Politics and its Discontents

In one of his most significant works, Death of the Liberal Class , Chris Hedges argues that the traditional bulwarks against corporate power...

Having the underpinnings of our daily lives so radically altered is immensely unsettling. The things we have always taken for granted, be ...

I haven't been writing much these days, in part due to a stubborn bug I've been battling, and in part because I often wonder if th...

In his column today , Rick Salutin offers a withering assessment of the NDP that I fear is all too accurate. In a phrase, what most ails t...

To be sure, the elevation of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to government redounds to everyone's shame. Led by a buffoo...

In his column the other day, Rick Salutin wrote a stout defence of taxes, making it very clear that for him and many others, the word and...

Most people who have lived in this country for any amount of time, I suspect, would agree that Canada is the best place in the world to be ...

Where I live, the summer has been, with just the occasional respite, unbearably hot. It has certainly interfered with one of my seasonal p...

While I have written about the importance of critical thinking many times on this blog, I have always considered it an ideal, a destination...

I am dismayed over the general collective amnesia that has once more taken hold of political leaders and the public over the latest so-cal...

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

That is the conclusion Rick Salutin recently came to in a column entitled Andrea Horwath's right-wing populism . Describing her as ...

Like many of the commentators and bloggers whom I read, I regularly feel a deep frustration over the passivity of people. No matter what t...

The Harper cabal's contempt for the environment, science, transparency, and knowledge in general has become the stuff of dark legend, ...

You might want to take a moment to read Rick Salutin's thoughts on the implications of living in a country where environmentalists an...

There is little doubt in my mind that the economic chaos defining the lives of millions of people is intentional, not just so their labour...

We are in Edmonton right now, and when people ask us where we are from, I mention our community as being about 70 kilometers from Toronto;...

Like the dotty uncle no one wants to invite to family dinners anymore because of his wildly inappropriate comments, Natural Resources Mini...

I admit that I stopped being a regular viewer of the CBC years ago; I think the catalyst for my disaffection was its transparent policy of...

The title of my post today, taken from Act Five of Shakespeare's Hamlet, occurs in a graveyard. Hamlet begins musing on what may be...