Politics and its Discontents

H/t Occupy Canada

The steps of Peter Mansbridge and Rex Murphy, I imagine, have a bit of a spring today, content in the knowledge that they are no longer outl...

Unlike the kind of faux journalism that the CBC's most reverent chief correspondent, Peter Mansbridge, has perfected , real journalism...

One of the few bright spots on that erstwhile formidable newspaper, The Globe and Mail, is television columnist John Doyle. His trenchant ...

Weakly constituted as I am when it comes to tolerating disingenuous and dishonest political theatre, I was unable to watch the Chief Prevari...

The other day I posted a report on Peter Mansbridge speaking out against cuts to the CBC and the unprecedented secrecy that pervades pub...

Readers of this blog will know that I am a frequent critic of both the CBC and Peter Mansbridge. Both 'institutions,' in my view,...

As reported by Andrew Mitrovica on iPolitiics , the CBC ombudsman, Esther Enkin, has finally reached her decision on the many conflict of ...

While I and others have written about Rex Murphy's close relationship to the oil industry , a relationship that appears to be in direc...

The comments of guest panelist Althia Raj, from The Huffington Post, are worth the price of admission here as she declares, in no uncertain ...

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary offers the following definition of obfuscate: to make obscure; to confuse . As an intransitive verb, ...

There, Pam Wallin said it , and like all politicians who trot out what has become but a tired platitude, she would now like all of us to tun...

I admit that I stopped being a regular viewer of the CBC years ago; I think the catalyst for my disaffection was its transparent policy of...

Despite the near-hysterical reaction of certain CBC broadcasters to the comments made last week by Thomas Mulcair about how tarsands d...

With the polls revealing that the NDP, under leader Thomas Mulcair, is enjoying 34% of popular support while the Harper Conservatives langu...

While the CBC's Peter Mansbridge may often pronounce ponderously and authoritatively on issues, there is another source of information t...

In my younger days, I was quite a devotee of late-night television, my allegiance owed almost exclusively to The Tonight Show starring, as t...