Politics and its Discontents

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

O'Brien held up his left hand, its back toward Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended. "How many fingers am...

2015 is not very far away. It may be the year of liberation, the year Canada reclaims its collective soul, or it may be the year in which ...

Although I have only made reference to him three other times in this blog, Nelson Mandela is a person who I revere like no other. And of c...

Where would we be without their pithy insights?

Woke up this morning thinking of our friends in the animal kingdom, and their affinity for their counterparts in Ottawa.

In his column this morning, Thomas Walkom suggests that Mike Duffy's current scandal-plagued problems are representative of much deeper...

Many of us who blog, tweet, or post political views on Facebook cannot, I suspect, avoid the periodic and unsettling notion that we are s...

What is one of the chief effects of the Harper regime's preference for an ideologically-based policy model over one premised on logic,...

Cause and effect. Sometimes the relationship is obvious, as in, for example, a cigarette left smoldering on a couch and the subsequent con...

Best wishes to everyone in 2013. I would like to express my hope that all will enjoy a prosperous 12 months ahead, but given both domes...

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

This thoughtful Star reader provides his answer : As I attended the Remembrance Day ceremony on Sunday, I thought of all those who di...

Given the province's rather fanatical conviction that its tarsands projects should be subject to little or no oversight, it might b...

Yesterday started out pleasantly enough. After enjoying my wife's home-made cereal, a piece of toast and some coffee, I decided the wea...

During the past year I have written many posts on the sad spectacle of a Canadian democracy in decline, citizen cynicism and apathy rather ...

In what looks like yet another invitation by the Harper regime to corporate thievery in Canada, Human Resources Minister Diane Finley last w...

The litany of abuses, even crimes, against democracy committed by the Harper government is indeed long . Probably the gravest damage done by...