Politics and its Discontents

The ancients, when they wanted to know the future, often examined the entrails of birds. It was believed such dissections could augur both g...

I think we all realize that democracy in many parts of the world, including our own, is in a state of malaise. The threats we face are not s...

 And the gold medal winner in the back flip category is: Andrea Horwath. H/t Theo Moudakis

In the Book of Luke , Jesus is reported to have said the following: I tell you that ... there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner ...

Sorry. False alarm. Turns out it was the sound of Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath doing a fancy dance as she practices her routine for th...

Some might interpret it thus, in that Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath, desperate to retain her job under increasing demands for her resi...

My post yesterday on Andrea Horwath's leadership shortcomings provoked a series of thoughtful responses that I am reproducing below, ...

Andrea Horwath, the current leader of the Ontario NDP, about whom I have written the odd past post , may indeed soon be facing the conseq...

It seems I , Martin Regg Cohn and Cheri DiNovo aren't the only ones to take issue with Andrea Horwath's leadership these days: R...

But only a little bit. And only because her campaign is being criticized from within. As I noted in a recent post , Ontario NDP leader An...

The other day I wrote a post critical of the 'blame game' being played by the NDP's Andrea Horwath to excuse her lack of prog...

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...

It would never occur to me to withhold my vote in any election. Yet the one occurring in Ontario on June 12 is particularly striking in it...

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

Maybe I am just angry because a progressive budget was dismissed by an allegedly progressive party. Maybe I am fearful that an NDP-induc...

Perhaps NDP leader Andrea Horwath will be, for forcing an unnecessary Ontario election, if the results of a new Forum Research Poll hold ...

While I realize that the politics of Ontario is likely not a riveting subject for those living in other jurisdictions, I nonetheless offer...

But unfortunately, the politically timid ( opportunistic ?) leader of the Ontario NDP, Andrea Horwath, doesn't really have much to say...

A frequent contributor of commentary, ThinkingManNeil , responding to my post earlier today, left an insightful and incisive analysis of ...

Sorry for the provincialism of some of my recent posts, but I can't quite ignore political hypocrisy on any level. Three recent entries ...