Politics and its Discontents

Whenever our next election rolls around, I'll be ready - ready not to vote for the Conservatives. Ready not to vote for the Liberals. By...

To new and long-term readers, the best of the season.  H/t Greg Perry And this warning seems appropriate for the times in which we live: Su...

My three-year-old granddaughter has developed a fondness for jigsaw puzzles, usually of the 48-piece variety designated for children. Given ...

I have written previously   about Pierre Poilievre's fondness for aphorisms, phrases that encapsulate a simplistic solution to complex p...

When the next federal election comes, there are those who will vote with a certitude we all should be wary of. Because they are sick of Just...

No doubt the PP crowd on the West Coast is all abuzz over the fact that they will soon  enjoy his presence as part of his Axe The Tax tour. ...

 On the 'contradictory' relationship PP has with corporate lobbyists: H/t  trapdinawrpool.bsky.social

In a time when reflexive rather than reflective responses are elicited by some of our politicians, a little food for thought from Patrick Co...

 ... you will get this, the latest from Moudakis.

 What's good for the silly goose should be good for the gander, eh?

 As Kermit the Frog said, it's not easy being green. H/t Dean Blundell

Fate can be cruel. It is not unheard of to be going about, minding one's own business, when a person of unknown provenance accosts you a...

    Well, it appears Pierre Poilievre, that would-be master disinformation-trafficker, has found his true soulmate in another man-child, Elo...

  When I was a teacher, it used to bother me to no end that it only took one or two ignorant, badly-behaved kids to spoil the atmosphere and...

  You have probably heard all about PP courting the incels, a profoundly misogynistic conglomeration of sad sacks who hate women because the...

By now you have probably heard about Pierre Poilievre's outrage over an apparent threat against his wife, Anaida. The threat, made by Je...

Wasn't Socrates executed for corrupting the youth? Courting a child wearing Minnie Mouse ears sets my 'Spidey sense' tingling. H...

With the NDP hinting that their pact supporting the Liberals until 2025 could be under strain , a timely reminder from de Adder about the a...

While political hypocrisy is hardly rare, in my view Pierre Poilievre 'elevates' it to an entirely new level - new at least in Canad...