Angel >> The Hughes Report The long-anticipated report on the 1997 APEC fiasco, made public this week, lambasted federal officials (including the Prime Minister's Office) for bullying the RCMP into action, and the Mounties for unprofessional conduct, poor planning and violating civil rights. Dozens of activists, protesting everything from globalization to the presence of Indonesia's grossly corrupt president Suharto and his cohort of armed thugs, were arrested, pepper-sprayed and generally roughed up. At the report's core is the belief that non-violent protest is a basic democratic right.

Insect >> Sneering British reporters Sure, Edmonton isn't the most glamourous city, but when Daily Telegraph columnist Robert Philip savaged it recently from the World Championships in Athletics, calling it "Deadmonton," "a visually unappealing part of Canada" whose "charms are less than obvious" with residents who are "touchingly--if bafflingly--proud" of it, it seems a bit unfair. Picking on Edmonton is like shooting fish in a barrel anyway. If Mr. Philip really wants a juicy Canadian target in a visually unappealing part of a country with less than obvious charms and a shamelessly jingoistic populace, the Mirror suggests Toronto.