Politics and its Discontents

Those of us who have been following the machinations of our Machiavellian prime minster know that he seems intent on remaking Canada in hi...

Almost four years ago I wrote a post on failed leadership, using the Elizabethan notion of The Great Chain of Being as it pertained to the...

I am dismayed over the general collective amnesia that has once more taken hold of political leaders and the public over the latest so-cal...

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...

The images are graphic and heartbreaking - buildings reduced to rubble, maimed and dead children strewn among that rubble, families fractu...

If the above interests you, you may wish to take a few minutes to check out Haroon Siddiqui's column in today's Star . Entitled Pa...