I've spent a fair amount of time on this blog discussing the Calgary Police Service, often in critical tones.

I've written previously about the problems that criminalizing commonly-used recreational drugs causes here in Calgary.

A settlement in the price-gouging and insider-trading case in which power provider TransAlta profited to the tune of around $25 million dollars has finally been reached, and it looks like…

As reported in the Calgary Herald, Calgary has a new Chief Crown Prosecutor.

My lack of love for outgoing PM Stephen Harper is no secret; at best, we have strikingly different views on what is best for Canada and its people and on…

Now it's not just the real Calgary Police Service you need to watch out for.

Given the significance of the recent election and the amount of attention paid to the campaigns, we might be forgiven for overlooking some other important events in Calgary over the…

Just in case there was any question as to where Canada's immigration policy was headed under this Conservative government—the same government that backed and managed to pass Bill C-51, also…

Ubaka Obogu, a professor of law at the University of Alberta, is the epitome of the Canadian immigrant success story.

As reported in the Calgary Sun, a man wearing a Confederate flag—the flag of the South in the US Civil War and often interpreted today as a symbol of white…

There's a new sheriff in town. . . sort of. . .

The answer to the question in the title is, of course, "absolutely nothing," but that answer only works for those of us living in reality.

What others might see as a sign of success is being interpreted—by some members of the Calgary Police Service, at any rate—as a tough challenge that they might not be…

For the second week in a row, I find myself largely applauding an initiative taken by the Calgary Police Service (for those of you who worry that I might be…

As a Calgary criminal defence lawyer, I have the rights and freedoms of Canada's citizens on my mind day in and day out—it comes with the territory.

A recent editorial in the Calgary Herald points out the unusual fact that Canada still has an anti-blasphemy law on the books: if you mock, ridicule, misrepresent, or otherwise degrade…

For any of my regular readers, it might seem like I'm always railing against the Calgary Police Service.

As one of Calgary's most outspoken defence lawyers, I unashamedly and unreservedly stand beside anyone in the Greater Calgary Area who has been accused of a crime—any crime.

Even as medical marijuana in Calgary is becoming a reality, the drug remains a common source of criminal charges ranging from possession to trafficking, even when small amounts of the…

Continued from Part 1. Criminal justice research has been going on for over a century, and the results couldn't be clearer: harsh punishments don't prevent crime.

Anyone who knows me knows I'm not a big fan of Stephen Harper or his Conservative cronies, but it isn't simply a political divide that has me seeing red after…

Much has been made of the recent rise in shootings and other violent crimes in Calgary.

As dismayed as I am by the increasingly fear-based, police-state-leaning government of our fair country, I can at least be thankful that we aren't nearly as far to the right…

Appointing judges to the provincial court bench is always a little tricky.