Those were the words of Justice Elliot Allen as he sentenced two Toronto police officers to one year of house arrest for beating a Cabbageto...

There is a series of letters in today's Star that articulate the ongoing sentiments of ordinary Canadians a year after people had their...

While the Premier of Ontario continues to blithely and glibly disavow any responsibility for the horrendous abuses of Charter Rights that to...

I have written so much about last June's G20 Summit and the widespread violation of Charter Rights presided over by Police Chief Bill Bl...

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...