From a Toronto Star article about the police state: “It doesn’t cast our country in a very good light, that we would go to such drastic measures to suppress basic civil liberties, like the right to protest,” said Paul Burstein, president of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association. “It isn’t just the invasiveness of the power that is so troubling, but ( Read more... )

Toronto people who are going anywhere near the G20 zone, read this. The Ontario government secretly passed a new bylaw that gives police and guards the right to arrest anyone who doesn't provide identification within asked, anywhere within the zone. (Specific limits found within that link.) Punishment is up to a $500 fine or 2 months in prison ( Read more... )

Restructure is a Canadian anti-racist blogger (and she is immensely awesome, FTR). She has an LJ feed at restructurefeed if anyone wants to follow it. Anyway, she posted an entry about multiculturalism that I think is important enough that I want to repost it (because I know if I just provide the link, few of you will click through, but most of you will read it ( Read more... )

It's so fucking cold outside, the kind of cold that makes your skin hurt. I had to be out in the cold a lot today (bringing Gavin to school, going to the doc's office and back to get us in the queue, going to the doc's office with the baby and then to a drugstore and then back, going to a grocery store and then another drugstore and back) and ( Read more... )