Although hardly the best interview I have seen, the following is worth viewing inasmuch it raises real questions about credibility regarding who the driving force was behind requesting the Public Works Protection Act invoked during the G20 Summit. Was …
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Politics and its Discontents: Why Civilian Oversight of the Police is Crucial
Rex Meade of Dundas has a very interesting letter on police heavy-handedness and how to deal with it in today’s Star. If you get a chance, take a look at it.Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: G20 Summit Police Tactics Continue to Outrage Canadians
There is a series of letters in today’s Star that articulate the ongoing sentiments of ordinary Canadians a year after people had their Charter Rights ripped away by an out-of-control police force during the G20 Summit in Toronto. There is also one by…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Chief Bill Blair: No Apology, No Resignation
Having released a self-serving 70 page report reviewing the G20 Summit debacle, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair has concluded he has nothing to apologize for and will not consider resigning. As reported in today’s Star, despite a public opinion poll sh…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Canada’s Quasi-Police state
While the Premier of Ontario continues to blithely and glibly disavow any responsibility for the horrendous abuses of Charter Rights that took place during last June’s G20 Summit, admitting only that he “could have done a better job of communicating,” …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: With Powers Beyond Those of Mortal Men (And Women)
Loathsome worm that I am, I have spent the past year regularly criticizing the police for their mass suspension of our Charter rights during last June’s G20 Summit in Toronto. I saw them as a force gone wild, intoxicated by their own power, emboldened…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Finally, a G20 Police Arrest
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 Glen Weddell in the G20 beating of Dorian Barton, the Toronto baker whose only crime was to take some pictures …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Star Editorial Recommendation
I really have nothing new to add to the continuing saga of the Toronto Police Service’s obstruction of efforts to get at the ugly truth behind the G20 security debacle. However, today’s Star editorial does a good job of explaining why a complete and u…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Mark Pugash and the G20 Police Scandal
Mark Pugash is certainly earning his salary these days. The vexing and pugnacious Director of Corporate Communications for the Toronto Police has been loyally but, in my view, futilely acting as a human shield for Chief Bill Blair, the leader mysteriou…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The G20, The Toronto Police and The Art of Critical Thinking
For those who might wish to sharpen their critical thinking skills, I am providing a link to an article in today’s Star that provides a timeline of the investigation into Dorian Barton’s abuse at the hands of Toronto police during last June’s G20 Summi…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Journalism You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
For those who think all journalists have lost their bite, I suggest they read Rosie DiManno’s column today as she writes disdainfully of the Toronto Police Force and its consistent failure to track down officers who abused citizens during the G20. Mak…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Couple of Video Reminders of Abuse and Duplicity By Police During G20 Summit
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And The Two Chief Culprits Remain silent
Today’s story in The Toronto Star shows how the search for the identity of the officer who allegedly beat Dorian Barton is reaching absurdist levels.
Yet despite the increasing evidence of flagrant police obstructionism, Toronto Chief Bill Blair and P…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Despite Police and SIU Obstruction, G20 Lawsuit Moving Ahead
I have already written extensively about the G20 police abuses of our Charter Rights and have cited the McGuinty Government’s collusion in those abuses as the main reason I cannot vote for the Ontario Liberals in October. However, a story in today’s S…
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