Politics and its Discontents

In response to yesterday's post about free trade, John B. provided a detailed commentary that derves a separate posting. Below is wha...

While it is beginning to look like International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland's departure from CETA negotiations was more of a ploy ...

I'll have more to say about this in the future, but for now, some good news for those who oppose free trade deals that sacrifice natio...

While Canadians by and large seem content to sleep through the entire CETA negotiations, uttering nary an objection to a deal that will seve...

A very brief video , but a very important message about the dangers of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism that is a central par...

While our 'new' government continues upon the Harper neoliberal path, apparently never having met a free trade agreement it doesn&...

Despite the rhetoric by our political and corporate overlords about the wondrous benefits of free trade, multitudes of people on both side...

Given that the government of Justin Trudeau is in favour of trade deals such as the TPP, its approval seems a foregone conclusion, despite i...

The federal government has confirmed that it intends to sign the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal at a meeting next wee...

I was not planning to write about the Trans Pacific Partnership deal gleefully announced by Mr. Harper yesterday, trade and economics not ...

H/t The Toronto Star While our prime minister claims, when attacking the niqab, that Canadians hold openness and transparency as soci...

As a youngster, there were few things I enjoyed more than vampire films starring Christopher Lee, in my view the best cinematic vampire th...

Operation Maple (Take Canada Back) is continuing its fine job of reminding us of the terrible way we are governed, offering us frequent and...

According to a CBC report , EU lawmakers are threatening to block a multi-billion dollar trade pact between Canada and the European Unio...

Much has been written about the Harper government's obsession with concluding a variety of trade deals; probably one of the most worri...

The other day I made reference in a post to a study showing that half of the workers in the GTA are precariously employed, meaning they ...

Continuing with the theme of yesterday's post , I am taking the liberty of reproducing some letters that appear in today's Star o...

Actually, our former Prime Minister is more a legend in his own mind, but then, confronting harsh reality has never been one of Mr. Mulron...

There are two letters of particular note in this morning's edition of The Toronto Star, one a propaganda piece from our much belea...