Bachmann Opponent Bows Out, Alleged ‘Crack Mayor’ Won’t Quit, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jun 1, 2013 A look at the day's political happenings, including a person of interest is identified in the ricin letters investigation and a liberal activist reveals why he secretly recorded Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Toronto Mayor Reportedly Knew Location of Video Said to Show Him Smoking Crack Cocaine

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig May 31, 2013 Before he denied the existence of a cellphone video of him allegedly smoking crack cocaine, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford confirmed to senior aides at a meeting in City Hall nearly two weeks ago that he knew such a video had been shot and where it was being kept, the Toronto Star reported Thursday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Corporations Have No Use for Borders

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jan 30, 2012 It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable, but that was the old Canada. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Happy Feet: Your Gay Penguin Romance Update

Staff / Truthdig Nov 8, 2011 Fans of the Toronto Zoo's same-sex penguin couple Buddy and Pedro will be dismayed to hear that the bonded pair will soon be parted and subjected to heterosexual retraining measures (paging Marcus Bachmann) -- specifically, placing them in contained areas with females -- in the interest of saving their species. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hundreds Busted at the G-20

Staff / Truthdig Jun 27, 2010 Using tear gas, shields, clubs and pepper spray, police arrested almost 500 people at the G-20 summit in Toronto after a breakaway group of protesters smashed storefronts and set fire to several police cars. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Troubled Times Slash G-8 Aid Pledge

Staff / Truthdig Jun 26, 2010 With the scent of the global financial crisis swimming in their nostrils, G-8 leaders pledged a mere $5 billion in aid to reduce deaths among African mothers and infants, a decrease of 90 percent in the funding promised five years ago at the group's meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Power to the Police at G-20

Staff / Truthdig Jun 25, 2010 Canada's Ontario province, possibly inspired by the decade-long assault on civil liberties in the U.S., has secretly passed a regulation allowing Toronto police to arrest anyone near the security zone for the upcoming G-20 financial summit who declines to identify himself or herself or submit to a search. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Israel Should Pay Attention to a Man of Justice

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 1, 2009 Israeli investigations of the Gaza war, its government officials announced, were "a thousand times" fairer than the Goldstone investigation—a preposterous claim, given Israel's constant inability to conduct fair inquiries of its own—and that his mission "gave legitimacy to the Hamas terrorist organization."I met Judge Richard Goldstone at The Hague at the height of the Bosnian war, a small, dapper man whose belief in the righteousness of justice shone through his every word. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

China Denies Connection With Cyber-Spying Network

Staff / Truthdig Mar 31, 2009 The Chinese government has denied having any relationship with "a malware-based cyber espionage network" called GhostNet, an operation revealed Sunday by a Toronto-based research team. GhostNet is suspected of infiltrating a number of military and diplomatic computer systems, including the Dalai Lama's, and is based in China. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Filmmaker Turns His Eye on Surveillance Culture

Staff / Truthdig Mar 7, 2009 A Canadian filmmaker is combining his love of science fiction with his alarm over the ramped-up surveillance in his native Toronto by putting a specially fitted Web cam into his prosthetic eye -- he lost his own in a childhood accident -- and filming everything he sees. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sad Uncle Sam

Patrick Corrigan, The Toronto Star Feb 18, 2008 Dig deeper