I’m not sure why this wasn’t more of a story during the election, but the Afghan Detainee issue has once again made the papers. Afghanistan’s internal security service and police use torture and other abusive methods to extract confessions from suspected insurgents held in a number of detention centres around the country, according to a …
Category: Canadian Politics
The fallacy of the taxpayer
This post has been percolating for a while, and I was motivated to write it by a Royson James column I read a couple of weeks ago. For the first time in a long time I actually have finished everything I needed to do this weekend, so I actually have some time to write. So …
If a Tree falls on twitter, does it make a sound?
I wanted to wait on this particular post for a little while to let peoples’ emotions die down a bit, but I would like to write about the death of Jack Layton. I’m not going to write about the man himself mind you, but rather the remarkable response to his passing. I will say this …
A curse for Doug Ford
… with apologies to all of my Christian friends, and Laurence Stern. Yes, I know I recently offered this on Facebook with Stephen Harper’s name inserted, but I’m beginning to hate Doug Ford with the same level of intensity. Here goes: