Politics and its Discontents

When you are young, it is easy to find heroes, people whose daring exploits elicit awe and wonder. When I was a kid, Superman was my comi...

Hot on the heels of the news that Justin's folly will now cost taxpayers at least another $1.9 billion comes widespread acknowledgement...

Kinder Morgan couldn't have a better friend than Justin Trudeau: Texas-based Kinder Morgan made a seven-fold return on the sale of i...

While many will be fixated on the latest soap-opera installments that politics now regularly yields, such as the outrageous behaviour of Tru...

Because it is 2018, instead of buying leaky pipelines on the taxpayer's dime, maybe you should enter the modern era and emulate China:

Perhaps he is counting on a fawning international press and a somnolent Canadian public. Perhaps he is counting on those who put partisan ...

This time, it is in front of the constituency of Trudeau's Justice Minister and Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould:

Disingenuous, Dishonest, Cynical. Calculating. Choose any or all of those adjectives, and you will have an apt assessment of Justin Trudea...

Clearly, Mr. Trudeau's "sunny ways" do not dazzle everyone.

While Canadians are rightfully applauding the retaliatory tariffs the Trudeau government will be imposing on the United States, my concern...

Enjoy (or not, depending upon your political/philosophical/environmental orientations): Meanwhile, Star letter-writers offer some much-...

I hope Justin Trudeau has a vivid imagination and total recall. That way, he can revisit the fall of 2015, depicted above, a time, you may...

If you know anything about the climate-change peril within which the world lives, you will see this announcement by Justin Trudeau and hi...

Some days, writing this blog is quite easy, as I only have to turn to the letters page of my newspaper to aggregate the well-considered t...

As the video included in yesterday's post shows, Justin Trudeau likes to defend the twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline as in ...

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...

Funny about campaign promises. Most people take them with a large grain of salt, yet once in awhile, large segments of us are drawn in by ...

In a post yesterday, The Mound offered a searing assessment of Justin Trudeau's abject failure on the climate-change file. Only the m...

That would be the one Justin Trudeau wraps himself in with such rectitude whenever he attempts to convince the public of his climate-chang...

While Justin Trudeau will undoubtedly be praised by some for his polite reaction to these activists, his perfunctory response tells all y...