Breitbart: (CBS) — The warmest day of the year so far brings hundreds of mischievous teens to Michigan Avenue. Police are calling it ‘mob action’. CBS 2 is learning about multiple incidents in at least four different locations along...
Posted by gnotalex on April 2, 2013 9:45 PM
WebProNews: The bad parts of the bill may be dead, but Canada is preserving one part of it for law enforcement. The police will be allowed to make use of warrantless wiretaps in the case of an emergency, but there...
Posted by gnotalex on February 14, 2013 9:54 PM
BBC: Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over the 2009 deadly earthquake in L'Aquila. A regional court found them guilty of multiple manslaughter. Prosecutors said the defendants gave a falsely reassuring...
Posted by gnotalex on October 22, 2012 9:12 PM
National Post: On Tuesday, the Opposition rejected Toews’ characterization. Holding up his BlackBerry, NDP digital critic Charlie Angus said the bill would undermine the privacy of average Canadians. “Now, every single Canadian citizen is walking around with an electronic prisoner’s...
Posted by gnotalex on February 14, 2012 7:12 PM
Adam Graham: With determination that would make Inspector Javert proud, federal prosecutors have the case set to go to trial on October 4th. The stakes could not be more significant. At issue is whether the fundamental right to self-defense allows...
Posted by gnotalex on September 6, 2011 7:01 PM
every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, first line, Chapter 1 Salt Lake Tribune: Raised in a $1.5 million Barrington Hills, Ill., home by their attorney father, two grown children have spent...
Posted by gnotalex on August 31, 2011 7:24 PM
CBC: An advocacy group is criticizing an unusual decision by Edmonton police to release the name and photograph of a teenager accused of having unprotected sex without disclosing that she is HIV-positive. "It makes you really sick to your stomach...
Posted by gnotalex on August 15, 2011 7:03 PM
The Toronto Star: Ontario's top court is hearing that an alleged sexual assault victim should be allowed to testify wearing a niqab because she will still meet the defendants' eyes. Lawyer David Butt acknowledges the court must balance the defendant's...
Posted by gnotalex on June 8, 2010 8:05 PM
Operator: 911 emergencies. Boy: Yeah I need some help. Operator: What's the matter?...
Posted by gnotalex on April 3, 2009 10:08 PM
Ezra Levant: Some 900 days after I became the only person in the Western world charged with the “offence” of republishing the Danish cartoons of Muhammad, the government has finally acquitted me of illegal “discrimination.” Taxpayers are out more than...
Posted by gnotalex on August 6, 2008 10:06 PM
Back in the days of the Mulroney Government, a report on women and the criminal justice system was commissioned. The purpose of this was to funnel a few million in salaries to the otherwise-unemployable feminist hacks who wrote it. The...
Posted by gnotalex on September 26, 2007 10:09 PM
Joel at Proud To Be Canadian has dug up a lot of information on Jeff Monaghan, the self-styled "anarchist" (I'll put it in quotes, as he denied the description tonight on the CBC) and Environment Canada flunky who is under...
Posted by gnotalex on May 10, 2007 10:35 PM
This photograph by Jason Reed of Reuters appeared in Saturday's National Post, and it made me laugh out loud. (Unfortunately this picture is of somewhat-lower resolution, and I was unable to find a better version.) It shows US Federal...
Posted by gnotalex on April 30, 2007 10:24 PM
CBC: The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a legal ban on reporting early vote results on federal election nights in regions of the country where the polls are still open. In a 5-4 decision, the top court ruled the...
Posted by gnotalex on March 15, 2007 10:17 PM
It might become a more common description than you bargained on. NEWS.com.au: Mexican men who display extreme jealousy or avoid sex with their wives could be tried in court and punished under a new law. Men who phone their wives...
Posted by gnotalex on February 27, 2007 9:03 PM
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