Politics and its Discontents

The other day, I posted about our successive governments' inability to resist the siren call of the corporate imperative, wedded as they...

As you likely know, Jeff Bezos is currently searching for a second headquarters for his company, Amazon. And much to the delight of Ontari...

Robert Reich continues to fight the good fight.

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” ― Winston S. Churchill The above is clearly not in accord with...

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 ...

In response to a recent blog entry that discussed Rex Murphy's most recent oil-shilling efforts, The Salamander alerted me to a Desmo...

We are regularly told, both by governments and their corporate confederates, that these are tough times, and that only patience and a free...

Given that the government of Justin Trudeau is in favour of trade deals such as the TPP, its approval seems a foregone conclusion, despite i...

Please pardon the rather inarticulate nature of this post's title, but it seemed appropriate in dealing with this subject: And it wo...

That's how Former Secretary of Labour Robert Reich, in this brief but very illuminating explanation , describes the Trans Pacific Partne...

H/t The Toronto Star While our prime minister claims, when attacking the niqab, that Canadians hold openness and transparency as soci...

Although directed to an American audience, these warnings are equally applicable to Canada: The Trans Pacific Partnership is a zombie that...

Orphan diseases are perhaps the most cruel of illnesses. Frequently life threatening, they afflict only a very small percentage of the worl...

While The Star's David Olive recently wrote an article extolling the economic benefits of the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership, othe...

At least. that's what I infer from the blather of Catholic League President Bill Donohue: No doubt, obeisance to the corporate age...

Although far from a biblical scholar, I find the above line, taken from the Book of Acts, to be an apt title. Even though I am taking it o...

This is one of those days when I haven't felt like writing anything. And George Orwell said just about everything better, anyway. H/t...

If you have as low an opinion of the CBC's disgraced chief business correspondent, Amanda Lang, as I do , watch the following video. I t...

Yesterday's post revolved around The Next System Project, an initiative committed to exploring replacements for the traditional institu...

His is a quiet eloquence that speaks far louder than all the braying our political 'leaders' engage in with abandon. Harry Smith, ab...