Reading Time: 3 minutes When words that demean others are spoken with impunity, they lead to further infringements on our dignity and rights
Tag: Crime
Regulating marijuana is a fool’s errand
Reading Time: 3 minutes The good news: an absurd prohibition on pot is about to end. The bad news: the Trudeau government has tied itself in knots
The day the United States of America died
Reading Time: 4 minutes The United States died on Dec. 14, 2012 when a man gunned down 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School and nothing was done to stop it from happening again
The slings and arrows of (political) misfortune
Reading Time: 4 minutes Justin Trudeau’s mistake wasn’t being a passenger on Air Aga Khan. It was hanging out with a billionaire, and then trying to keep it a big secret
Clintons will likely remain above the law
Reading Time: 4 minutes Obama may issue a broad pardon to the Clintons and all their associates in return for shutting down the Clinton Foundation
Islamic State is a big business machine
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite vast revenue sources – from taxes to extortion to the sale of antiquities to ramsom – the terrorist group faces a cash crunch
Punishing someone for who they are perverse
Reading Time: 2 minutes Religion implicated in homophobia that led to the killings in Orlando
Let’s halt the killer fentanyl tide
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unless Canadians start to pay attention, there could be a wave of fentanyl deaths washing across the country
Why can’t there be a law against creepy guys?
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s a part of me that would like to see a law against creepy guys, even though I know it’s asking too much of our legal system
A glimpse into Vancouver’s Eastside Skid Row
Reading Time: 3 minutes There were drug addicts on the street in 1976, but somehow many of the interactions seemed to involve mentally ill people