Politics and its Discontents

These days I find I have little desire to think, let alone write, about the Harper regime. Despite the fact that we lived so long under it...

Those of us who follow Canadian federal politics with a critical eye and mind will likely glean nothing new from Carol Goar's article ...

Those of us who follow politics closely and with a critical eye have long seen through the myth his handlers have perpetuated that Stephen...

h/t Montreal Simon In Ontario, we noticed the long federal reach of divisive partisan politics during our recent election. Joe Oliver, ou...

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...

Like a scab (not the metaphorical kind so beloved of the extreme right) that I can't resist picking away at, once more Ontario Progressi...

I'd like to make it clear at the start of this post that I have by no means been converted to the belief that Justin Trudeau would be ...

For those as weary of political attack ads as I am, The Star's Carol Goar has an interesting column in today's edition . Entitled...

As we go about our daily lives, the majority of us, I suspect, share a hierarchy of concerns ranging in priority from the health and we...

In today's Star, Carol Goar writes about a fascinating anti-poverty experiment undertaken in Dauphin, Manitoba which ran from 1974 to 19...