Politics and its Discontents

May the Prime Minister and his party enablers wear this award with distinction! P.S. Check out some of the readers' comments on th...

This would seem to explain a great deal about our Conservative overlords.

Those who think that unfettered capitalism is the greatest gift to humanity imaginable will rejoice in the news that even though American s...

If the Harper government keeps an ' enemies list ', which, quite frankly, I have little doubt that it does, given its infernal embra...

Sayed Shah Sharifi , the brave Afghan interpreter, may have been betrayed by the Harper government and our contemptible Minister of Immigrat...

The Star continues its excellent coverage of the plight of Sayed Shah Sharifi , the brave young Afghan interpreter who has been betrayed by...

I have written before about how I feel that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has, in many ways, sold out to the Conservative Governmen...

Readers of this blog may know that I place a great deal of stock in critical thinking. Although I am sure that I stray from it on a regular...

There is a story posted on the Globe website entitled, E-mails cite ‘directive’ to re-brand government in Harper’s name, which reveals tha...

A shocking Star exclusive today, one that will probably be met for the most part with typical Canadian complacency and passivity ('Peac...

Probably to the surprise of few who have tracked their anti-democratic and anti-transparency propensities, last month the Harper regime term...

It seems I was wrong. Once more, the disdain Harper has consistently shown for Canadian democratic traditions and norms is made manifest. ...

While it would be presumptuous to try to predict the outcome of Monday's vote, I am heartened by what I perceive to be an awakening of t...

Despite the fawning endorsement of the Harper regime by Canada's self-proclaimed 'newspaper of record,' The Globe and Mail, othe...

As I had predicted in an earlier blog entry , propagandist and cognitive prestidigitator extraordinaire Laurie Hawn, employing a tactic wort...

On this Easter Sunday, I'm feeling in a nostalgic frame of mind, no doubt inspired by the shifting array of attack ads given the surge i...

The following is a comment I left yesterday on Sue's Blog in response to a post she made about Evan Solomon's Power and Politics an...

For those interested in what Stephen harper has done to set back issues important to all of us, but especially to women, give this about a m...

While conventional wisdom dictates that blog posts should be short and pithy, I am going to challenge it by posting something in excess of ...

Two letters from prominent Canadians, one from novelist Nino Ricci to Stephen Harper, and one from Patricia Pearson , granddaughter of Lest...