Politics and its Discontents

The other day I wrote a post on Jim Flaherty and his 'legacy,' inspired by two columns published in The Star. On this day of his ...

I have thus far avoided writing about Jim Flaherty's passing for a very simple reason; it is difficult, if not impossible to keep sepa...

If, like me, you were rather appalled by the hypocritical yet predictable enconiums offered to Jm Flaherty by his political foes, you will...

I hope readers don't think I have grown lazy or burnt-out when I reprint letters from The Toronto Star. It is just that their observa...

More of the white stuff has fallen, and I can ignore the importunate call of the snow shovel no longer, so I will make this brief with two...

Whether or not you live in Ontario, you may find Martin Regg Cohn's column of some interest in illustrating the fractured and uneven ...

Although I'm sure that I frequently fall victim to it, I am deeply offended by lazy thinking, our seemingly endless capacity to fall bac...

But then again, perhaps Peter MacKay is only modelling his behaviour after his elders .

It is a very eloquent and heart-felt rebuttal to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s observation that there are “no bad jobs.”

While we reflect on the concepts brought forth by the Occupy movement, namely that the many are ill-served by the control exerted by the few...

In my younger days, I was quite a devotee of late-night television, my allegiance owed almost exclusively to The Tonight Show starring, as t...