The writing is on the wall for Penn State’s Joe Paterno. Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials. [...]
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When police go bad
Okay, is this disturbing to anyone else? As 16 police officers were arraigned at State Supreme Court in the Bronx, incensed colleagues organized by their union cursed and taunted prosecutors and investigators, chanting “Down with the D.A.” and “Ray Kelly, hypocrite.” As the defendants emerged from their morning court appearance, a swarm of officers formed [...]
Former Reform and Canadian Alliance MP Jim Pankiw to face charges
From today’s StarPhoenix Former MP Jim Pankiw has been charged with impaired driving, driving with a blood-alcohol content over the legal limit and failing to go for fingerprinting. The incident occurred July 26 in Saskatoon. Pankiw, 45, served as MP for Saskatoon-Humboldt from 1997 to 2004 – first as a member of the Reform party [...]
10 Things That Make Your Home a Target for Thieves
From Consumer Reports A home is robbed every 14.6 seconds and the average dollar loss per burglary is $2,119, according to statistics just released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And that’s the good news because burglaries were down slightly in 2010 compared to 2009. Sure you lock your doors and windows when you’re not [...]
The hypocrisy of the Terrelle Pryor decision
Some of you know I am a big fan of Yahoo! Sports’ Mike Silver. He has a great column on Terrelle Pryor’s entrance into the NFL Supplemental Draft and the hypocrisy that is shown by the NFL by punishing Pryor and letting coaches like Pete Carroll to move on from programs under suspension to the [...]
Someone think of the hamsters
Especially in France where they have been found guilty of not protecting the Great Hamster. The Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the European Union’s highest court, ruled Thursday that France had failed to protect the Great Hamster of Alsace, sometimes known as the European hamster, the last wild hamster species in Western Europe. If France [...]
What happens when a Supreme Court justice performance declines?
From the Globe and Mail Alarmed by the chief justice’s wandering concentration and a fall on the stairs of an Ottawa restaurant, the other eight Supreme Court judges banded together and gave him a gentle prod toward the door. Besides shedding light on a fascinating chapter in Supreme Court history, the story of chief justice [...]
The real CSI
A come to the city Blunders by doctors in America’s morgues have put innocent people in prison cells, allowed the guilty to go free, and left some cases so muddled that prosecutors could do nothing. In Mississippi, a physician’s errors in two autopsies helped convict a pair of innocent men, sending them to prison for [...]
Removing the Roadblocks to Rehabilitation
There are programs that do rehabilitate offenders. So why are there not more of them. Especially applicable in Canada as the debate over Harper’s prison plan heats up. How can this be, when we profess to be concerned about crime? As taxpayers, we don’t want to pay the costs of incarceration. As citizens, we want [...]
(Not) taking care of those that can’t take care of themselves
According to the provincial auditor, the Saskatchewan government doesn’t know how many children are in it’s care But a new report by Brian Atkinson, the acting provincial auditor, released Wednesday said that after two years of urging, the Ministry of Social Services still does not know how many children are under care, who they are [...]
The root of gang violence
Sean Shaw writes about Mayor Don Atchison’s recent comments on gang violence. To suggest that gang violence in Saskatoon is near the point of “drive-by shootings” is irresponsible on a number of fronts. First and foremost, such a statement plays on the fears of safety that many Saskatoon residents have. Secondly, it grossly overblows the [...]
Indoors isn’t safer: Former prostitutes
From the Toronto Sun Katarina MacLeod, who has been out of the sex trade business for the last two years but spent 17 years working in a bawdy house, disagrees with the premise. “Indoors isn’t safer,” MacLeod said. “It is complete hell inside and the customer is always right. They can beat you and take [...]
