Politics and its Discontents

To which of the myriad Machiavellian Harper strategies do I refer? It's the one that says if you don't like what a group is saying, ...

Doesn't it? H/t The Globe and Mail

For a government that frequently and loudly proclaims its veneration of our military, the Harper regime has a strange way of showing the...

Given the Harper regime's new-found zeal for warning all of us about the dangers of marijuana, and, coincidentally, the equally dangero...

Rick Mercer surely is one of our national treasures:

I can think of not one positive thing to say about Julian Fantino. Apparently, Toronto Star readers can't either: Fantino ‘absolute...

For those of us sickened over the years by the Harper cabal's hypocrisy of wrapping itself in the flag of patriotic support for 'our...

The terrible shooting in Toronto that saw two people killed and 24 injured elicited this response from Julian Fantino and Rob Nicholson. I ...

Contrary to what one might believe reading my various entries on the police, I recognize the difficult job that they have, and I reali...

While there has been a long and sustained objection to Canada's planned purchase of F-35 jets , today marks the first time that the Harp...

My my my. It looks like Mr. Law-and-Order, the dour and humourless M.P. Julian Fantino, may not have been playing by the rules in the las...

If you are interested in why the F-35 is an exceedingly poor choice for our next generation of fighter planes, read this article , where you...

That was the topic of an article in yesterday's Star, entitled, What if every youth actually voted? One of the salutary effects, the ar...

Conservatives quit over Vaughan health-care money So reads the headline on the CBC website reporting that more federal pork is being doled...