Politics and its Discontents

Recently, my newspaper of record, The Toronto Star, wrote what I felt was an uncritical endorsement of CETA. The part that especially dis...

While it is disappointing to see that Wallonia has dropped its opposition to the CETA deal, thus paving the way for signing and ultimate r...

While it looks, unfortunately, like the Belgian opposition to CETA is dissolving , it is perhaps instructive to understand the core of Wal...

In response to yesterday's post about free trade, John B. provided a detailed commentary that derves a separate posting. Below is wha...

While it is beginning to look like International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland's departure from CETA negotiations was more of a ploy ...

I'll have more to say about this in the future, but for now, some good news for those who oppose free trade deals that sacrifice natio...

Fifty years ago, Star Trek - The Original Series - began. As a young person at the time, I was quite enthralled by a series that depicted a ...

A recent post I wrote contrasted the apparent indifference/ignorance of Canadians toward CETA with the furious involvement of the Europea...

While Canadians by and large seem content to sleep through the entire CETA negotiations, uttering nary an objection to a deal that will seve...

I have been convinced for some time that the prevailing message of those who truly govern us is that protest is futile. The following puts ...

Recently, I wrote a post about CETA, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; part of it examined the double-speak of Chrystia Fre...

When I think about him at all, and it is admittedly only rarely, I imagine that Stephen Harper is spending some angry days and nights, pro...

Operation Maple (Take Canada Back) is continuing its fine job of reminding us of the terrible way we are governed, offering us frequent and...

Star readers have much to say: Harper downplays concerns about trade deal, Sept. 27 It’s a dangerous world but Big Oil, multinational...

According to a CBC report , EU lawmakers are threatening to block a multi-billion dollar trade pact between Canada and the European Unio...

Despite the best efforts of the ever-secretive Harper cabal, details about the CETA deal are finally emerging thanks to leaked portions o...

For the seasoned political observer, it is Harper propaganda of the the worst kind.

Stephen Harper, the self-professed economist (can you call yourself that when you don't have a Ph.D.?) who 'claims' such sterl...

While all of us continue to be riveted by the ever-deepening pit into which the duplicitous Prime Minister is digging himself over the Duf...

Two seeming unrelated stories, both connected by one pernicious element: unwarranted government secrecy. In this morning's Hamilton ...