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Category Archives: Police
Pondering the Media During the 2022 Ottawa Trucker Convoy
The various media systems of the world are overworked, and in the case of many of them, underpaid. This is exposed by the request, below most online news stories, to report any errors. With editors in short supply, the news … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Environmentalism, Health, News of the World, Police, Politics, Social Media
Tagged 2022 Ottawa Trucker Convoy, activism, Alberta, anti-mandate, anti-vaccine, Black Lives Matter, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Corey Hurren, Coutts, fracking, Indigenous protestors Wet'suwet'en, January 6, Nazi sympathizers, New Brunswick, reconciliation, Rexton, Sammy Yatim, trucker convoy, white supremacist
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Hostile Architecture
I recently read an article about hostile architecture and began to wonder about my own city. I’d noticed the trend before in Winnipeg but foolishly, although I should have known better, I hadn’t viewed it as a movement. As our … Continue reading
Marching Against Bill C-51
I don’t think it’s a secret that Canada is shifting into something other than what most of us expected. We always touted Canada as a country that was less warlike than the US, the neighbour we most like to compare … Continue reading
A Stormy Day with the Mad Trapper
The storm the radio had been threatening me with came last night. It began yesterday afternoon, but when I woke this morning there was at least seven inches of snow on the ground, which means travel is slightly more difficult. … Continue reading
Posted in Police, Solitude, The Cabin, The Land, Writing
Tagged Alone in the Wild, Cabin, cabin in the forest, Mad Trapper, Naked in the Road, Richardson Mountains Crossing, Writing
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Writing the Police
I sometimes imagine telling the story of a cop in a police state. I think about what goes on in their head, whether they are merely following orders, like the Nazi underlings claimed at Nuremberg, or whether they are so … Continue reading
Posted in News, Police, Writing
Tagged Arrogant Worms, Cops, George Zimmerman, Last Saskatchewan Pirate, Mountie Bob, Nazi, Nuremberg defense, Occupy movement, Police, Police Brutality, Salty Bob, Trayvon Martin
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