Politics and its Discontents

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The start of a new week inspires me to look back on the one past; thanks to an array of editorial cartoonists, it was a week not kind to our...

Pinocchio, Snow White and Superman are out for a stroll in town one day. As they walk, they came across a sign: "Beauty contest...

H/t Theo Moudakis And this from Star letter-writers: Re: Duffy scandal dogs Harper, Aug. 17 Liars. There are many types, just as the...

As a Facebook wag described the above, Harper's caucus room post-election. I have always respected Smokey's advice. At th...

Of course, I am using the word narrative quite euphemistically here.

It is perhaps the supreme irony of our age; for the first time in history we have access to a world of information and data literally at o...

Despite assurances last year that the TFW (Temporary Foreign Workers) program was being reformed because of a myriad of reported abuses , t...

They , of course, are all who comprise the Harper cabal, that conglomeration of feckless, ambitious and disloyal louts who, through their ...

As usual, Rick Mercer offers an unsparing assessment of his target, in this instance Tory MP Brad Butt and his outright lie about being a w...

Living as I do close to both Toronto and Hamilton, it is my practice at 6:00 P.M. each evening to flip back and forth between Hamilton's...

Sounds like Rick Mercer has the Harper cabal's number:

It seems I am not the only one to have connected the dots between Harper and Sgt Schultz: RCMP allege PMO played greater role, Nov. 21 ...

H/t The Toronto Star And a Toronto Star reader weighs in on the issue: Re: RCMP investigating Nigel Wright, PM says, Nov. 20 If Prim...

After watching the Prime Minister's ongoing repetitive and wholly unconvincing responses to Thomas Mulcair's incisive questions duri...

The following video is self-explanatory, but if you would like to read more about it and the Harper clan's seemingly endless capacity to...

It is a statistic that should disturb even the most unflappable among us. It is also a window through which we see the bald lie in the Har...

They say that when he was a journalist, Mike Duffy would often regale his listeners with tales of political intrigue gleaned from his many s...

The trouble with lies is that after a time, they become hard to keep track of. The latest untruth from Mr. Harper came today during a radi...

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