Politics and its Discontents

As is so frequently the case, The Star's Rick Salutin has written a thoughtful and original piece , this time on some of the factors inv...

Echoing the thesis from his book, Death of the Liberal Class , a work that excoriated traditional liberal institutions for their failure to...

Never an advocate of violence, I have been recently thinking of the power of its opposite, non-violence or passive resistance, especially in...

I wrote the other day that I normally refrain from excerpting large chunks of text from other sources, but here I go again, this time a rep...

Ever the arbiter of all things significant, it is hardly surprising that in its latest editorial , The Globe and Mail has the arrogance to a...

The following can be found on the UC - Davis website, a followup to the brave letter written by untenured Assistant Professor Nathan Brown...

That's the title of a searing and insightful analysis by Glenn Greenwald as he examines both the mentality and the effects, both intend...

In this video, a group of college students are huddled on the ground in a defensive position at UC Davis on November 18. An officer, later i...

Gene Robinson, the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, addresses...

Thee are many who assert that the Occupy Movement has no relevance in Canada because we have a social safety net and other measures that pro...

Emboldened and enraged by the demagogic politics that substitute for reasoned discussion in the United States, an unemployed man is shown mi...

While some may wonder about the practical utility of the Occupy Movement and where it is headed, I believe that in its current form, its chi...

Many thanks to Roxy Katt for her post and link to a story and video showing Seattle Police arresting a woman for opening up an umbrella whi...

Robert Hackett, a professor in the school of communication at Simon Fraser University and a research associate at the Canadian Centre for Po...