Politics and its Discontents

Whenever our next election rolls around, I'll be ready - ready not to vote for the Conservatives. Ready not to vote for the Liberals. By...

On this blog I have never made a secret of my disdain for those who are willfully ignorant and mindlessly led. To allow someone else to do o...

For the longest time, I have been pondering the timidity of successive governments to be on anything but the good side of the corporate tita...

  As children, we very much enjoyed fairy tales. Stories filled with wolves and innocent damsels, children led astray by heartless witches, ...

  We certainly do live in strange times, eh? H/t Theo Moudakis

H/t Greg Perry

In his column today , Rick Salutin offers a withering assessment of the NDP that I fear is all too accurate. In a phrase, what most ails t...

H/t Theo Moudakis

The climate catastrophe bearing down on us serves to underscore the fallibility of our species and the shortcomings of our politics, as th...

Sad to say, climate change and politics in the worst possible sense are inextricably linked. Even as we face the defining crisis of human ...

It is to state the obvious that politicians and their party apparatchiks are practiced manipulators. They target their demographic, employ e...

When you are young, it is easy to find heroes, people whose daring exploits elicit awe and wonder. When I was a kid, Superman was my comi...

If, like me, you are a retired senior to whom the fates have been reasonably kind, you have the luxury to contemplate the world around you...

As a retired person with no financial pressures, I realize that I am probably part of a comfortable minority. Many across a wide demograph...

In response to my morning post , ThinkingManNeil offered some passionate and very interesting comments. With his permission, I am featur...

It always astounds me that more people are not interested in politics. Far too many dismiss it as an arcane pursuit that has no relevance ...

Harper's moratorium on Senate appointments (the program's start). The likelihood of a federal deficit (10 minute mark). The increase...

That is the question Don Graves asks in his hard-hitting lead letter printed in this morning's Star . Enjoy. I look out my window and...

The images are graphic and heartbreaking - buildings reduced to rubble, maimed and dead children strewn among that rubble, families fractu...

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