Those choosing other than well-cropped turf to adorn their properties are finding themselves pursued and threatened by city by-law enforcement all over North America. Item: In Memphis, Tennessee), a schoolteacher’s…
Canada will join the US in opposing statehood for the Palestinian people within the 1967 borders established between Israel and Palestine—the so-called Green Line. Those borders, previously a basic principle…
(Ottawa, September 17) DawgNews has learned that an unprecedented collection of horsefeathers has been found at the University of Calgary, encased in several fossilized copies of Alberta Report. Representing early…
American cops are to be granted the power to arrest Canadians in Canada. Are you paying attention here, folks? The continentalists are winning. The thickened border is an illusion. Better…
One would have thought that the sad Sarah Grunfeld affair is now well past its best-before date, safely relegated to that bulging file we call “Life’s Lessons.” Grunfeld’s failure to…
…when police officers do it. More outrageous brutality, this time against an 11-year-old kid, from the people who brought you Robert Dziekanski. No public accountability. Just more impunity—as once again,…
This short piece is simply a must-read. Written in her inimitable, powerful style, Alice Walker addresses the banning of Palestinian children’s art by a museum in Oakland, California. First, however,…
Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in the state of Georgia on September 21. American death culture rears its ugly head yet again, this time in…
Fern Hill has an interesting but disheartening post up at DAMMIT JANET! about the increasing tendency of political candidates to cower in their basements plead “prior commitments” to avoid being…
…and unethical allies in the academy. With Friends like these, does science need enemies? An outrageous tale of corporate and academic deception at the University of Calgary. ...
I see it’s time once again to dust off this “Fable for Our Time” by American humourist James Thurber: Not so very long ago there was a very fine gander.…
Criticize cops involved in the G20 debacle? We can now expect to be arrested and face criminal prosecution. Forget a civil defamation suit—two members of the Ontario Provincial Police, aided…
The broad streak of fascism in the American Republican Party once again finds expression. Should a citizen who cannot afford health care simply be allowed to die? Recall that this…
From Big City Lib: You know, I don’t know what more Tim Hudak could do to prove his “Principled Conservatism” bonafides short of personally hurling a brick through the window…
The day after he was returned to his family by an abductor, three-year old Kienan Hebert (right) plays with his siblings as though nothing had happened. I believe I heard…
Why do we remember and commemorate some human tragedies and neglect others? Natural disasters make the headlines, but they aren’t commemorated, other than with a plaque or similar kind of…
Time to revise our mental image of the “Third World,” methinks. Perhaps their police can train our police, assuming that the latter are trainable. Here’s how they do a takedown…
Whatever one thinks of Dalton McGuinty’s fairly restrictive tax-credit plan to encourage the economic integration of new Canadians in Ontario, surely we can agree that the proposal should be debated…
…doesn’t get much more chutzpah-ish than this. Tony “Gazebo” Clements, at a pro-Hudak rally, rails against governments “wasting your money.” I’m speechless. ...
The media are now busy crafting a screenplay. A relatively unknown Conservative MP, Bob Dechert, caught flirting by email with a press official from China. A suggestion—less than a whisper—of…
