Politics and its Discontents

I think Rick Mercer speaks for many of us in this 'rant.'

As always, the letters from Star readers do not disappoint: I am really finding it difficult to empathize with businesses like Tim Horto...

In an op-ed piece the other day, Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, wrote of the economic Armageddo...

That fundamental truth is grasped by two small-scale entrepreneurs , much to the shame of much larger entities like Tim Hortons which, as w...

In response to my post yesterday about CBC bias in its reporting on Ontario's minimum wage increase, the Mound wrote a detailed comme...

I will be the first to admit that I get only modest amounts of my news from television. However, due to the severe cold we have been exper...

This year, The Star has been running an Atkinson Series entitled The New Newsroom , which looks at both the challenges and the possibiliti...

Their protests notwithstanding, the truth is that raising the minimum wage is good for business . And it isn't just the behemoths depi...

In the Book of Luke , Jesus is reported to have said the following: I tell you that ... there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner ...

The opportunity to report about something positive in the kind of blog I write is rare. For example, while reports abound of corporate the...

Despite the fact that I think and write a great deal about the disparities and inequities that plague our society, I am almost embarrassed...

But unfortunately, the politically timid ( opportunistic ?) leader of the Ontario NDP, Andrea Horwath, doesn't really have much to say...

Were I a gifted artist (or any kind of artist, for that matter) I would draw Andrea Horwath in a two-panel caricature. In the first panel,...

There has been very much a predictable reaction from business to the Wynne government's decision to raise the Ontario minimum wage to $...

We Canadians talk a good game. We want our unemployed to be able to find jobs, we want those with the need to be able to readily access th...