Politics and its Discontents

While the Trudeau government engages in public double-think exercises (expansion of pipelines AND climate-change mitigation!), those hoping ...

The Salamander has been doing a lot of thinking, and has some questions. Read his post, and feel free to weigh in: .. the other day, I w...

Ed Tanas has perhaps hit upon the reason for the pitbull's pending egress from federal politics: John Baird resigning due to PTED (Po...

Never ones to shy away from expressing strong opinions, Toronto Star readers weigh in again on the best way to try to defeat Mr. Harper i...

Earlier in the week, I reproduced a Star letter-to-the-editor written by Eric Balkind , who urged the other federal political leaders to a...

I have often extolled the quality of letters written by Toronto Star readers. Today, a particularly cogent missive from Eric Balkind , wh...

Although it started out quite ominously with heavy downpours, yesterday turned out to be a good day. As the clouds cleared, we hopped on the...

An editorial cartoonist captures a Heritage Moment nicely:

Many political observers and bloggers, including me, have lamented the fact that outside of style, little separates the policies of either...

With the dawning of 2014, may the new year see increasing numbers of Canadians who: REJECT the Conservative Party of Canada and its effor...

In a column entitled A disheartening year in Canadian politics published on Dec. 20, The Globe's Jeffrey Simpson recounts the corruptio...

... I think of Canada's citizenry, in its willingness to take whatever the Harper regime dishes out in the way of mean-spirited, regress...

I had planned this to be my first piece post-holiday, but Nelson Mandela's passing yesterday prompted my post about that giant who walk...

That's the highest praise I can think to extend to young Justin Trudeau, who many see as the best hope of unseating Mr. Harper in 2015...

In response to a post I wrote yesterday , The Salamander left one of his trenchant and masterful commentaries on the myriad deficiencies o...

I am well past the age where I expect very much from our politicians, especially given the current level of disengagement among the Canadian...