Politics and its Discontents

"Bread and circuses" is a phrase that refers to  a government's attempt to distract the public from real issues by providing t...

I am not one of those who chortles when political parties fall into embarrassments or controversy; such events only serve as fodder for oppo...

For some strange reason, this resonates with me:

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...

Yesterday, I posted a video of Russell Brand excoriating the absence of any real choice when it comes to the vision offered by various po...

This one is for my friend The Mound of Sound who, I think, would agree with the sentiments expressed. One thing you can say about Russell B...

It is to state the obvious that all progressives long for the day that the Harper regime is ousted from office. What is not so obvious, ho...

Sorry. False alarm. Turns out it was the sound of Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath doing a fancy dance as she practices her routine for th...

Some might interpret it thus, in that Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath, desperate to retain her job under increasing demands for her resi...

As I mentioned in a blog post the other day , I am currently reading Tragedy in the Commons , a book that examines the gross deficits to b...

My post yesterday on Andrea Horwath's leadership shortcomings provoked a series of thoughtful responses that I am reproducing below, ...

Andrea Horwath, the current leader of the Ontario NDP, about whom I have written the odd past post , may indeed soon be facing the conseq...

As I have written in the past , poor leadership costs all of us dearly. Whether looking at local provincial, federal or international pol...

But, unfortunately, says nothing. As I have noted elsewhere in this blog and in comments on others', I have grave misgivings about th...

Given the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, many in Canada have been dismayed, not by the predictable and uncritical enthusiasm for all thi...

"It" refers to severe storm events of the type that flooded Toronto and Calgary in 2013 and that deluged Burlington just days ag...

I hope you didn't miss it. The events of the past month in that distant corner of the world, the mid-east, shone a light of fierce ...

While the cost of the Israeli invasion of Gaza is almost incalculable in turns of human suffering and loss of life, there is another casua...

Let's begin with the definition of "terrorism." Merriam-Webster offers up a fairly standard definition: "the use of vio...

The science on the theory of climate change is not settled. There is a powerful, scientific consensus that anthropogenic or man-made clim...