Tasers: a weapon of the oppressor
A just-released study has demonstrated what many of us already knew to be true: a Taser is the police cattle-prod of the twenty-first century, serving exactly the same function as…
Dr.Dawg
Whatever happened to Bruce Carson?
Nothing so far, by the look of it. Remember him? A disgraced Harper crony who was supposed to be undergoing an RCMP investigation? On his desk, Harper has had the…
Police brutality and Ontario’s civilian review
Adam Nobody has been vindicated—sort of. Ontario’s relatively new Office of the Independent Police Review Director has spoken. The OIPRD was established in 2009 to provide some relief to victimized…
Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas: any excuse to kill
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and his ever-reliable buddy Clarence Thomas have a peculiar fascination with the death penalty. They like it. In fact, they like it so much…
Sexual harassment victim expelled from university after complaining
Here’s an unfinished cautionary tale that has it all: misogyny, Islamophobia, abuse of authority, paranoia, bone-headed stupidity and a clear victim. A young Muslim woman wanted to be a chiropractor,…
People power
Never doubt that people acting together can make a difference. Thanks to yesterday’s internet strike, SOPA is no more. Due to the hard work of activists and ordinary people, the…
No SOPA: Dawg’s goes dark tomorrow
Above image courtesy of pale at A Creative Revolution, where the issue is set out. More here. Michael Geist has been sounding the alarm for some time, and urges support…
Shirish Chotalia: Privy Council cover-up
Perhaps unsurprisingly in an era in which political partisanship outweighs evidence, the Privy Council Office has refused to take action against incompetent bully Shirish Chotalia, current head of the Canadian…
But Mitt Romney is the moderate one
Palling around with white supremacists? Hey, call it outreach. The GOP is a big tent!
NDP dirty tricks?
What dirt? What tricks? Newly-minted Liberal Lise St-Denis is getting unwelcome phone traffic. Quebec’s Liberal mouthpiece, Denis Coderre, thinks he sees a chance to tar the NDP with the Conservative…
Xian love
Christians acting more like the lions in the arena: this topic has already come up over at DAMMITJANET!, but I thought I’d have a run at it as well. I…
The way a crow
shook down on me/ the dust of snow …as it snowboarded down a roof, tells me we might want to rethink our humanocentric notion of being separate from, and above,…
LibCon 2012: everything old is new again
Dreams can come true again When everything old is new again LibCon 2012 is now history. I provided a few accounts* as the spectacle unfolded, courtesy of iPolitics, who got…
Toronto police brutality updates
Sean Salvati. I posted about this outrageous case last July. Salvati is now suing the Toronto police, and obviously I hope he wins. The system consistently refuses to deal with…
Canadian justice
For counseling crimes against property and obstructing police: 16 months jail time. For violating the rights of more than one thousand Canadian citizens, sometimes with sadistic brutality: 0 jail time.…
The "Ethical Oil"/Tony Clement connection
While I’ve been regaling myself at LibCon 2012, it seems that a dynamite story has escaped the notice of the corporate media. Perhaps they’re at the same convention. In fact,…
Bloggers at LibCon 2012
Just a note: those who want to follow the political rainbow of iPolitics blogging commentary during the course of the Liberal Convention may do so here. Just to be absolutely…
Harper’s homophobic agenda
Anyone still confused on this point? The Harper government has served notice that thousands of same-sex couples who flocked to Canada from abroad since 2004 to get married are not…
A blogger’s life
I’m happy to announce that iPolitics is sending me to the upcoming Liberal convention, as an unofficial pro-NDP blogger. The deal is that I will be blogging for them, and…
Nonentity joins bigger nonentity
Lise St-Denis, an NDP rookie of little achievement, has defected to the moribund Liberal Party. It’s hard to stifle a yawn. The Liberals now have 35 seats in the House…