Politics and its Discontents

Since I am currently preoccupied with rebuilding a small part of our deck (unskilled non-trades person that I am, the work is proceeding slo...

....knowing that Mr. Harper's fight against ISIS hasn't distracted him from an even greater threat to all that is holy and good:

In his latest, Rick Mercer turns his acerbic wit on the theft of copyright being engineered by the Harper regime to facilitate its campaign...

That is the lacerating assessment offered by CTV's Don Martin as he editorializes about the impending theft of copyrighted material engi...

Lordy, I see young Tim Hudak is hurling those sticks and stones again. Won't that boy ever try acting like a grown man?

Laurie Hawn, Alberta Brent Rathgeber, Alberta Kevin Sorenson, Alberta Mike Allen, New Brunswick Joe Daniel, Ontario Larry Miller, O...

Since I arose uncharacteristically late this morning, I am still working on today's post. In the interim, I take the liberty of reprod...

I suspect only the party faithful and the 'true-believers' would find these pictures objectionable:

While the word commit has several meanings, when it is used without the preposition 'to' (as in, He is committed to her cause ), it...

These Star readers seem to think so: Tories attack Trudeau on first day in new job, April 16 It is fair to criticize opposing politic...

I have written about Allan Gregg on this blog before ; probably his most noteworthy recent contribution to political discourse came in his...

Oh, I do so savor The Toronto Star.

For those as weary of political attack ads as I am, The Star's Carol Goar has an interesting column in today's edition . Entitled...

The latest attack ad , this one against newly-appointed Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau, serves as a timely reminder of the Harper gov...

I suspect many will agree that this ad says more about the Conservative Party behind it than it does about its subject: UPDATE: This St...

Many thanks to Montreal Simon , who created this trenchant attack ad:

Earlier this week, Gerry Nichols, self-described on his website as One of Canada's Top Five Political Minds , wrote an opinion piece in ...

While it is probably impossible to define the soul of a nation, one aspect of the Canadian psyche must surely be a generosity of spirit and ...

The litany of abuses, even crimes, against democracy committed by the Harper government is indeed long . Probably the gravest damage done by...