Politics and its Discontents

  As I tried to suggest in my post the other day, rich people really are different from us, and people like Justin Trudeau, part of that ra...

  H/t de Adder Canada Justin Trudeau has rightly earned severe criticism for his holiday in Tofino on National Truth and Reconciliation Day....

  H/t Greg Perry I am one of those people capable of holding two opposing notions in my head. I think the federal election is an unnecessary...

  H/t Theo Moudakis

Justin Trudeau's increasing propensity for talking the talk but not walking the walk has been noticed by the anti-poverty organization O...

My late father-in-law, a man of deep conviction and integrity, was fond of this saying: "Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the p...

... but doesn't seem to say much. Here is our Prime Minister on anti-Trump protests:

I don't know how many of you remember the 1983 Wood Allen film, Zelig , in which Allen plays an individual with the uncanny ability to...

A few days ago I posted a letter by Star reader Cathy Allen in which she discussed what it would take for her to regain her pride as a Ca...

Enjoy. H/t Toronto Star

... is our renewed pride as Canadians, exemplified by scenes like this, found on The New York Times website :

Two posts I recently wrote were highly critical of both Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair for their apparent embrace, for political purpo...

H/t The Toronto Star Yesterday's post dealt with the profound reluctance of Messieurs Trudeau and Mulcair to oppose Harper's lat...

....knowing that Mr. Harper's fight against ISIS hasn't distracted him from an even greater threat to all that is holy and good:

When it is delivered, not by the offending party, but rather by an unseen narrator instead.

Reaction continues to be mixed on Justin Trudeau's decision to boycott Sun News following resident madman Ezra Levant's tirade ag...

When I wrote a brief post the other day on Ezra Levant's disgusting and puerile tirade against the Trudeaus the other day, I had no i...

Five minutes was my limit for this video . And apparently Justin Trudeau has reached him limit with Sun News. His decision to boycott the...

But it will take more than an interview by George Stroumboulopoulos to convince me that Justin Trudeau has the right stuff. Nonetheless,...

No matter what the Liberal leader says or does, his popularity ranks at a consistently high level. While part of the explanation for his ...