Posts Tagged ‘ corruption ’

A Day of Firsts for Ford

Today's events should be a telling reminder of what we can look forward to during at least one term of reactionary, pandering, and short-sighted politics here in Toronto, and the backlash driven political desires of it's dispossessed suburbs[ READ MORE ]

Protesters vs. Police PR

At Toronto's G20 Summit, police repeatedly demonstrated overzealous reactions, but incredulously also allowed a minority of thugs and hooligans to create isolated spectacles for the largely impotent mainstream media coverage to spin into justification for more oppressive brutality. This now appears to be another classic case of propaganda methods playing themselves out again and again[ READ MORE ]

Hell is Other People…Driving Badly

Even good Drivers (Motorists and Cyclists alike) know that there are times when they lapse into bad behavior, and anyone with a sense off conscience will usually correct themselves, and probably thank the stars that nothing worse than a good scare came of their foolishness. Bad drivers, on the other hand, seem to be in [ READ MORE ]

Road Rage: An Escalating Cycle

The recent dismissal of criminal charges against former Attorney General Micheal Bryant might not have come as a surprise to most people who presumed that the best lawyers that money can buy would assure a favorable result for Bryant. What was a surprise though was how easily most people forgot that all of the news they received around his case was beign carefully crafted by the best Public Relations and Crisis Management that money could buy[ READ MORE ]

Mob Mentality

Unveiling Igor Kenk as a comicbook 'anti-hero' in the graphic novel "Kenk: A Graphic Portrait" has made alot of people realise that the Kenk Saga has ceased being a criminal case, and has now become part of the city's culture, and perhaps someday, part of its retrospectively colored history![ READ MORE ]

Property Value: It’s Not Really Yours !

The ongoing saga of Igor Kenk in his role as "Toronto's most notorious bike thief" holds many hidden lessons for all of us, if we're willing to look under the surface for root Causes, rather than simply adopting views of the visible Effects. Take for example our views on what it means to "own" something, and what the law actually says about our presumed rights to hold personal property[ READ MORE ]

KENK: Our Property Isn’t Protected

The ongoing saga of Igor Kenk in his role as "Toronto's most notorious bike thief" holds many hidden lessons for all of us, if we're willing to look under the surface for root Causes, rather than simply adopting views of the visible Effects. Take for example our views on what it means to "own" something, and what the law actually says about our presumed rights to hold personal property[ READ MORE ]

Training Wheels

In poorly stacked systems of power, the Law sometimes leaves us feeling like Justice isn't always served...The saga of Igor Kenk as Toronto's "most notorious bike thief" provides us with multiple views on curing some of the Ills of Society... [ READ MORE ]

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