Politics and its Discontents

Although I am not a user of medical cannabis, the current scandal (and it can only be termed a scandal) regarding dangerous and forbidden...

In a post last week, I explained the basis for my outrage over Health Minister Rona Ambrose's manufactured rant at the Supreme Court&...

Playing to her party's base, Health Minister Rona Ambrose yesterday expressed " outrage " over the Supreme Court's unanimo...

I don't want to chortle; I really don't. Chortling bespeaks a certain pettiness and vindictiveness that I would like, in my more hig...

The other day I wrote a post suggesting the need for a vigorous debate on the question of the legalization of marijuana, a drug against whi...

Even though her speech isn't completely clear, Cathy Jordan, who has been suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) for 20 years, is...

The other day I wrote a post suggesting that policy formulation in the Harper government is conducted not in the measured and studied ...

As my policy-analyst son has made abundantly clear to me, government policy formulation does not take place in a vacuum. Much time and ...