The most recent scandal to touch Toronto's mayor, Rob Ford, involves allegations he smoked crack cocaine. Now, the allegations come second hand in the Toronto Star, and while the Star is a very legitimate newspaper it is also famously feuding with Mayor Ford. Some Toronto Star reporters saw a video...

Monday's announcement that the RCMP broke an apparent terrorist ring set to derail a VIA passenger train is good news. It shows that Canada's existing terrorism laws work.

What the announcement does not show is the need for draconian new laws.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews says Canada needs...

A dreadful murder in Toronto where the suspect was on bail has, once again, led to media outrage. Calls to restrict or even prohibit bail have been made. Even the Justice of the Peace who heard the bail hearing has been pilloried for implementing a publication ban required...

Another jail opened in Nunavut last week. It is long overdue -- the existing facility in Iqaluit, Baffin Correctional Centre is, as Justice Mahar of the Nunavut Court of Justice recently said, "notoriously over crowded and under resourced."

BCC, as Baffin Correctional Centre is usually called, is far from the...

There are two possibilities -- Idle No More means not a whole lot, or is the beginning of a national awakening of a slumbering giant.

It is possible that the Idle No More protests are nothing more that the spontaneous outbursts of a few frustrated at the failure of aboriginals...

"Is that the demeanour of someone who is trying to hide something or is it the demeanour of an honest man?" Lawyer Alan Lenczner thundered upon hearing last February's speech by Toronto mayor Rob Ford. In it, the mayor defended a charity he runs for high school football teams, under...