Politics and its Discontents

The politics have a look of desperation about them. As they see their electoral chances diminishing among the wider Canadian public with ea...

It's a good question, but unfortunately and predictably, the government is providing us with no answers. As reported in today's St...

Today's Star brings two letters, one on despotic rule and the other on electoral reform, that many would find hard to argue against: ...

I have thus far avoided writing about Jim Flaherty's passing for a very simple reason; it is difficult, if not impossible to keep sepa...

The tale of Eve Adams gets increasingly melodramatic , and increasingly reminiscent of Helena Guergis . That she will suffer Helena's po...

But one , of course, that our political overlords have no interest in considering: Re: Polls expert fears Bill C-23 imperils voters'...

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I sincerely hope that other commentators on my blog do not think I am playing favourites when I repost another's comments as a guest p...

If Stephen Harper's contempt for the things we hold dear as Canadians isn't reason enough to vote, what is?

Bob 'Mad Dog' Runciman has a solution for those pesky protestors who dare embarrass the Prime Minister.

In a column entitled A disheartening year in Canadian politics published on Dec. 20, The Globe's Jeffrey Simpson recounts the corruptio...

But what is the answer? Re: ‘Golden age’ for Poland caps 500 years of pain, Dec. 22 Seeing the statement “communism’s iron grip” was too...

Fallacies of reasoning are easy traps to fall into. Whether it is absolutist thinking, straw man arguments or any number of other errors o...