I read Greenwald’s post on the Palin Yahoo Hack this morning on my train commute to work. With precision and poise he rips into the Republican’s childish hypocrisy.
Still, it’s really a wondrous, and repugnant, sight to behold the Bush-following lynch mobs on the Right melodramatically defend the Virtues of Privacy and the Rule [...]
As the Green Party unveiled the party’s platform plank on marijuana legalization and taxation Elizabeth May apologized for having not smoked pot:
“I am not a fan of marijuana use,” May told reporters at a campaign stop in Halifax, televised nationally. “I’ve never used marijuana. I apologize.”
The Green Party in its policy document said decades-old marijuana [...]
Almost a year since Robert Dzienkanski’s death at the Vancouver airport and citizens still reeling from the police-riot at the RNC, the National Post chimes in on the RCMP taser report:
Canadians shouldn’t have had to wait for an Access to Information Request to drag an RCMP investigation on the force’s use of Tasers into the [...]
Spectacular news from Britain. The Guardian writes today Greenpeace activists have been found not guilty of criminal damages after using climate change as a defense. Accused of causes £30,000 of criminal damage at a coal-fired power plan, they argued causing property damage to the plant was necessary to prevent wider property damage as a result [...]
Keeping track of the allegations of criminal wrongdoing lobbed at the Bush Administration can be a challenge. Slate.com has kindly compiled this handy Venn diagram to help you manage who’s accused of what and how they’re all connected.
Their final advice for managing the deluge of evidence? “If all else fails, fall back on this [...]
I haven’t discussed Omar Khadr since video of his “interrogation” by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service at the Guantanamo prison camp was released by his lawyers.
Partly, this is because I’m not sure what to say about it. Surely, the video isn’t an accurate portrayal of Mr. Khadr’s illegal kidnapping and torture. The dismissive and [...]
Increasingly, we’re realizing that helping women is the best first step in an array of issues. Data and experience demonstrate that dollars and effort invested in women return more good to the community than delivering to the state or to men. Women tend to reinvest in their families and communities before themselves and policy and [...]
The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) made history today by overturning the US$2.5 billion in punitive damages granted to the victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster. It was, they determined, excessive — and therefore reduced to US$507 million. Remember, too, that the US$2.5 billion was about half of the US$ 4 billion that [...]
Earlier this March City Council began looking at an anti-crime proposal that would see as many as twenty-four surveillance cameras installed downtown.
Those concerned about potential risks to public-space privacy mobilized immediately. Within hours of the story hitting the Calgary papers my internets were bombarded by emails, Facebook group and event invites, and Twitters with [...]
When Omar Khadr was 15, he was kidnapped and illegally imprisoned (pardon, extra-judicially detained) by the United States military. He has been held in Guantanamo Bay, as the last Westerner, since 2002 — after his seizure at an Afghanistan firefight between militants and U.S. troops. The (then) young Khadr was accused of throwing a grenade [...]