Richard Gwyn has died. I began reading his reporting as a kid, moved to his biographies of Pierre Trudeau and John A. Macdonald and tuned in regularly when he was on television. He represented the best in Canadian journalism. He gave up a life of privilege in Britain, Francine Kopun
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Farber Vs. Gwyn On John A.
From Bernie’s piece in The Star:The latest hullaballoo around renaming Toronto’s Union Station after Sir John A. Macdonald should have and could have been avoided from the start. It simply boggles the mind that Toronto Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, a savvy municipal politician, would have suggested such a change without engaging
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: ‘Paying’ For Their Crimes?
It doesn’t take a cynic to realize that justice can be anything other than even-handed. We all know, for example, that there is a disproportionate percentage of people populating North American jails who are from the underclass, both white and non-white. The ability to ‘buy’ justice by engaging high-priced counsel
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