Finally now Canadians must realize that our police are out of control.  There is no rationalization for using a taser on an eleven year old boy.  Under any circumstance that is an inappropriate response to a child.  Surely better options existed.  What did police do in situations like this before the advent of the taser? [...]

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Lest we forget.  Every year I have heard those words for as far back as I remember.  Lest we forget.  And yet it seems we never did remember.  Flowery speeches and poems waft through the autumn air each year and yet the killing goes on.  This is the first year of my life that I [...]

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Charges of criminal libel by Calgary Police against a local man for opinions expressed on his website will and should send a chill up the spine of all of us who use the web to express our views in one of the few democratic forums open to us.  Websites, such as mine, are opinion driven [...]

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Toronto is a major film producing city yet the production values at the G20 summit left much to be desired.  First the placing of the police cruisers to be fired was too static.  The director failed to convey any sense of motivation for their presence;  they stood awkwardly at center stage like a nervous young [...]

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Sometimes it seems that nothing interesting ever happens up here on the Canadian political landscape.  Our American cousins have wide stance senators in airport washrooms and congressmen having tickle fights with interns and of course a president that liked to pontificate on the taste of a good cigar.  But we need to stop being such [...]

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Tasers are in the news again.  Ontario has announced rule changes for the use of the device and the RCMP will offer a second apology along with compensation to the mother of Robert Dziekanski.  Nothing can compensate the family of Mr. Dziekanski and no apology will return a son to a mother.  All we can [...]

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Video evidence has been released following the conviction of five of the so-called Toronto 18.  Seven of the group were previously released and six are yet to face trial.  As the evidence involved does not show any of the men still awaiting trial the judge released the images.  One video shows an explosion in a [...]

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Homelessness is a chronic problem in Western industrialized states but this current recession is swelling the numbers.  After all it was the sub-prime mortgage disaster that pushed the ball over the cliff in the first place.  Thousands have lost their homes; many of them ordinary working people who had bought into the American dream.  There [...]

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Poverty is not the cause of social turmoil as the common myth would lead us to believe.  Rather, disparity is the culprit.  People generally are accepting of poor circumstances as long as they feel the pain is felt universally.  When Marx and Engels talked about the withering away of the state this is what they [...]

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The RCMP are at it again.  This time the Commissioner, while visiting Kandahar, told Canadians not to jump to any negative conclusions about the force because of recent scandals such as the Dziekanski case.  ‘Walk a mile in my shoes’ he said comes to mind.  Modern policing is very challenging, things are not always black [...]

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