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Herald Editor Needs Hackers

August 19, 2011 22:34

Okay, maybe just some diligent fact-finding would do. I say this in response to the recent Herald editorial comment entitled "Impaired Judgment" which discusses the impaired driving sentencing decision of Alberta Provincial Court Judge Anne Brown in the case of Dominika...

Can I Trust You With My Life?

January 13, 2011 08:08

Dear Sgt. Patrick Webb,As Alberta spokesman for the RCMP, I ask you this question. Can I trust the members of Canada's historic national police service with my life and the lives of my family?I expect that you will deliver an emphatic "Yes, Sir!" to my question without even a pause. What else...

The Sanctity of Assange

December 07, 2010 16:05

This is not a petition to nominate Julian Assange for sainthood...but it is a public plea to the Calgary Police Service and the Attorney General of Alberta:Julian Assange is a person whose life is deserving of protection in the same manner and with the same force of the law as anyone else. In a...

What's the Penalty for "Distracted Lawmaking"?

November 18, 2010 08:07

November 17, 2010 the Calgary Herald runs a story about a 34 year old Albertan who attended at an Edmonton hospital emergency room at around midnight one Friday in September asking nurses for help because he was suicidal.Approximately every hour for the next 12 hours the man came out of the room he...

Penny for Your Thoughts? You get what you pay for...

September 29, 2010 21:15

There are troubling comments in the media in our province today regarding the effect of the Ontario Superior Court decision striking down the prostitution related provisions of the Criminal Code...and I hate to say it, but the most troubling comes from a colleague in the Calgary criminal defence...

Long Gun Registry Vote

September 23, 2010 18:48

I've decided to try to chime in on this issue in the most simple way possible...by asking this fundamental question...what is the purpose of the long-gun registry?If the purpose is to eliminate gun crime...then all right thinking individuals can agree it must be scrapped, for it can never achieve...

Apathy is Unethical - In my opinion...

September 02, 2010 08:43

As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.-...

Police Officers Should Stop Lying

June 17, 2010 04:47

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."- George OrwellI think of myself as being at least reasonably intelligent, so here I go..."One day before he publicly apologized to Robert Dziekanski's mother for the Mounties' role in his death,...

Real Life is Not Hollywood

June 11, 2010 07:45

I am writing to stand up for Cst. Jens Lind of the Calgary Police Service following what has become, in my view, completely misguided criticism of his lack of heroics following a fiery car crash that made headlines in our...

Do as Rick and Alison Say...Not as They Do...

April 01, 2010 23:09

I wonder if any provincially operating pollster will come to my aid on this one. I need to get a sense of how many people in our City can tell me about the firing of Calgary Police Constable O. Valmestad in 1993 or Constable R. Stewart in 1994. I suspect very few.Which is odd, because of the...