Politics and its Discontents

Ed Tanas helps shed some light on the temporary Tory leader and chief resident hypocrite (competing with Tony Clement for that title, of co...

In a post last week, I explained the basis for my outrage over Health Minister Rona Ambrose's manufactured rant at the Supreme Court&...

Playing to her party's base, Health Minister Rona Ambrose yesterday expressed " outrage " over the Supreme Court's unanimo...

On this blog I have frequently extolled the fine investigative journalism practised by The Toronto Star. Whether on issues of municipal, p...

To borrow a line from one of my favourite Shakespearean plays, Macbeth , "So fair and foul a day I have not seen." It is fair ...

Yesterday I wrote about the fact that Health Canada has 'convinced' (not ordered) Apotex to stop importing drugs from one of its ...

As I have written previously, the scandal of tainted pharmaceuticals continues, and that which should provoke outrage and demands for acc...

While "Let them swallow tainted pharmaceuticals " seems to be the motto of both Health Minister Rona Ambrose and Health Canada, ...

The Toronto Star has recently been conducting some fine i nvestigative work on tainted pharmaceuticals and the fact that Health Canada ha...

Health Minister Rona Ambrose really has no reason to smile. Last week , based on a Star Investigation, I outlined the shocking incompetenc...

During my teaching career, it was occasionally my unpleasant task to confront a student with evidence of his or her cheating; most situati...

As fashionable as it is to denigrate the mainstream media for their frequent timidity and conservatism, public knowledge about both Rob Fo...

With an election in the air, the past few days have seen the Harper regime trying to perpetrate the illusion of integrity. On Tuesday we le...