Ethics Daily has the best post on the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. I’ve seen.
No glossing, no hiding, Â it asks the tough questions.Â
Braidwood Inquiry
19 recommendationshave come out of the Braidwood Inquiry into the use of tasers by the RCMP in the death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport in 2007. Government lawyer Helen Roberts resigned in July. She broke down on the stand. Dr. Dawg has been relentlessly tenacious in his coverage of the four horsemen and taser use in Canada.
Arrests made in Kingston honour killing
The UN says 5 thousand women are killed every year in honour killing. About 20 occur yearly in Canada.
Kingston, Ont., police are now investigating that as a motive in the deaths of three teenage sisters and an older female relative who were found in a car submerged in the Rideau Canal in Kingston on June 30. The girls’ mother, father and brother were arrested on Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder.
“In our Canadian society, we value the cultural values of everyone that makes up this great country, and some of us have different core beliefs, different family values, different sets of rules,” Kingston Police Chief Stephen Tanner said at a news conference on Thursday. “Certainly, these individuals – in particular, the three teenagers – were Canadian teenagers who have all the freedom and rights of expression of all Canadians.”
He added that he’d received an e-mail from an extended family member of the girls, suggesting honour killing was to blame for their deaths.
Honour killings can be sparked by a woman talking to a man, having a boyfriend, wearing makeup or revealing clothing, or even seeking a divorce, says Diana Nammi, founder of the London-based International Campaign Against Honour Killings. Nammi, originally from Iran, says children of immigrants who grow up in western nations take those freedoms for granted, which can throw them into conflict with their parents’ rigid standards.
Well, well, well! Check this:
[The president of the Cambridge Police Patrol Officer's Association] Stephen Killion also claimed that audiotapes, now in the possession of the city solicitor’s office, will show that Harvard Professor Gates “turned this non-incident into a racial incident.” He said the audiotapes will prove Crowley’s account of the incident and show that Gates “was provoking the incident. He wanted to prove who he was… He deems himself higher than everyone else around.” – [emphasis mine] Source