Politics and its Discontents

* With apologies to Joseph Scriven's original hymn, What a Friend We Have in Jesus. One can only assume that these days there are fa...

H/t Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper

Despite the ongoing Harper-led campaign of vilification against Thomas Mulcair for his comments about the Alberta tarsands and Dutch di...

Despite the near-hysterical reaction of certain CBC broadcasters to the comments made last week by Thomas Mulcair about how tarsands d...

While the purpose of this Harper-initiated site may be to inspire fear of the NDP under Thomas Mulcair, I think it suggests a measure...

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Following up from an earlier report establishing a relationship between low intelligence and racism, prejudice and conservatism, The H...

Why does the Conservative Party's classlessness never really surprise me? On Saturday, before Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a cha...

Stephen Harper and his wrecking crew continue their agenda of altering the fundamental nature of Canadian society. By engineering an ever-dw...

Stephen Harper's pending foreign investment protection agreement with China, hailed as a breakthrough that will one day make a “very pr...

We live in time when the Harper government seems to be doing everything in its power to persuade Canadians that democracy is meaningless and...

As reported online in the Globe and Mail today, " The Conservatives are set to take another hit at labour organizations, this time thro...

Those with long enough memories will recall a famous confrontation that took place in 1986 between Brian Mulroney, then just nine months int...

The other day I wrote about the fact that statistics show serious crime in Canada to be at a 40-year-low. Despite this, of course, the Harp...

Lawrence martin, in a piece called Has the fourth estate lost its tenacity? wonders whether it is the failure to offer much followup on sto...

Canadian Labour Congress President Ken Georgetti has written a good article entitled Canadians betrayed on cpp reform that discusses the ne...

It seems I was wrong. Once more, the disdain Harper has consistently shown for Canadian democratic traditions and norms is made manifest. ...

Despite the fawning endorsement of the Harper regime by Canada's self-proclaimed 'newspaper of record,' The Globe and Mail, othe...

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...

As I had predicted in an earlier blog entry , propagandist and cognitive prestidigitator extraordinaire Laurie Hawn, employing a tactic wort...