[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="324"] From ‘The Red Tree’ by Shaun Tan[/caption] Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, the important part is this: every card in the heart suit is worth points, and (just like golf) players want to avoid those points. I played a lot of Hearts as a […]
Rehtaeh: A father’s questions
By Glen Canning This morning I sat in a Halifax courtroom and listened as one of the young men involved with my daughter’s case changed his plea to guilty. He is guilty of producing child pornography. He is the person who clicked the button on that cellphone, and as simply as that, he ended her […]
Vancouver’s dark flaw
By Jim Henshaw I spent a couple of days in Vancouver this week and on a sunny day, it’s probably the most beautiful city in the world. It ain’t half bad looking on a rainy day either. And as the locals say, “Wait twenty minutes” and you can observe it either way. It’s hard not […]
Growth op
A BoB Short Despite new laws regulating the production of medical marijuana, including limiting grow ops to industrial areas, some jurisdictions remain unmoved in their opposition to the burgeoning industry. After six companies in Sudbury, Ontario applied for commercial licences to grow medical marijuana within the city, local police chief Paul Pedersen got a little, […]
RCMP SWAT the Elsipogtog
By Alison@Creekside What was the point of this exactly? Sending in snipers in camo with dogs to crawl through the grass towards a group of unarmed people blockading a road because they fear the wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary of a Houston, Texas exploration company is setting up to frack their land. Oddly enough, Canadian law supports the […]
Curiously convenient: Canada’s me-too bomb plot decoded
Last week, U.S. talk show host Jack Blood offered a dissection of a recent New York Times article about the arrest of two Canadian residents charged with plotting to attack a VIA Rail train. While we haven’t been able to source everything he has to say (we’ve done our best), Mr. Blood is smarter and […]
Changing the channel on Justin
By Alison@Creekside On Thursday, three days after the Boston Marathon bombings, the Cons still had an opposition day scheduled for Monday — a day on which the opposition parties set the day’s agenda. But then on Friday, an hour after learning that Justin Trudeau would spend it introducing his “Backbenchers’ Spring” motion, Government House Leader […]
Amanda Todd’s avengers: not Anonymous enough
By Frank Moher As much as one would like to see some sort of justice for Amanda Todd, the 15-year old BC girl who took her life last week after years of cyber-bullying, what’s gone down on the internet in the last few days is truly disturbing. On Monday, someone purporting to be part of […]
Twitter tale: Civil liberties at the Grand Prix
Wearing a red square was enough to get you turned away from the site of the Montreal Grand Prix on Sunday, and perhaps forced back into a nearby Metro station. Police also conducted random searches on subway platforms, and some riders were not even allowed to exit the trains. One who managed to do so […]
When will Bill Blair do the right thing?
By Frank Moher How is it that Bill Blair is still Toronto’s Chief of Police this morning? How is it that, in the wake of the damning OIPRD report on the “policing” of the G20 summit in 2010, he hasn’t stepped down? How is it he isn’t waking up in his PJs at home this […]
