Politics and its Discontents

There are some days I almost wish I weren't a newspaper reader. That way I wouldn't be confronted  daily with the world's stupid...

Having abandoned any notion of voting for the Liberals in the next election, I find it irritating beyond expression to be constantly confr...

Anyone who follows politics on a regular basis cannot help but be cynical. Cynical about politicians' motives. Cynical about political...

Many of us who blog, tweet, or post political views on Facebook cannot, I suspect, avoid the periodic and unsettling notion that we are s...

So asks MP Charlie Angus about the subject of this video report , Mike Duffy, who, as we learn, has even less integrity than it would be th...

Checking my Twitter feed this morning, I came upon a link to a story appearing in Sun News, an organization for which I usually refuse to ...

Those of a certain age will remember the much beloved 1970's sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show . Set in a television newsroom in Minne...

For me, one of the biggest offenses against logical thinking is absolutism, which essentially says there is only one right answer, that ev...