Politics and its Discontents

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Well, the Globe and Mail is up to its usual agenda of promoting the neocon vision. Not content to let Canadians ruminate on ideas unimpede...

It is to be hoped that no one was near the proboscis of Jason Clemens, Executive Vice President of the right-wing Fraser Institute, when he ...

The science on the theory of climate change is not settled. There is a powerful, scientific consensus that anthropogenic or man-made clim...

For many decades Noam Chomsky has been fearlessly fighting for truth. His capacity for incisive critical thinking and unwillingness to submi...

The question of minimum wage has been very much a topic of discussion in alternative media of late, and I have written a few posts about t...

Some days, corporate megaliths just can't catch a break : P.S. I could only get this video to play in Internet Explorer, not Chrome.

Continuing with the theme of yesterday's post , I am taking the liberty of reproducing some letters that appear in today's Star o...

In the various incarnations that the series Star Trek has enjoyed, The Next Generation was my favorite. Starring the well-known Shakespear...

I have long believed it is not so much the 'genius' of the extreme right as it is their financial backing that makes them power...

What they need is people like CNN's Soledad O'Brien, who refuses to be cowed by right-wing bullies like John Sununu. Peter Mansb...

Deeply affronted, perhaps even frightened by the recent change to the Ontario budget that will impose an increase of 2% on the income ...

Over the past several years, most notably since the ascension to power of the Harper regime, taxation, especially the concept of progressive...