Toronto's brutal cops and their shit-for-brains enablers

Have you ever stewed about something for weeks, months on end, and never been able to put it into words? You keep turning it over and over again, picking at it like a scab, unable to leave it alone? And then someone comes along and crystallizes it in maybe two or three sentences?

Is this what they call a cheap shot?

Four senior Conservatives charged with violating Elections Canada spending laws.

This could be where we juxtapose the news with all the soft-on-crime rhetoric.

Organized labour under attack, from Pinochet to Ford to Wisconsin

Sometimes the connections between history and current events aren't that easy to see. Sometimes, however, they're hard not to see – especially when they're framed in the context of the widening gap between haves and have-nots, the polarization of society between those who have power and those who do not, and the attendant implications for social cohesion and democratic governance.

Democracy: the latest word to be stripped of its meaning

If you're not reading DownWithTyranny – a marvellous, thoughtful, progressive source from one of our friends to the south – then start now.

Oh look, the cops are investigating themselves ...

... again.

This should go well.

Moments of optimism on the Queen car

It's quite possible that I'm investing this with more significance than it really merits. What can I say – sometimes my inner drama queen needs to get out.

How Hitler would have dealt with Canadian ISPs

I'm not trying to go all Godwin here or anything, but maybe we need to re-evaluate old Adolf.

Seriously, I almost pissed myself laughing at this. This is fucking genius.