Politics and its Discontents

Star readers have much to say: Harper downplays concerns about trade deal, Sept. 27 It’s a dangerous world but Big Oil, multinational...

As I have written elsewhere in this blog, for various reasons I have never believed that democratically elected governments are necessarily...

I wrote a recent brief post on the Trans Pacific Partnership that Canada recently signed onto, the price of admission being the surrender o...

In my non-virtual life, I like to think that I am a reasonably pleasant fellow who enjoys the small pleasures life has to offer, has a de...

As has already been reported , the price of admission for Canada's entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations is the acc...

Since I have a bit of a busy day ahead, I will be brief and recommend two sources for some Monday morning edification. The first comes from ...

When I was a child, I was afraid of many people: my teachers, who believed in strapping and slapping us as early as Grade One, school bullie...

Yesterday I got a glimpse of the kind of democratic expression that is considered acceptable under the Harper regime. It is one that I found...

I wrote a post the other day about a Leadnow.ca campaign promoting nation-wide demonstrations at the constituency offices of Conservati...

Several years ago, while he was still writing for Canada's self-proclaimed 'newspaper of record,' Rick Salutin penned a col...

I received the following email message last evening from Leadnow.ca: Since the Harper Conservatives announced their Omnibus Budget, mor...

The other day I wrote a post about detecting patterns in political behaviour, opining that most media spend a disproportionate amount of th...

Something that occurs just once is mere happenstance; twice is a coincidence, and three or more times is part of a pattern. - Anonymo...

At least that's all I can conclude given that the ineffectual Investment Canada Act is about to become completely impotent thanks t...

Everywhere we look, more and more evidence of Stephen Harper's intention to betray Canadians through Bill C-38, his omnibus bill w...