Politics and its Discontents

Contrary to what governments want their citizens to do, that is precisely what the following Star letter-writers are engaging in as they ...

Despite the polls currently showing majority support for Canada's joining in the war against ISIS, the Prime Minister may find that its...

Yesterday, in response to a picture I posted quoting Herman Goering on the ease with which people can be manipulated into war, Scotian, a...

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

By now, the plight of government scientists is reasonably well-known. Despite the Harper propaganda machine's vehement campaign to den...

Some may think this clever. I just think it is pathetic (and I'm not even a fan of the Liberals).

As deeply suspicious and cynical as I am about institutions, it is probably not surprising that I view with a jaundiced eye the events su...

Time to cut our losses ?

The latest attack ad , this one against newly-appointed Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau, serves as a timely reminder of the Harper gov...

This, I assume, requires no further comment:

I suspect many will agree that this ad says more about the Conservative Party behind it than it does about its subject: UPDATE: This St...

That the Harper regime uses a myriad of tactics to exploit, manipulate and deceive the Canadian public through its propaganda, demagogu...

To absorb and spread this message . Watch, learn, and heed: Ignore the ugly rumours spread by enemies of the state that Dear Leader advo...

Many thanks to Accidental Deliberations for providing information on this Q&A with Allan Gregg , a good companion piece for his ...

There are two letters of particular note in this morning's edition of The Toronto Star, one a propaganda piece from our much belea...

Part of the orthodoxy of right-wing ideology is that corporate tax-cuts are an unalloyed benefit to the economy. The argument goes tha...

Interesting, isn't it, that despite the propaganda coming out of both Alberta and the Prime Minister's Office about oil being the...