Politics and its Discontents

I will be the first to admit that I get only modest amounts of my news from television. However, due to the severe cold we have been exper...

It is well-known among those who follow politics that governments frequently show contempt for the people that they 'serve.' However...

The above is the title of a documentary to be broadcast tonight at 9 p.m. on the CBC's main network. Here is a brief excerpt: Given ...

Stephen Harper offers so much to so few - tax cuts, increased Tax-Free Savings Accounts, income-splitting, to name but a few of his 'gif...

Those who read my blog on a regular basis will know that I have felt disaffected from the CBC for some time. While I am a supporter of pub...

H/t Occupy Canada

H/t Canadaland The once-prized principle of journalistic ethics continues its precipitous decline at the CBC. Following last years's...

This is indeed rich. Said Prime Minister Harper, in response to the French massacre: "When a trio of hooded men struck at some of o...

The deterioration of the once highly-respected CBC continues apace. Not only has Peter Mansbridge, as seen recently in his year-end friendl...

Wow! Seven Wildrose MLAs are planning to cross to Alberta’s governing Progressive Conservative party, CBC news has learned. Two party ...

But it will take more than an interview by George Stroumboulopoulos to convince me that Justin Trudeau has the right stuff. Nonetheless,...

As far as I'm concerned, this goes far beyond anything that most people would deem reasonable accommodation :

I believe this is ample testament to my heading. Happily, many readers have seen through a cheap, demagogic ruse that once more demonst...

Some critical thinkers might conclude it is the Harper regime, given the curious date they have assigned for four federal byelections.

Despite assurances last year that the TFW (Temporary Foreign Workers) program was being reformed because of a myriad of reported abuses , t...

As reported by Andrew Mitrovica on iPolitiics , the CBC ombudsman, Esther Enkin, has finally reached her decision on the many conflict of ...

While I and others have written about Rex Murphy's close relationship to the oil industry , a relationship that appears to be in direc...

I received the following email yesterday from Jack Nagler, Director of Journalistic Public Accountability and Engagement at the CBC, regar...

Are they right or wrong? You decide. You can read the full story here .

There, Pam Wallin said it , and like all politicians who trot out what has become but a tired platitude, she would now like all of us to tun...