Politics and its Discontents

Contrary to what our self-described economist Prime Minister would have us believe, the jobs that are being created in Canada today are bu...

Yesterday, over at Northern Reflections, Owen had a trenchant post on Justice Minister Peter MacKay, a man who has always struck me as one ...

In response to a post I wrote yesterday , The Salamander left one of his trenchant and masterful commentaries on the myriad deficiencies o...

Yesterday I write a brief post expressing my disdain for the fact that Peter MacKay and his family are on the cover of the 'celebrity&...

The web blurb for Hello Canada! magazine states the following: HELLO! Canada brings you the latest celebrity & royal news from around t...

I have always felt a deep, abiding respect and affection for people of integrity . During my career as an English teacher, I took special ...

In light of the widespread dissemination of tainted beef by XL Foods , one has to ask the role changes made by the Harper regime in Can...

Canada is cursed with a Prime Minister who pretends to be an economist , one apparently intent on returning us to an era when the count...

I thought you might enjoy this editorial cartoon courtesy of The Hamilton Spectator:

The Indefensible Defense Minister, Peter MacKay, continues to insult the intelligence of all thinking Canadians. As one who has followed ...

While the militaristic Canadian Conservative regime, led by flyboy fan Steve and aggressively supported by his Defence Minister, the disho...

Tell Vic Everything . You'll feel better for it.

I really have nothing to add here . The absolute puerility of the Conservatives speaks for itself: OTTAWA—The so-called house of sober se...

As it hauls its billions in profits south of the border, Caterpillar executives should make a detour and stop in Ottawa to drop off the mone...

So the first lesson of the London massacre: Ottawa must be vigilant about vetting foreign investment and retaining jobs, but also mindful of...

I have to admit that nowadays I am feeling the pessimism of old strongly reemerging, not to the point of giving up my blog and whatever valu...

Although those in the embrace of neo-liberalism would have us believe that unions and worker solidarity are but a quaint historical artifact...

The above title, taken from both The Bible and the title of a Morley Callaghan novel , suggests the possibility of redemption. There was a ...

Today's Star editorial offers a gloomy but apparently realistic assessment of the direction Canada's manufacturing is headed in. A...

I'm reproducing another insightful letter from a Star reader, this time from Edward Carson of Toronto, who writes about how ideology rei...