Politics and its Discontents

Although I am not a user of medical cannabis, the current scandal (and it can only be termed a scandal) regarding dangerous and forbidden...

Playing to her party's base, Health Minister Rona Ambrose yesterday expressed " outrage " over the Supreme Court's unanimo...

On this blog I have frequently extolled the fine investigative journalism practised by The Toronto Star. Whether on issues of municipal, p...

Although probably a futile effort, here is the letter of complaint that I have sent to the CBC ombudsman, The National, and CBC Audience F...

To borrow a line from one of my favourite Shakespearean plays, Macbeth , "So fair and foul a day I have not seen." It is fair ...

Yesterday I wrote about the fact that Health Canada has 'convinced' (not ordered) Apotex to stop importing drugs from one of its ...

As I have written previously, the scandal of tainted pharmaceuticals continues, and that which should provoke outrage and demands for acc...

Following up on Rona Ambrose's stout denial that the government's planned anti-marijuana campaign has anything to do with trying ...

During my teaching career, it was occasionally my unpleasant task to confront a student with evidence of his or her cheating; most situati...

The Toronto Star recently revealed the following: Health Canada is keeping secret the vast majority of the drug reviews it conducts de...

As fashionable as it is to denigrate the mainstream media for their frequent timidity and conservatism, public knowledge about both Rob Fo...

Two seeming unrelated stories, both connected by one pernicious element: unwarranted government secrecy. In this morning's Hamilton ...

The other day I wrote a post suggesting that policy formulation in the Harper government is conducted not in the measured and studied ...

Yesterday I wrote a post about the plight of Ryan Harrington, the young man who, were it not for a drug called Celontin, would suffer ...

In a world rife with the environmental, economic and social consequences of unfettered capitalism, the term 'industry self-regulati...

It is a rare occasion when I experience a good belly laugh, but the following bogus media release , reported by the CBC's Allison Crawfo...