Politics and its Discontents

I just read Owen's blog , which today talks about the wily Trump's real purpose behind his plan to reduce the corporate tax rate t...

Media reports that Donald Trump is now railing against NBC Nightly News are not really surprising. After all, the truth can hurt. The netw...

While Canadians by and large seem content to sleep through the entire CETA negotiations, uttering nary an objection to a deal that will seve...

Over at Northern Reflections today, Owen has a timely reminder via Henry Giroux of what Donald Trump really stands for: fascism, hatred, b...

Yesterday's post dealt with the egregious hypocrisy of Canada's condemnation of Saudi Arabia's recent spate of executions whi...

Yesterday I attended a funeral service for the father of my good friend and former colleague, John. Although I never met John's father, ...

Yesterday, Owen at Northern Reflections wrote a post on Michael Chong, one of the few members of Stephen Harper's caucus with real int...

As I have written in the past , poor leadership costs all of us dearly. Whether looking at local provincial, federal or international pol...

Last week, Owen wrote a post he entitled Corrupting Civil Society , a reflection on the Harper war on non-profits that stand in opposition...

Yesterday I wrote about a fund-raising plea that the Harper machine has sent out to its true believers with deep pockets; the missive str...

Toronto Star columnist Heather Mallick has a lacerating assessment this morning of the political landscape we now inhabit, thanks to the ...

I came upon this excerpt of a much longer poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Owen's blog this morning in his Daily Literary Quote s...

With so many things of note to comment on, today is one of those days when, if I had the time, I suspect I would spend most of the day wri...

In a world rife with the environmental, economic and social consequences of unfettered capitalism, the term 'industry self-regulati...

Yesterday, over at Northern Reflections , Owen Gray wrote a post entitled A Lost Generation , a reflection on the discouraging prospect...