Politics and its Discontents

While the Harper regime always touts itself as a government that stands up for family vlaues, evidence once more indicates this is little mo...

Should you ask Rick Mercer if he thinks the Harper regime is treating our vets fairly, he will give you this earful:

Keep spreading the word, brothers and sisters: H/t Michael Nabert

This is indeed rich. Said Prime Minister Harper, in response to the French massacre: "When a trio of hooded men struck at some of o...

I am not a lawyer, but I post the following information for those who are, and for those deeply offended by the Harper government's on...

As I indicated in yesterday's post , the Harper Conservatives seem very selective in 'standing up for the vulnerable'; they ju...

Some would say that the Harper regime's justification for its decision to commit militarily to the fight against ISIS was patriotic an...

But then again, no surprises here , except that it is being leveraged into a fundraising appeal. But it is a bit rich, isn't it, that...

There is little doubt that Alana Westwood will now be joining that ever-growing pantheon of proud Canadians inscribed on Harper's Enem...

And now, thanks to Michael de Adder , we've got a picture to go along with those thoughts:

My friend Gary recently alerted me to this, which should sicken all Canadian citizens. It is a story of corporate greed, massive amounts of ...

It is no revelation to state how hypocritical the current Conservative cabal is. However, those tough-on-crime zealots are betraying new dep...

As a supplement to The Disaffected Lib's excellent post on Remembrance Day, take a look at Rick Mercer's thoughts on a government t...

Please forgive the redundancy of the title. I just came across this little gem from Harper's 2006 campaign via Bill Oates on Twitter, w...

H/t The Toronto Star

The other day I posted a video in which Don Martin denounces the disgraced Senator Mike Duffy. He makes a reference to the exact point at w...

Last week, The Star's Thomas Walkom had an excellent column on Harer-led changes to the Employment Insurance Tribunal that turn it in...

In his column this morning, The Star's Tim Harper points out something that I think many of us are all too aware of: Stephen Harper i...

Given the rather limited scope of the conservative mind, few, I have observed, seem in possession of anything remotely resembling a sense of...

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