Politics and its Discontents

While I have written extensively on Omar Khadr in the past , the former child combatant has not been much in the news of late, and so I as...

There are many labels one could affix to the Conservative Party of Canada: opportunistic, divisive, demagogic, dishonest and principleless...

The outrage is once again stoked by Omar Khadr, but, as I wrote the other day, it is Peter Kent's shameful performance that is earnin...

Despite the impotent snorting and sputtering of the likes of Andrew Sheer and his fellow travellers, the facts about the apology and comp...

In a democracy, it is hardly expected that we will all be of one accord on anything. Opinion and debate are the lifeblood of a healthy and...

Whenever I see Omar Khadr, I never fail to be impressed by his thoughtful reflectiveness. Despite the fact that there is a rabid element in ...

If you saw last night's documentary on Omar Khadr, like me, perhaps you came away feeling some awe at the remarkable resilience of the h...

The above is the title of a documentary to be broadcast tonight at 9 p.m. on the CBC's main network. Here is a brief excerpt: Given ...

The Harper vendetta against Omar Khadr has suffered another defeat : The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that Omar Khadr, the form...

Well, as a new week dawns I find that I am not quite ready to turn to new topics, as Omar Khadr is still very much in the news. For a good r...

Without doubt, some readers will be wearying of my seeming obsession with Omar Khadr. A good part of my interest in him over the past few ...

H/t The Toronto Star For progressives, it has been a very good week. For Stephen Harper and his adherents, not so much. First, there wa...

Watching Omar Khadr's media scrum last night, it became obvious why the Harper regime fought so hard, first, to deny media access to hi...

Denis Edney's stinging rebuke of Stephen Harper and his regime's contemptuous treatment of Omar Khadr over the years will resonate ...

One of the consequences of being a longtime follower of politics is the development of a cynical perspective on life, one that recognizes ...

As I have written elsewhere on this blog, I am convinced that humans (along with other primates) have an innate sense of fairness, one tha...

The closer we come to an election, the more strident and McCarthyesque the Harper regime is becoming over 'radical Islam.' There i...

Hate campaign, that is. True to form, the Harper regime wasted no time in denouncing the decision to release Omar Khadr on bail pending his...

For those who follow such things, I think it is well-known that when a Canadian runs into problems while abroad, the statement "Canada...

Things continue to go from bad to worse on the judicial front for the Harper regime. Funny how those pesky laws get in the way of government...