Politics and its Discontents

As a retired English teacher and a lifelong lover of books, I have always been fascinated by words, both what they actually mean and h...

On this Easter Sunday, when many turn their thoughts from the secular to the sacred, it is perhaps a propitious time to remember that the el...

Today's Star editorial offers a gloomy but apparently realistic assessment of the direction Canada's manufacturing is headed in. A...

The Globe and Mail has an online story reporting Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan's adamant opposition to any consideration of a ...

I just made this posting on my other blog , but thought it might be of interest to some readers of this blog, as it really deals with the po...

Dalton McGuinty, the Ontario Premier who, as I mentioned in previous posts, will not be receiving my support in the October election over hi...

I have already written extensively about the G20 police abuses of our Charter Rights and have cited the McGuinty Government's collusion...

It is hardly surprising that Tim Hudak, leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, is keeping silent even when conservative eleme...

While I have believed in the power of the written word my entire life, sometimes images are a more potent way to convey the outrages that fr...

Now that we are subscribing to the Toronto Star, I have the luxury of lingering over the paper as I finish my morning coffee. Given the man...

I have long been a supporter of alternative forms of energy. While the geography is not always ideal, I felt for a long time that the Ontar...

I've been writing lately about the declining political fortunes of the Ontario Liberal Government. Another reason for the Premier to wo...

One of the biggest pitfalls in striving to practice critical thinking is the risk of either appearing to be, or actually being, a bit parano...

Although the last person I would like to see leading Ontario is Jim Hudak, a protege and clone of former Ontario Premier Mike Harris, accord...