Politics and its Discontents

I have thus far avoided writing about Jim Flaherty's passing for a very simple reason; it is difficult, if not impossible to keep sepa...

I have been a little under the weather the last two days, an illness that curiously began shortly after I had an unsettling thought abou...

Yesterday I wrote an entry offering my opinion on why Ontarians are not embracing Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak as the economi...

I realize that the subject of Ontario politics is likely of little interest to those residing outside of the province. Yet I can't help...

I think we are all aware, at least on an intellectual level, that the gift of a relatively long life comes at a cost: physical and somet...

As a survivor of the Mike Harris years in Ontario, I have very vivid memories of what was undoubtedly the most mean-spirited and incompetent...