Politics and its Discontents

In talking to my friend Gary today, I offered the opinion that even though he is the putative next prime minister, PP will not have what it ...

While it can be convincingly argued that Justin Trudeau has done many good things during his tenure as prime minister, it is usually the sho...

Although an inveterate cynic, for about one minute yesterday I felt something odd and rare: a moment of hope. The basis for that was an inte...

Although I read and write a fair amount, I clearly am not an expert in the affairs of the world. I can merely observe, report and comment on...

I am not one of those who chortles when political parties fall into embarrassments or controversy; such events only serve as fodder for oppo...

  I need ammunition, not a ride  - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky With those six words, the Ukrainian President has put leadership u...

These days, it is hard to see the call to public office as an honourable one. The following letter sets things into their proper perspectiv...

Given the current dearth of leadership within both the Trudeau government and the rudderless Conservative Party of Canada, this one really ...

For some strange reason, this resonates with me:

Although far from a biblical scholar, I find the above line, taken from the Book of Acts, to be an apt title. Even though I am taking it o...

It is to state the obvious that all progressives long for the day that the Harper regime is ousted from office. What is not so obvious, ho...

No matter what the Liberal leader says or does, his popularity ranks at a consistently high level. While part of the explanation for his ...

As I have written in the past , poor leadership costs all of us dearly. Whether looking at local provincial, federal or international pol...

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 I wrote a post critical of the 'blame game' being played by the NDP's Andrea Horwath to excuse her lack of prog...

The other day I wrote a commentary on recently re-elected Nepean-Carlton Ontario Progressive Conservative Lisa MacLeod. In a thinly-disgu...

I'll say right off the top that I am no fan of recently re-elected Ontario Progressive Conservative Lisa MacLeod, and not just because s...

Like many who follow politics closely, I consider myself to be deeply cynical. Probably the best window into the human soul, politics is t...

Slip sliding away, slip sliding away You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip sliding away - Paul Simon I know, b...