The people of Surrey, in turfing Mayor Doug McCallum from office, have opened the way for the RCMP to be “rehired” or “re-engaged” as the police force for BC’s largest city. The council appears to be […]
The dog days of an unusually (but now more usually) hot summer are upon us. The US Supreme Court, which should be a beacon of objectivity and justice, has morphed into a theocratic abomination, abandoning the […]
The following article speaks for itself, although it should be pointed out that this kind of initiation ‘rite’ is indicative of a late adolescent mindset that permeates the organization. One can see why the Mr. Big […]
Jason Flom’s brilliant and incisive wrongful convictions podcasts are now numbering in the high two hundreds. There isn’t lifetime enough to ever finish with these scandalous miscarriages of justice. Here’s one that’s near and dear to […]
The United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, a federal appeals court that rules on lower district court appeals and the court of last resort before the US Supreme Court, has agreed to hear […]
This three way interview took place in October 2021; Jason was in New York, Atif in a Washington state prison, and I was in Vancouver. Flom’s podcasts are now the single greatest lifeline for the wrongly […]
The Americas, South, North and Central have been stages for the dispossession and slaughter of native populations by white colonial Europeans. Canada’s peculiar, and no less vicious, version is the residential school program that resulted in […]
In light of the encouraging new efforts by US legal firms to overturn the trial of Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns, I thought it vital to put this case up against the relatively new parameters for […]
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the rush by Trump and his cohorts to fill the Supreme Court vacancy are revealing the extent to which the USA has been flipped by reactionary elements, not conservative, […]
The Black Lives Matter movement is even larger than the anti-Vietnam War protests and every bit as distinguished by the courage of its participants. Back in 1968, during both the Republican and Democratic Party conventions, young […]