Politics and its Discontents

As a retired high school teacher, I follow educational developments within Ontario but only occasionally write about them, my bias maki...

While I continue to remain dubious of what will happen when the Ontario Legislature votes on Dalton McGuinty's budget, I give the leade...

Reading my morning Star , I learned that there is wide-spread support among the public for austerity measures to reduce Ontario's defici...

It is probably largely due to both the verbal and physical abuse I suffered at the hands of my teachers as an elementary and high school stu...

Kafkaesque is a term loosely and regularly bandied about, usually denoting a process whereby an innocent person is subjected to unfathomable...

Watching the news last night, I was reminded once more of how personally repugnant my decision to vote for the McGuinty government is. I ci...

I always try to be completely honest in everything that I write for this blog. If I see reason for praise, I acknowledge it, sadly a rare o...

With the Ontario provincial election pending, more and more opinion pieces will find their way into both national and local papers. I certai...

In what can be seen as either an act of hubris (Do as I say or I will unleash Ford Nation during the fall election) or an act of desperation...

In what has become almost a routine posting to my blog, the Toronto Star has revealed yet another violation of rights arising from last year...

There is a series of letters in today's Star that articulate the ongoing sentiments of ordinary Canadians a year after people had their...

I have written so much about last June's G20 Summit and the widespread violation of Charter Rights presided over by Police Chief Bill Bl...

Loathsome worm that I am, I have spent the past year regularly criticizing the police for their mass suspension of our Charter rights during...

I really have nothing new to add to the continuing saga of the Toronto Police Service's obstruction of efforts to get at the ugly truth ...

Today's story in The Toronto Star shows how the search for the identity of the officer who allegedly beat Dorian Barton is reaching abs...

Politicians should know they are in trouble when even the more conservative elements of society, traditionally unquestioning supporters of t...

Just a short thought for today. Although I am now at the stage of life where I have more years behind me than I have ahead, and have been a...

Having to watch two politicians, Premier Dalton McGuinty and Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, working hard at damage control today over Andr...

I just finished watching video obtained by The Ottawa Citizen showing the manhandling of Tracy Bonds, the 27-year-old woman arrested in 200...

I've been writing lately about the declining political fortunes of the Ontario Liberal Government. Another reason for the Premier to wo...