Politics and its Discontents

As a youngster, there were few things I enjoyed more than vampire films starring Christopher Lee, in my view the best cinematic vampire th...

Once more, editorial cartoonist Graeme MacKay scores a solid bullseye. As does Corrigan over at The Star: And let's not forget...

H/t ipolitics

Perennial posterior pain K(T)ory Teneycke just won't go away. Currently a Conservative Party campaign spokesman, he once again appears t...

It seems that our Prime Minister may have violated his own anti-terror law against terrorist imagery and propaganda. As reported by CTV , ...

Dear Demagogue (a.k.a. Stephen Harper) is out and about sowing his usual hateful divisiveness : Prime Minister Stephen Harper says "...

Given their losing ways, on one level it is not surprising that the Toronto Maple Leafs brought in the military the other night. But on anot...

Hmmm.... it seems that the CBC has not yet quite capitulated to the Harper regime, at least when chief appeaser Peter Mansbridge isn't h...

If the progressive community is to have any hope of ridding the country of the Harper scourge next election, it must be relentless in remind...

Having returned from our Cuban sojourn last evening, I have not yet had time to get caught up on the Canadian political scene, but this item...

About two weeks ago, the Toronto Star carried a story about the Harper regime's engagement of the services of a publicity agency called...

... this deserves one more play. For a full review of the abysmal Harper Veterans Affairs record, check out the good work by the good folks ...

Although there is no official prize, except possibly the profound gratitude of all those who aspire to rid our country of the Harper regim...

Weakly constituted as I am when it comes to tolerating disingenuous and dishonest political theatre, I was unable to watch the Chief Prevari...

Those of us who follow politics closely and with a critical eye have long seen through the myth his handlers have perpetuated that Stephen...

Dishonest and manipulative, such taxpayer-funded government propaganda deservedly earns the scorn of Rick Mercer:

This latest anti-drug propaganda public service ad from the Harper regime is not being well received . Here is a sampling of the critic...

H/t The Globe and Mail Now that the United States and China have signed a deal to drastically reduce their carbon emissions, one can onl...

I have to confess that all of the extra 'enthusiasm' for this year's Remembrance Day makes me uneasy. Poppy sales are at an al...

Yesterday's post revolved around a column by The Hamilton Spectator's Andrew Dreschel in which he questioned whether the circumst...