Politics and its Discontents

I have written about the virtues of critical thinking many times on this blog, and I have also frequently observed the difficulty of achi...

The other day I wrote a post about the resurrection of Bill C-377, the Harper backed private member's bill that would wage war against ...

So what else is new? In today's Star , Tim Harper tells a tale of the ongoing indefatigable contempt Canada's putative prime minis...

P osted by MoS, the Disaffected Lib: Pierre Backpfeifengesicht Poilievre has declared Conservative war on Canada's "radical&qu...

This one's for you, young Tim . H/t Union Thugs

Yep. Certainly sounds like Harper's got a resounding mandate for change:

It has been said that at their core, bullies are cowards. Usually they set their sights on weaker targets, and when the time is propitious...

In addressing a recent convention of the AFL-CIO, outspoken U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, about whom I have posted several times , offered ...

Ninety-year-old Joy Taylor asks all of us to 'be the voice':

I have to confess that my last few blog posts have felt singularly uninspired. I therefore yield to one of my favourite sources for per...

Were I given to the Christmas flights of fancy that prompt people to compile impossible wish lists that usually include a desire for wo...

In my favorite Shakespearian play, Hamlet , there is a scene wherein his erstwhile friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, explain that ...

That perhaps might have been the call in Michigan yesterday, as it joined 23 other states in enacting so called 'right-to-work-legislati...

In its ongoing and odious servitude to a reactionary constituency, the Harper regime continues to use the heavy hand of government to t...

In two recent posts , I discussed Bill C-377, a Harper-driven anti-union measure disguised as a private member's bill. Introduced b...