Politics and its Discontents

Just when I fall into despair that justice will ever prevail, the gods send me a small bone : Former Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro los...

Were they truly public-spirited citizens, the dozens of people recently appointed by Stephen Harper to government agencies and crown corpor...

With tongue firmly ensconced in his cheek, Andrew Coyne writes that we are being too hard on Stephen Harper, a prime minister who has bee...

H/t Theo Moudakis And this from Star letter-writers: Re: Duffy scandal dogs Harper, Aug. 17 Liars. There are many types, just as the...

You remember, I'm sure, what your mother taught you: you are judged by the company you keep. By that standard, almost all of the MPs w...

H/t Michael de Adder

H/t Boycott The Harper Conservatives For those of you who are more text-oriented or want a comprehensive recounting of the depredations o...

For your Monday discernment, I offer this volley of wise observations about that unrepentant felon, Dean Del Mastro, from the usual suspec...

... there were no reports of Dean Del Mastro breaking down in tears, a first for the former star of the Harper regime. Perhaps knowing that ...

H/t The Chronicle Herald

Thanks to Ed Tanas for bringing the following to my attention: Taking its cue from the Conservative Party, the Liberals Party is attempt...

H/t Boycott The Harper Conservatives

It is a mental picture I hope all Canadians carry to the polls this October: “To Duff, a great journalist and a great senator, thanks fo...

Perhaps it's time to send Pamela Wallin and Diane Finley to obedience school?

Many thanks to The Salamander for alerting me to this video, which Richard Hughes posted on his blog, Cowichan Conversations . I am repostin...

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...

have been very busy of late:

Are there things that money shouldn't be able to buy? In an age when the 'wisdom of the market' is an orthodoxy embraced by ma...

About the undercarriage of that busy Tory bus, Star readers have much to say: Ex-Tory staffer jailed nine months for robocalls, Nov. 20...