Politics and its Discontents

In my previous post , I mused about how much better society could be if we had fair and progressive taxation, taxation that forced those who...

As a matter of course, I allow myself one hour of television news per evening, 30 minutes local and 30 minutes of either American or Canadia...

That's precisely what Rutger Bregman did at Davos last year: H/t Alex Himelfarb Breman talks about the reaction he received from h...

The old myth that tax cuts, especially of the corporate kind, create jobs, continues to be circulated. Indeed, here in Ontario, PC leader ...

In Part 1, I tried to establish that there is a gross discrepancy between the rhetoric and the reality of Justin Trudeau's promise to...

In yesterday's Star , Christopher Hume had occasion to call Prime Minister Trudeau the princeling practitioner of the politics of appe...

Mature, that is, until CNBC's Rick Santelli opens his mouth:

Thee are many who assert that the Occupy Movement has no relevance in Canada because we have a social safety net and other measures that pro...

I recently wrote a couple of blog posts on Warren Buffett and the need for higher taxation of the very wealthy, an idea that is gaining cur...

Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren speaks on the topic of fair taxation: