Politics and its Discontents

These pictures are courtesy of Press Progress : One hopes that the entire crew will find their hearts broken come October.

The images are graphic and heartbreaking - buildings reduced to rubble, maimed and dead children strewn among that rubble, families fractu...

There is no situation, however tragic, that Harper and his regime won't exploit for political advantage . I guess that comes as no surpr...

The headline reads, Restaurant owners seek meeting with PM over foreign worker freeze The group representing Canada's restaurant ow...

When it comes to the media, it is common knowledge that the right-wing sees the CBC as a repository of leftists bent on perverting all tha...

... apparently is hanging the flag upside down.* Crypto fascists have always been thus. *Hanging the flag upside down is recognized as a...

That would seem to be the mentality behind the Harper regime's chopping of $1.2 million from the federal Justice Department's resea...

While I may write something of my own later today, the letters in this morning's Star are both incisive and damning of the Harper reg...

If we care a scintilla about privacy or any measure of aversion to government snooping into our private business, we damn well should be. ...

In a withering assessment of Stephen Harper, that is the conclusion Andrew Coyne seems to draw in his National Post column : We are so h...

... seems to be undergoing some serious perturbations these days. Earlier in the month came the story of three McDonald's outlets in B...

The other day I wrote a post on Jim Flaherty and his 'legacy,' inspired by two columns published in The Star. On this day of his ...

Although I have never met him, the Salamander, from his frequent commentary on my blog and others', is unquestionably a passionate Canad...

Yesterday I put up a post entitled Apocalyptic Scenes , which featured a video clip of severe storms in the U.S. The Mound of Sound, curre...

* 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...

Today's blog entry is really a video one, based on the testimony yesterday of Harry Neufeld, the elections expert and former B.C. Chief ...

Although I have no sympathy for those who work, either directly or indirectly, for the Harper regime, there is a story in Toronto Life en...

Oh, Rick, may your voice never be silenced.

I don't want to chortle; I really don't. Chortling bespeaks a certain pettiness and vindictiveness that I would like, in my more hig...

I am someone who believes people should never be too happy or contented. Such states breed a complacency that can lead to an indifference, i...