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Once upon a time, I was not only a newspaper reporter, but a columnist. This cautionary tale for campers  is one of my favorite columns from...

G20 Justice. com has been collecting all the horror stories from the G20 police riots. Some of them, like this one, show that the brutali...

First, go read this piece by the Globe and Mail's Christie Blatchford from last week. Then read this excellent dissection of Blatchf...

Aw, that's okay BP! Bygones! I suppose, like Rush Limbaugh and others have said, oil is a natural substance and the oceans will clean th...

Well, that and holding war crimes trials. Context really is everything. If you or I decided to disco dance in front of a Nazi death camp...

"If that bubble touches me, you're going to be arrested for assault" -Constable A. Josephs, Toronto Police  Dear Constable A...

Frank Capra was neither subtle nor wrong. The opening with the words being jackhammered off the cornerstone of the newspaper building tells ...

Once upon a time, in a basement far, far away, I spent an inordinate amount of time playing Dungeons and Dragons and reading comic books and...

Growing up in the Sault, many - if not most- of our neighbours were Italian immigrants. They were the nicest, most hospitable people you...

A lengthy account of what it was like to get swept up by the Toronto riot police and jailed in abysmal conditions for no reason at all. Read...

A few commenters and correspondents have accused me of supporting or at least giving aid and comfort to the Black Bloc Anarchist protesters ...

Dave of the Galloping Beaver guest stars with me on the Maple Syrup Revolution as we spend a full hour discussing what the heck happened i...

 Canada spent about a billion dollars on the G8/G20 summits and had an army of 20,000 cops on call with sound cannons, rubber bullets, peppe...

Look! There's a guy in a black shirt and black hat shouting! OMG! He's asking angry questions about a large corporation! And who  k...

The Toronto police chief apparently thinks it is a cute idea to play silly buggers with the law.   Ha ha fucking ha . This moral cretin h...

Cripes, you leave the country for a dozen years or so and it turns into a fascist police state. Maybe my family should reconsider our plans...

That $1.1 billion had to be going somewhere and now we know where a chunk of it is going -- to a security firm that isn't even licenced...