Politics and its Discontents

  “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ” ...

By the newspaper's account , Catherine Finn was a lively, passionate and engaged woman. I think I would have liked her, as would many ...

Weakly constituted as I am when it comes to tolerating disingenuous and dishonest political theatre, I was unable to watch the Chief Prevari...

Last evening I watched a PBS special on the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Archival footage spanning over 50 years of the group and their...

H/t Don Gravelle

Veteran journalist and current national affairs columnist for iPolitics, Michael Harris, has just had his new book on Stephen Harper publi...

That paraphrase of a famous line from the Bible perhaps sums up the pitiable plight of Stephen Harper, gallant man of the world and fearle...

An editorial cartoonist captures a Heritage Moment nicely:

Star reader David Buckna , of Kelowna, B.C., offers a searing and accurate assessment of our latest session of Parliament: Federal MPs ...

What was once Canada the cool, the country a 1991 Economist cover story called the "post-modern nation-state", has now devolved...

That's the highest praise I can think to extend to young Justin Trudeau, who many see as the best hope of unseating Mr. Harper in 2015...

I'd like to make it clear at the start of this post that I have by no means been converted to the belief that Justin Trudeau would be ...

Despite the misspelling in the caption, I rather like this cartoon , probably for obvious reasons. As well, you may enjoy these letters ...

I assume this requires no commentary from me: H/t janfromthebruce

Ask them for their stand on the indefensible export of asbestos .

H/t Stephen Lautens

If you're like me, you harbour a certain fascination with Stephen Harper. Never before has there been a Prime Minister who so publicly d...

While the purpose of this Harper-initiated site may be to inspire fear of the NDP under Thomas Mulcair, I think it suggests a measure...

I've just spent about the last 45 minutes watching the tribute to Jack Layton at the NDP leadership convention. The heartfelt praise ab...