Politics and its Discontents

The triumphalism of capitalism can sometimes be hard to take. Platitudes such as "A rising tide lifts all boats" abound, rarely ...

From the print edition of the Toronto Star comes this response to a recent column by Linda McQuaig, a response that strikes me as eminent...

The title for this post I took from the online flurry of letters that brought out the usual voices in The Star. I will reproduce a number...

Yesterday, KirbyCairo wrote another of his thought-provoking posts, this one on the current plight of the federal NDP and its search for ...

I was going to write about Linda McQuaig's honest assertion that much of the tarsands' oil will have to be left in the ground if Ca...

Yesterday I wrote about a fund-raising plea that the Harper machine has sent out to its true believers with deep pockets; the missive str...

For those interested in a broader public policy discussion than has been permitted by our political 'leaders' thus far, the NDP no...

Opening my Toronto Star this morning, I was delighted to learn that journalist and author Linda McQuaig , who has figured fairly prominen...

For me, one of the most disappointing aspects of the media coverage of the Alberta floods has been the relative dearth of commentary linki...

I often think of the famous line from the New Testament in which Jesus says "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a need...

Fanned by a corporate-dominated media, it is hardly a surprise that anti-union sentiment seems to be rampant today. Everywhere we look,...

Although her views are not radically different from those found at alternative news sites such as The Raw Story , Truthdig or Alternet...

There are some columnists whose work I am loathe to miss. For example, over at the Globe, unlike some people I could name , Lawrence...

I have long believed it is not so much the 'genius' of the extreme right as it is their financial backing that makes them power...

A few months ago, when we were seeing mid-summer temperatures during early spring, I remember Tom Brown, the CTV weatherman, looking gr...

I often think that governments, especially our current federal one, hold the people they 'serve' in absolute contempt, regarding ...

In case you missed it, today's Star has Linda McQuaig's latest column in which she opines on the Harper austerity program, juxtapos...

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

Drawing comparisons between Republican animus toward labour and Harper government policies that permit the kind of outrageous corporate beha...

In yesterday's post , I railed against the hypocrisy of the Harperites in their efforts to convince us to boycott Chiquita banana over t...