From … guess which piece of birdshit-catcher. The usual “police morale is low” bullshit. A sample:The situation has worsened with each new allegation of police brutality and little has been done to restore the faith in those sworn to serve and protec…
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One year after G20: Activist Jaggi Singh’s sentence suspended…
By CLAC-Montréal; June 21, 2011 – rabble.cahttp://rabble.ca/news/2011/06/one-year-after-g20-activist-ja… Montreal, June 21, 2011 — Today, Montrealer Jaggi Singh, a member of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC), was sentenced for “inciting” peo…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: New Davenport NDP MP Andrew Cash fighting for justice for Toronto business owners affected by the G20
Ottawa agrees to review G20 claims from Toronto business owners – thestar.comExcerpt:NDP MP Andrew Cash (Davenport) accused the government of trying to bury businesses in paperwork hoping they will “just quietly go away.”“Toronto businesses insid…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Toronto G20: One thug down, many to go.
Toronto police officer charged in G20 assault – thestar.com
Many more officers guilty of assault causing bodily harm will remain at large and uncharged due to a system that fails ordinary citizens when trusted police officers break the law.
Sleaze, slush funds and the Auditor-General’s report: This is supposed to make a difference?
With the release of Sheila Fraser’s report detailing a record of malfeasance and misdirection regarding G8/G20 spending, a whole raft of familiar patterns re-emerges.
Sleaze, slush funds, money earmarked for border infrastructure spent in Huntsville (…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: I Like the Acting AG Already
“The government didn’t tell Parliament it was approving $50 million for a G8 legacy fund that doled out cash for projects in cabinet minister Tony Clement’s riding based on his advice, according to the auditor general, who could find no paper trai…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Is the G20 slush fund scandal the Harper Tory gun registry?
When the Auditor General first reported about the gun registry, she told Canadians that “What’s really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark” about the cost of building the long gun registry.
Then opposition Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkr…
Continue readingImpolitical: It matters
Just wanted to pick up on a thought in Warren Kinsella’s post on the release of the Auditor General’s report today: “Lying liars.”
The Auditor General’s report has confirmed what came up during the election, that there was serious non-disclosure to Pa…
Continue reading@thekeenanwire and the police / government / society we deserve
Over at The Grid, Edward Keenan’s got a thoughtful and compelling piece about the police assault on Dorian Barton at last summer’s G20, and the shameful saga surrounding the SIU’s on-again, off-again attempts to investigate.
We all know how that song …
Continue readingImpolitical: G20 hearings continue in Toronto tonight
Public hearings continue tonight in the west end of Toronto: 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Etobicoke Civic Centre, 399 The West Mall.
There is a narrow question at the heart of these hearings and posed to those making submissions: “What role should ci…
Continue readingAccountability from the #G20? Not gonna happen
From the Tumblr a couple of hours ago.
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We ain’t gonna have no stinkin’ inquiry
SIU re-opens another G20 investigation. Stop me if you’ve heard this before
Michigan and the shredding of government of, by and for the people
Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- John Allemang’s profile of Jack Layton is well worth a read in full. But after a campaign where any show of support can easily be written off as a matter of party scripting, it’s well worth noting the spontane…
Continue reading#G20 fallout: What @pogge411 and @canadianlefty said
Links here and here. Lefty’s post is a long one, but definitely worth the time. It’s all about the not-so-subtle message from last June: activism and dissent are dangerous. Stay home, shut up, and do as you’re told.
In fact, it was precisely this suggestion that drew yours truly into the blogosphere in the first place. After that shameful display of shitkicking, curbstomping, kettling, gang-rape threatening, prosthetic-leg-stealing, horse-trampling, tear-gassing and rubber-bullet-shooting by the cops, it’s not hard to imagine that a lot of people are going to think twice about taking to the streets.
And wouldn’t that be convenient for Stephen Harper, Dalton McGuinty and their corporate string-pullers.
In fact, just this morning, yours truly almost got pulled into an exchange on the Tweeter centred on the whole “you should have stayed home” argument.
Mea culpa. There are times when facing that sort of thing is almost enough to pull me out of the snide, condescending, snarky persona I usually affect, and into stuttering, spittle-flecked rage. And that isn’t helping anyone or anything. Apologies all round.
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- The G20 narrative: whose story is it?
More allegations of police brutality at the G20: Gabriel Jacobs
More serving and protecting by the Toronto Police. (Yeah, right.)
Via CBC and the Star, news that Gabriel Jacobs is filing a human rights complaint over the way he was treated at the G20.
Let’s review the sordid allegations: Guy in a wheelchair. Drag…
Continue readingPut lying cops on the stand and make them do it for the record
Not that it should take the focus off Harper and McGuinty, who bear just as much culpability as municipal officials for the abuses that took place at last summer’s G20, but Rosie DiManno’s got an idea about the 11 cops who, incredibly, can’t identify t…
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: PM Goes to Europe for G8
Inspired by these stories: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/05/25/harper-europe-g8.htmlhttp://www.thestar.com/news/article/996441–siu-s-g20-ruling-a-failure-of-justice
Continue readingOn CBC, a further demonstration of Toronto cops’ contempt for us
On Metro Morning today, Matt Galloway talked to police union boss Mike McCormack about the nameless asshole who broke Dorian Barton’s arm at the G20 last summer, and about the SIU’s investigation coming to a dead end.
Anyone want to guess where Mike m…
Continue readingPolygonic: Some summit perspective
G8 times are here again! And France gets its day in the sun as host, which clearly heralds the ascent of a new French Order in Europe and the world. It will inevitably send their newspapers and TV chat hosts into a month-long tizzy of neurotic self-congratulation and overblown patriotism. Nicolas Sarkozy will almost certainly […]
Toronto Police: Unaccountable, uncaring, unbelievable
The Star doesn’t always get it right, but this time it’s taken a centring pass in the slot and buried it in the top corner.
When the provincial Special Investigations Unit threw in the towel and said it couldn’t identify the brutal, cowardly slimeball…
Continue reading#G20 aftermath, Robert Dziekanski, and police accountability
Because of the recent, er, unpleasantness, I’ve started a backup site over at Tumblr.
(OK, OK, I wanted another excuse to geek out. Like I don’t have enough already.)
Anyway, a couple of items about police being held to account for their excesses stoo…