"I've been treated as a bad person for so long, I feel I have to prove I'm not a bad person. Everything I do, I have to be aware of being proper, of not making a mistake."...
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms took a wee hit last week when a Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice told a retired Dartmouth resident that he has no right to put his surname on a vanity licence plate....
Grabher's critics are as indifferent to the free speech rights of those they disagree with as Joseph McCarthy’s apologists ever were....
The system enriches lawyers, commissioners, and human rights bureaucrats, while denying funds that could correct the cruelty our province inflicts upon its weakest citizens ...
Butts's statement also included what had been missing in the PMO's defense: a full-throated denial, devoid of weasel words. ...
People with mental illness fill Canada’s prisons. Their conditions often go untreated. But if a relative is a veteran, there's a chance they might get help. Or there was a chance until Tuesday....
There’s only one thing wrong with the story you've heard about that fatal prom night accident in Leitches Creek: Almost every detail is false....
Stop crying wolf. Stop pretending trivial and far-fetched risks are everyday perils. If you must fear something, fear something real. Worry about texting drivers, not great white sharks. Most of all, stop wallowing in ersatz connections to distant tragedies. We live in the safest place in the world, at the safest time in history. We must resist those who would swaddle us in fear....
When documents released by Edward Snowden revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) routinely hovers hoovers up metadata on telephone calls made and received in that country, officials first lied about the practice, then defended it on grounds the information obtained was trivial. President Obama insisted the gathering of metadata amounted only to "modest encroachments on privacy" and "a circumscribed, narrow system directed at us being able to protect our people." He emphasized that NSA was "not looking at content." A new, crowdsourced study shows that telephone metadata—information that includes the date, time, and length of phone calls, and the numbers called, but not the...