By Doug Clark
Thin Bruised Line
 Lose respect and you lose the streets. That’s the hard lesson American police learned as their cities burned in the 1960s. Today, Canadian police are scrambling to preserve public order from a new “perfect storm” looming over the horizon and under the political radar. Their vaunted thin blue line of front-line officers is greyed, frayed, and stretched to the breaking point. Plagued by failed leadership and too few recruits, our police are frantically digging in behind the scenes against the converging triple threats poised to engulf them: shifting demographics, increasingly complex laws, and unrealistic expectations. The threat to officers and public safety has never been greater.
The Roaring Game
 Lose respect and you lose the streets. That’s the hard lesson American police learned as their cities burned in the 1960s. Today, Canadian police are scrambling to preserve public order from a new “perfect storm” looming over the horizon and under the political radar. Their vaunted thin blue line of front-line officers is greyed, frayed, and stretched to the breaking point. Plagued by failed leadership and too few recruits, our police are frantically digging in behind the scenes against the converging triple threats poised to engulf them: shifting demographics, increasingly complex laws, and unrealistic expectations. The threat to officers and public safety has never been greater.
Dark Paths, Cold Trails
 If there is one overriding point that DARK PATHS, COLD TRAILS drives home, it is this: no city, no town, no neighbourhood in Canada is safe from the violent act of a criminal. But through an improbable revolution in policing, led by an unlikely revolutionary, Inspector Ron Mackay of the RCMP-the Mountie from Moosomin, Saskatchewan-a champion has emerged to help take down those who prey on women and children....
Heart To Heart
 "Rare insight into the emotions, stresses and trauma of major surgery..." (From the forward by Roy G. Masters, MD, FACS, FRCSC, University of Ottawa Heart Institute)
"A humourous and heart-warming book that is entertaining and informative....learn from Doug';s experiences." (W.J. Keon, OC, MD, FRCS, Director General, University of Ottawa Heart Institute)
"The best book of its genre to come along in years." (Terry Kavanaugh, MD, FRCPC, and author of Take Heart!)
Unkindest Cut
 On May 1, 1992, Chinese businessman Rui-Wen Pan was found guilty of the murder and grisly dismemberment of his former lover, Selina Shen. It had taken three trials and four years before a jury was able to hand down a life sentence, marking the end of one of the most expensive and controversial prosecutions in Canadian legal history.
Billion Dollar High
 Forget wheat, forget mining, forget hydro-electric power. Forget the stock exhchange altogether. Canada's largest business doesn't show up in the official statistics - the trade in illegal drugs.
This fact should shock Canadians who admit that the Americans have an enormous drug-problem - but here in Canada? |
