Politics and its Discontents

That's how impassioned tech entrepreneur Frederick Ghahramani describes Bill C-51 in this interview with Power and Politics' Rosema...

I am prefacing this by reproducing a comment I made 0n kirbycairo's post, A Dark Hour Upon Us . Kirby, one of our top-shelf bloggers, al...

Of course, I am using the word narrative quite euphemistically here.

Yesterday, Owen at Northern Reflections wrote a post on Michael Chong, one of the few members of Stephen Harper's caucus with real int...

My money is on environment watchdog Julie Gelfand. Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq's parliamentary assistant, Colin Carrie? Not so m...

That must be the reason that people like Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and her parliamentary secretary Jeff Watson haven't yet had time...

Like many others, I have been trying to fathom how Nigel Wright has escaped without charges for the cheque he wrote to Mike Duffy, while the...

I certainly hope so:

At least that might seem to be a reasonable inference to draw given people's increasing capacity not to answer questions that make them ...

The tale of Eve Adams gets increasingly melodramatic , and increasingly reminiscent of Helena Guergis . That she will suffer Helena's po...

Today's blog entry is really a video one, based on the testimony yesterday of Harry Neufeld, the elections expert and former B.C. Chief ...

So says Andrew Reynolds, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of 18 professors from around the wo...

Yasmin Dawood is one of 160 professors from across Canada behind an open letter to the government asking for major revisions to the 'Fa...

If you are a member or supporter of the Harper regime, who is Thee ? The list is long, but let's start with environmental organization...

If you start the following video at about the 5:30 mark, you will hear a surprising answer from Conservative MP Braid Braid when asked by E...

If you start at about the 5 minute mark, you will witness Harper's pet parrot Pierre, through endless repetition, parody a Member of Par...

Like the good yeo(wo)man she is, Ms Leitch never deviates from the Harper regime script as she 'answers' Evan Solomon's quest...

See if you can detect even a modicum of it in Kellie Leitch, who starts talking at about the 9-minute mark of this video dealing with the ma...

As I had predicted in an earlier blog entry , propagandist and cognitive prestidigitator extraordinaire Laurie Hawn, employing a tactic wort...

I sometimes think that those of us who write blogs, being the passionate political followers that we are, read more into things than are rea...