Politics and its Discontents

Watch the following, and you will understand.

Upon the re-election of Naheed Nenshi, the neoliberals have a message for Canadians who haven't gotten with the program: Not everyone...

I admit that at one time, I worshiped at the altar of the NHL, this during the time of the Original Six. But then something happened. I gr...

If you read my post from yesterday, you will know who Nick Shcherban is. Watch the following brief video, and ask yourself this: Have you ev...

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? - W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming The man pict...

Ed Finn has a blog entry at rabble.ca that I highly recommend. His thesis can roughly be summarized in this excerpt: The glue that holds...

Given that I have no background in economics, I will leave it to more finely-tuned minds to debate the merits of yesterday's federal b...

A few days ago I posted a letter by Star reader Cathy Allen in which she discussed what it would take for her to regain her pride as a Ca...

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 Part 1, I wrote about the lethal consequences for many who have worked at GE Peterborough. A toxic workplace that has resulted in crip...

The Toronto Star has run a heartbreaking series, very well-worth reading, on the fate of many of the employees of Peterborough's GE pla...

In a recent post well-worth reading, The Mound reflected on the decline of support for liberal democracy. Today, Star readers respond to...

When one thinks deeply about neoliberalism, one conjures up the face of greed, rapacity and monetary narcissism. Not at all a pretty face....

This probably says all we need to know about neoliberalism. Should you have the stomach for it, you can read more here .

Canadians, along with the West in general, have been fed a neoliberal diet of propaganda and policy for so long that far too many have suc...

Yesterday morning, I read a piece by Martin Regg Cohn on the impending sale of Ontario's Hydro One. When it is completed, 60% of our ...

Although far from a biblical scholar, I find the above line, taken from the Book of Acts, to be an apt title. Even though I am taking it o...

This is one of those days when I haven't felt like writing anything. And George Orwell said just about everything better, anyway. H/t...

If you have as low an opinion of the CBC's disgraced chief business correspondent, Amanda Lang, as I do , watch the following video. I t...

His is a quiet eloquence that speaks far louder than all the braying our political 'leaders' engage in with abandon. Harry Smith, ab...