I’m off to spend May Week and Beltane in Saskatoon and Winnipeg, the socialist hearts of Canada’s Prairie Provinces. More from the road if I can.

The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has just released a special report on Contacts between Police and the Public in 2005 [313 KB PDF]. Each year, about one in five people in America have an encounter with a police officer, mostly in traffic stops.
There’s lots of interesting information in the BJS’s series of “police […]

Land of living skies and utility box tributes to the father of medicare. Hail Saskatchewan!