Politics and its Discontents

The fact that I experienced physical and verbal abuse at the hands of my teachers during my Catholic education probably has a lot to do wi...

Like many who follow politics closely, I consider myself to be deeply cynical. Probably the best window into the human soul, politics is t...

I don't want to comment directly about last night's Ontario election, given that it has been incisively and very competently obser...

While we should be back from our trip tomorrow in time to catch the Ontario election news coverage, this seems an opportune time to remin...

Tom, a friend of mine, posted the following on Facebook yesterday: Kind of tired of all the polemical posturing in the latest election. ...

H/t Theo Moudakis If you have resided in Ontario for some years, and were of a certain age when Ontario's Common Sense Revolution wa...

H/t Ruth Blair

I imagine that many people who follow politics closely do so in the belief that it is one of the few arenas that offers the possibility of...

That is the conclusion Rick Salutin recently came to in a column entitled Andrea Horwath's right-wing populism . Describing her as ...

While those heard-headed pragmatists who rule the world today often disdain 'soft' subjects like English literature, sociology, an...

The mask of boyish innocence was slowly slipping away from young Tim Hudak. H/t Toronto Star H/t Ray Mirshahi