Politics and its Discontents

Given that the unofficial organ of the Conservative Party, The Globe and Mail, has endorsed Stephen Harper in the last three elections , I...

Were it possible for a corporate entity to be appointed to the Senate, I am sure that The Globe and Mail would now be making its presence ...

In the absolutist world of Stephen Harper, there are those who wear white hats and those who wear black. No berets (especially berets!) of...

As much as it is said that the Harper regime is planning to buy votes for the 2015 election by giving income-splitting to families, the re...

Last week I wrote a post about the fraught fund-raising letter sent out by Conservative Party director of political operations Fred DeLor...

Many of us are abundantly aware, as both parents and citizens, of how hard it is for young people to establish meaningful career paths the...

To say that the extreme right is often hypocritical is tantamount to saying that when the sky is clear, it is blue. Nonetheless, I can...

In words eerily echoing Richard Nixon's famous "I'm not a crook" declaration , Globe and Mail plagiarist Margaret Went...

One of the few journalists today holding the Harper regime to public account, Lawrence Martin, has a very interesting assessment of yesterd...

If you're like me, you harbour a certain fascination with Stephen Harper. Never before has there been a Prime Minister who so publicly d...

The Globe and Mail and its sundry propagandists (excepting the principled Lawrence Martin, of course) continue their Sisyphean task of def...

What little is left of the Globe's reputation as a newspaper to be taken seriously has been unraveling rapidly in its non-coverage of th...

As if to once more remind people of how hollow its claim to being Canada's national newspaper is, the Globe and Mail has offered an endo...

I had thought about writing a blog entry on what I perceived to be the excesses surrounding the funeral of Sgt. Ryan Russell, the police off...

It is with some sadness that I announce the termination of our subscription to The Globe and Mail, a paper that we have subscribed to contin...

The phone rang this morning about 8 o'clock as we were skimming the new and 'improved' Globe and Mail, filled with pretty colour...

In Saturday's Globe and Mail , columnist John Allemang wrote a piece from the perspective of Canada in the year 2050, examining the coun...

In today's Globe, Jeffrey Simpson examines the emptiness of the 'reasons' Harper surrogate Tony Clement has given for abandoning...

The Globe and Mail excoriates the Harper Conservative Government over both its decision to end the mandatory long form consensus, despite al...