Press repression in Canada: journalist Justin Brake is threatened with 10 years in prison for covering a protest.

I expect the protesters face similar charges for opposing the construction of a dam. I don't know enough to have an opinion about the dam project, but repression of protesters is as incompatible with a free country as repression of journalists.

The Onion: John Bolton Warns War With North Korea Won't Be Cakewalk Like Iraq.

Vladimir Uglev, Soviet chemical weapons developer who worked on novichok nerve gas, says that Russia did have some in the 1990s and it was used for a murder in 1995 -- but not necessarily by the Russian state.

The Senate is working on a bill that pre-emptively bans certain regulations to limit campaign spending by the rich.

Schools are installing high-tech security such as face recognition and license-plate recognition, in the name of "security", but what it does is oppress the students.

These forms of surveillance technology should be very strictly regulated to limit what data they can collect.