Politics and its Discontents

One of the purported panaceas for electoral disaffection, subscribed to by many, is some form of proportional representation, a subject up...

As a retiree, I occasionally think that maybe I have too much time on my hands - too much time to follow politics, especially its more sor...

Watch below as reputed drug dealer Councillor Doug Ford thuggishly engages in some sanctimonious and hypocritical grandstanding in 'defe...

We are in Edmonton right now, and when people ask us where we are from, I mention our community as being about 70 kilometers from Toronto;...

Well aware that the universe does not revolve around the City of Toronto, which is within an hour's drive of my abode, I rarely write po...

It has been said that to be a great leader, a person has to have a great vision. I'll let you decide where Toronto May Rob Ford fit...

That is the phrase Star columnist Royson James uses to describe Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Even if you live nowhere near the city, his analy...

One the one hand, I am reluctant to use this blog to address a local as opposed to a provincial or national issue. On the other hand, howev...