Politics and its Discontents

Since I became eligible to vote many years ago, I have participated in every federal, provincial and municipal election that has been call...

After so many years spent in darkness, Canadians can, perhaps, be forgiven for feeling exuberantly good about themselves once again and le...

Last week I wrote a post critical of Rex Murphy's CBC opinion about how the Syrian refugee situation should be handled by Justin Trud...

Throughout my career as a high school teacher, I believed, as I still do, that education is one of the prime tools by which society can be b...

H/t Toronto Star The events of yesterday were undeniably tragic. A young man, Nathan Cirillo, died. As I noticed on a Facebook posting by...

Andrea Horwath, the current leader of the Ontario NDP, about whom I have written the odd past post , may indeed soon be facing the conseq...

But only a little bit. And only because her campaign is being criticized from within. As I noted in a recent post , Ontario NDP leader An...

The NDP exists for a reason: to express certain principles and to represent certain voters. Today it is not easy to say what the Ontario p...

What dance party is that, you ask? Why, the one being hosted by the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party whose name, it is rumoured, i...

In light of her refusal to say much about anything, a political disease she may have caught from her federal cousins, Ontario NDP leader And...

More of the white stuff has fallen, and I can ignore the importunate call of the snow shovel no longer, so I will make this brief with two...

If, like me, you are of the firm suspicion that governments regard the needs of its citizens as largely secondary to those of its corporate...

Although I will likely vote NDP federally in the next election, I am under no illusion that the party is much different from its two major c...

Whether or not you live in Ontario, you may find Martin Regg Cohn's column of some interest in illustrating the fractured and uneven ...

It is likely a truism to observe that the value burning brightest in the hearts of most political parties is the passion to get and retain p...

That's what Martin Regg Cohn, in his column this morning, calls the resentment stoked by the right-wing towards those who enjoy defin...

I have recently written some posts bemoaning the paucity of policy undergirding the campaigns of those who would become the next leade...

“We’ve been through tough times before. This is one more.” At his leadership review yesterday , that was Ontario Premier Dalton McGui...

Given that recent reports have helped to puncture the myth of job-creation benefits arising from corporate tax cuts and corporate welf...

That is the best way to assess the fact that last night, despite all of his gerrymandering, Dalton NcGuinty was decisively thwarted in ...