Politics and its Discontents

I have reached a point in my life where I hold out little hope for our collective future. It is one of the reasons I post less frequentl...

It always astounds me that more people are not interested in politics. Far too many dismiss it as an arcane pursuit that has no relevance ...

The other day I wrote a post on John Cruickshank's TED Talk about the low level of political participation among young citizens. His ...

I have always thought it ironic that in this age of interconnectedness, when we have almost unlimited sources of information at our disposal...

I am still working on my flooring, and as someone to whom the term handyman has little application, I am working very slowly. Therefore, i...

One of the purported panaceas for electoral disaffection, subscribed to by many, is some form of proportional representation, a subject up...

Substitute parliamentary democracy for republic and Bill Maher's words are a stinging indictment of apathetic Canadians.

Here is a letter from today's Star that puts responsibility for the proliferating problem of deceitful, inept, corrupt and demagogic...

Being on holiday has induced in me a certain mental torpor, so please forgive me if this post states the obvious. Those of us who write po...

Thanks to LeDaro's link , I was able to catch up on the At Issues panel that I missed on Thursday night. While the discussion revolved ...