Politics and its Discontents

Last week I wrote a post about the fraught fund-raising letter sent out by Conservative Party director of political operations Fred DeLor...

Canadians want a vision for the future. Canadians know we're not going in the right direction. A lot of Canadians are dismayed at ...

Given the level of odium in which the public holds politicians, the title of this post probably seems redundant. However, it is also ap...

One of the few journalists today holding the Harper regime to public account, Lawrence Martin, has a very interesting assessment of yesterd...

That is the description that Lawrence Martin applies to the Harper government in his latest column for iPolitics as he reflects on the ...

The other day I wrote a post about detecting patterns in political behaviour, opining that most media spend a disproportionate amount of th...

Despite the near-hysterical reaction of certain CBC broadcasters to the comments made last week by Thomas Mulcair about how tarsands d...

If you're like me, you harbour a certain fascination with Stephen Harper. Never before has there been a Prime Minister who so publicly d...

Both Lawrence Martin and Linda McQuaig have columns well-worth reading today on government misdeeds both present and past. McQuaig sugge...

While I stand by my comments about The Globe and Mail in my last post , the paper does have one real asset in the person of Lawrence Martin....

I have long believed that a good part of the Conservative strategy to become Canada's natural governing party rests on a strategy of di...

Lawrence martin, in a piece called Has the fourth estate lost its tenacity? wonders whether it is the failure to offer much followup on sto...

Writing at i.Politics.ca, Lawrence Martin, author of Harperland, (a revealing look at the Prime Minister and his contempt for just about eve...

In reading Lawrence Martin's Harperland, I was struck by how many times Prime Minister Harper and his operatives have had their politica...

In today's online Globe, Lawrence Martin offers a lacerating analysis of the departure of what he calls “the ethcially upright” (Chuck ...

While I am a reasonably fast reader, especially when it comes to fiction, I sometimes have to slow down and digest small chunks of non-fict...

I am currently reading Lawrence Martin's book Harperland , which anecdotally confirms some of our worst fears and suspicions about Steph...