Politics and its Discontents

When I wrote a brief post the other day on Ezra Levant's disgusting and puerile tirade against the Trudeaus the other day, I had no i...

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...

As I have expressed in this blog previously , it is my sincere belief that the Harper cabal, indeed, the hard right in general, does not w...

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary offers the following definition of obfuscate: to make obscure; to confuse . As an intransitive verb, ...

I have a bit of a busy morning, so I only have time for a couple of short posts. For reasons I have indicated elsewhere , I rarely watch CBC...

Many of us who blog, tweet, or post political views on Facebook cannot, I suspect, avoid the periodic and unsettling notion that we are s...

With the polls revealing that the NDP, under leader Thomas Mulcair, is enjoying 34% of popular support while the Harper Conservatives langu...

During the past year I have written many posts on the sad spectacle of a Canadian democracy in decline, citizen cynicism and apathy rather ...

It's been a long time since I've seen in print the term 'Red Tory', used to describe an economic conservationism balanced by...

As I do most Thursdays, I watched last night's At Issues Panel on the CBC's National News. As usual the panelists, Allan Gregg, Cha...