The tragic story of Robert Dziekanski has become an opera, opening on Thursday in Halifax. Composer John Plant and author J.A. Wainwright have put music and lyrics together to tell the tale of the Polish immigrant who died in 2007 after being tasered multiple times by RCMP at Vancouver International Airport. Wainwright says that watching the […]
SIU tries, tries again to identify G20 cop thug
By Alison@Creekside Oversight – noun 1) the action of overseeing something 2) an omission, the failure to do something Dorian Barton was taking a picture of police horses in the park at the G20 summit in downtown Toronto last summer when he was suddenly knocked to the ground from behind with a riot shield, beaten with a […]
Dziekanski’s deadly stapler
By guest blogger Alison@Creekside Staples? That’s your defence — staples? That there was the possibility of staples? You RCMP lawyers have fucking lost it. Millions watched four RCMP zap Robert Dziekanski within seconds of meeting him, kneel on his upper body till he was dead, and then stand around making no attempt to revive him.We […]
Tasering the news
By Frank Moher I recently advised two former journalism students of mine, one working on an article for Chatelaine, the other on a feature for this magazine, that they couldn’t offer money to an interviewee, even though in both cases the interviewee could really use it. That, I explained, is called “chequebook journalism.” And it’s […]
