Politics and its Discontents

Actually, it is much closer than that, hiding in plain sight.

It was Henry David Thoreau who said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.&...

As noted the other day , the United States or, as I like to call it, Trump's Amerika, no longer even bothers to conceal its contempt f...

By almost any metric, the United States is a rogue nation. The depth of its depraved thuggery was recently made evident to the world: A...

When (s)he is a 'replacement worker'. I have always loved the word 'scab'. A fitting description of strikebreakers, it is ...

While Part 1 dealt with the neoliberal agenda influencing Bill Morneau's retraction of his pharmacare promise, today's post deals...

Star readers can spot a corrupt policy process when they see one, an acuity they make known as they opine on Bill Morneau's pharmacar...

OCDSB Trustees spoke out loud & clear against this distribution. Staff have responded by pulling it. — Theresa Kavanagh (@ironmaamt) Ja...

Selling off public assets that yield steady and lucrative revenue streams is rarely a good idea. In Ontario, Kathleen Wynne did just that ...

Yesterday's post dealt with the announcement that a degree of self-regulation is to be conferred on the airline industry by the Trude...

Many will recall that during the Harper era, our country moved toward greater self-regulation in various industries, often with disastrous...

While it is difficult in some ways to attribute anything resembling a method to the madness of the American Moron-in-Chief, it would be wr...

Burying their heads in rapidly disappearing sand is something of a national characteristic of Americans when it comes to climate change. H...

I recently published a guest post by BM entitled, The Creep Of Corporatism . In a followup, he has written something that I think many wi...

Responding to my post on the secret study conducted by the Trudeau government on privatizing our major airports to raise much-needed cash...

In response to yesterday's post on Justin Trudeau, frequent contributor Pamela MacNeil left the following response, which I am taking...

This from today's Letters To The Editor , to which I have nothing to add: Re: Two richest men as wealthy as poorest 30 per cent, Jan....

It would seem that Star reader Douglas Porter of Peterborough sees with unusual clarity what so many prefer to ignore: It seems that man...

While the Gong Show unfolding in the U.S. will likely continue to preoccupy a great many of us in the weeks, months and years to come, we ...

If ever there was ever any doubt about the neoliberal agenda being pursued by our 'new' government, Finance Minister Bill Morneau...