Politics and its Discontents

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...

There are two pieces on the Occupy Toronto situation that are worth reading in today's paper. The first is the editorial in the Toronto ...

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...

There are many Canadians, most prominently Prime Minister Harper , who dismiss the Occupy Movement as having little or no relevance for Cana...

For those who have not yet read Chris Hedges' Death of the Liberal Class , his latest essay on truthdig, entitled A Movement Too Big to ...

In my days as a high school English teacher, one of my favourite books to teach was John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, the story of dis...

Well, I had the opportunity to attend the Occupy Toronto march to St. James Park, and I was impressed by the age range of those in attendan...