Politics and its Discontents

I don't especially feel like writing today, so I offer you this from Walt Heinzie :

One of the reasons I subscribe to The Toronto Star is the quality of its columnists. Tim Harper, Martin Regg Cohn, Thomas Walkom, Heather ...

I certainly hope so:

Kind of catchy, and makes for a great singalong, don't you think? They're melting down the ice caps And raising up the trolls. ...

Having spent yesterday recovering from the temporal vicissitudes imposed by trans-Atlantic travel, my first post back will be brief and on...

...he deserves all of the ridicule and contempt we can muster.

Many years ago I read a novel by Jimmy Breslin called The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight , which dealt with profound ineptitude withi...

Last evening I wrote a brief post about Edward Snowden, the brave young man who has made public the fact of extensive domestic surveillan...

Perhaps the peripatetic Pamela is simply a tad confused ?

These are the main topics discussed on last night's At Issue panel: BTW, Parliament rises in about a week. I hope the weather for Har...

Where would we be without their pithy insights?

It must be very comforting indeed to the increasingly odious Senator Duffy that his relationship with the Prime Minister is so 'specia...

This is rather interesting:

While acknowledging that Ontario politics is likely of little interest to those living outside the province, I think there is much wisdom ...

See if you can detect even a modicum of it in Kellie Leitch, who starts talking at about the 9-minute mark of this video dealing with the ma...

As my policy-analyst son has made abundantly clear to me, government policy formulation does not take place in a vacuum. Much time and ...

Last week I wrote two posts on the Harper regime's ideological decision not to impose mandatory reporting of drug shortages on the ...

Best wishes to everyone in 2013. I would like to express my hope that all will enjoy a prosperous 12 months ahead, but given both domes...

I couldn't think of a single hole to punch in this letter-writer's logic, but then, of course, I am not part of the 1%: Re: B...

I really have nothing new to add to the sad spectacle of ministerial incompetence epitomized by Defense Minister Peter MacKay, whose on...