Politics and its Discontents

Although the Toronto Star is my newspaper of choice, there are times when I strongly disagree with its content. Recently, its most prolifi...

In many ways it is regrettable that the police apparently are not Spiderman fans. If they were, perhaps they would understand an early and p...

My son alerted me to this video from 1981. After watching it, be sure to read Rosie DiManno's observations about workplace leave-taking...

I sometimes wonder about whether the term progressive calls up some kind of a stereotype. When people think of progressives, do they have...

Like a bloated, aging and wounded lion who realizes his hold over his pride is at an end, Conrad Black is lashing out. Still licking his w...

I suspect if teachers were to be completely completely honest, almost all would admit that at some point in their careers they felt like las...

It was a comment yesterday that The Mound of Sound (a.k.a. The Disaffected Lib ) made in response to a cartoon I posted depicting the much...

While the title of this post may seem a bit of a tautology, since the power of police on the streets is obvious, there are other arenas wher...

I believe the sterotype is that as we get older, our views become more entrenched and conservative. In my own life, I have found the opposit...

While I can't promise this will be my last post on Sammy Yatim, I do want to direct you to Rosie DiManno's column and a few commen...

Rarely at a loss for words, I find myself in that state as I think about Sammy Yatim, the 18-year-old killed just after midnight Saturday...

Although the political abuse of power is endemic in this country, especially at the federal level, it is sadly not the only one in which i...

For those who think all journalists have lost their bite, I suggest they read Rosie DiManno's column today as she writes disdainfully o...

Just a short thought for today. Although I am now at the stage of life where I have more years behind me than I have ahead, and have been a...

Rosie DiManno has a good column in today's Star on the public's role in bringing about the charge of assault with a weapon against ...