Politics and its Discontents

The devil, they say, is in the details, but here in Ontario, the devil apparently is in the Ontario government. Outside of this province, I&...

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...

I have written previously about the deplorable government 'stewardship' of our natural resources that allows rapacious companies ...

Yesterday, I posted about the outrageous pillaging of our groundwater made possible by a government that seems oblivious to anything but it...

Buy land, they're not making it anymore . -Mark Twain The above quote, attributed to Mark Twain, is self-evident. What doesn't ap...

Over the past several years, I have become a bit of an aficionado of bourbon. Given that most of my life I have never cared for the taste o...

One of the concerns that has motivated me throughout the years I have written this blog is public accountability. Far too often, whether e...

Looking at the sidebar that lists the tags on my blog posts, I see I have written well over 100 entries on the police, most of them dealin...

Like the proverbial hot potato being passed around as rapidly as possible, the Ontario Government, true to their corporate puppet masters, ...

I always try to be completely honest in everything that I write for this blog. If I see reason for praise, I acknowledge it, sadly a rare o...

I have written extensively about my long-standing suspicions of Premier McGuinty's weak explanations for his failure to reveal the trut...

I just read the newspaper account of Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin's report on the 'secret security law' that was passed by the...

In his column in today's Toronto Star, Jim Coyle has an interesting view of Premier McGuinty's decisions to venture into online gam...

In today's Globe, Adam Radwanski offers an interesting perspective on the decision of the McGuinty government to get into online gambli...