Politics and its Discontents

For a nation that calls itself the greatest country on earth, the United States has a lot of growing up to do. That is the trenchant opini...

We live a world where far too many decisions are heavily influenced, if not determined, by economic considerations. The cost of everything...

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...

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...

While I and others have written about Rex Murphy's close relationship to the oil industry , a relationship that appears to be in direc...

Toronto Star columnist Heather Mallick has a lacerating assessment this morning of the political landscape we now inhabit, thanks to the ...

This morning in her column contrasting Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper, The Star's Heather Mallick offers this hilarious observation...

Yesterday was not a good day for me. First, I awoke to read about the government raid on the Guardian office resulting in the destruction ...

There is little doubt in my mind that the economic chaos defining the lives of millions of people is intentional, not just so their labour...

We become a nation to be sported with: On a slightly more serious note, Heather Mallick offers her thoughts : Rob Ford: Quandary incar...

The title of this post, taken from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, hardly qualifies as a startling insight. Nonetheless...

Given its abundance of tar, I'm betting that some Harperites, along with a generous helping of Albertans (often one and the same) would ...

The older I get, the less patience I have with government that preaches an austerity that has a disproportionate impact on the poor. Of the ...

In many ways, as the cliche goes, laughter is the best medicine. I often think that within the media and the blogosphere, far too much s...

While I have sometimes been critical of my former union, The Ontario Secondary Teachers Federation, both in this blog and my other one ,...

For some time now I have been closely following abuses of power, with special interest in instances involving our politicians and our pol...

Our capacity as a species for delusional thinking and rationalization seems to have few limits, our sad record on climate change and our ch...

Heather Mallick offers an entertaining yet perceptive analysis of the Twitter woes afflicting the man who would be our Lord and Master in ...

"I put 34 years into this firm, Howard, and now I can't pay my insurance. You can't eat an orange and then throw the peel away ...

There are many Canadians, most prominently Prime Minister Harper , who dismiss the Occupy Movement as having little or no relevance for Cana...