Politics and its Discontents

With the NDP imploding under the weight of idealists and ideologues, and with some calling for the resignation of Marit Stiles, the followin...

In the Book of Luke , Jesus is reported to have said the following: I tell you that ... there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner ...

Sorry. False alarm. Turns out it was the sound of Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath doing a fancy dance as she practices her routine for th...

Some might interpret it thus, in that Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath, desperate to retain her job under increasing demands for her resi...

My post yesterday on Andrea Horwath's leadership shortcomings provoked a series of thoughtful responses that I am reproducing below, ...

Andrea Horwath, the current leader of the Ontario NDP, about whom I have written the odd past post , may indeed soon be facing the conseq...

It seems I , Martin Regg Cohn and Cheri DiNovo aren't the only ones to take issue with Andrea Horwath's leadership these days: R...

But only a little bit. And only because her campaign is being criticized from within. As I noted in a recent post , Ontario NDP leader An...

The other day, while watching some reactions to the Ontario Throne Speech, I couldn't help but note a truculent and smug Andrea Horwath,...

The fact that I experienced physical and verbal abuse at the hands of my teachers during my Catholic education probably has a lot to do wi...

The NDP exists for a reason: to express certain principles and to represent certain voters. Today it is not easy to say what the Ontario p...

I imagine that many people who follow politics closely do so in the belief that it is one of the few arenas that offers the possibility of...

That is the conclusion Rick Salutin recently came to in a column entitled Andrea Horwath's right-wing populism . Describing her as ...

Perhaps NDP leader Andrea Horwath will be, for forcing an unnecessary Ontario election, if the results of a new Forum Research Poll hold ...

But unfortunately, the politically timid ( opportunistic ?) leader of the Ontario NDP, Andrea Horwath, doesn't really have much to say...

A frequent contributor of commentary, ThinkingManNeil , responding to my post earlier today, left an insightful and incisive analysis of ...

Sorry for the provincialism of some of my recent posts, but I can't quite ignore political hypocrisy on any level. Three recent entries ...

What dance party is that, you ask? Why, the one being hosted by the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party whose name, it is rumoured, i...

In light of her refusal to say much about anything, a political disease she may have caught from her federal cousins, Ontario NDP leader And...

Were I a gifted artist (or any kind of artist, for that matter) I would draw Andrea Horwath in a two-panel caricature. In the first panel,...