Politics and its Discontents

  People of a certain age will remember Jackie Gleason and one of his famous taglines: "How sweet it is." Delivered with an insouc...

I was going to post about Doug Ford today on another topic today, but then I came across  this video , yet another testament to his shameles...

Ever resistant to climate change mitigation measures, 'Democrat' Joe Manchin  has succeeded in scuttling most of Joe Biden's am...

The beleaguered Bill Morneau continues in his refusal to answer questions about whether he sold a whack of shares in his company, Morneau ...

Were Bill Morneau the Conservative Minister of Finance, you can rest assured that 'progressives' would be howling for his politica...

The Star's John Semley offers his thoughts on the inadequacy and ineptitude of the CBC's response to the Amanda Lang scandal:

I have only one purpose in this brief post, and that is to strongly recommend that you take a look at Dr. Dawg's latest post . A tren...

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

The steps of Peter Mansbridge and Rex Murphy, I imagine, have a bit of a spring today, content in the knowledge that they are no longer outl...

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...

The comments of guest panelist Althia Raj, from The Huffington Post, are worth the price of admission here as she declares, in no uncertain ...

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

There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to bewar...

A frequent contributor of provocative analyses and insights, The Salamander left a comment on one of yesterday's posts that I am takin...