Vancouver policeare refusingto disclose whether they use, or have ever considered using, a controversial mass-surveillance device widely adopted in the United States and vigorously condemned bycivil liberty groups.

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In the first of a series of dispatches from the US’s poorest communities, we visit Beattyville, Kentucky, blighted by a lack of jobs and addiction to painkillersPart 2: Poorest town in poorest state: segregation is gone but so are the jobsPart 3: The poorest border town: no immigration papers, no…

Roger Bennett and Michael Davies’s ‘little podcast that could’ has grown into a mini-empire. As BlazerCon opens in New York, Graham Parker asks what drives them

1. Do the male inmates at Spring Hill Corrections Facility like weaving? Well, it's so funny. Some of them ask me, "Mama, why are we weaving? This is a women's thing." I say, "Who has been telling lies to you?" It's men who do the...