Politics and its Discontents

I won't for a moment pretend that I am not glad to see Justin Trudeau's Liberals as our new government. But as happened with a vice-...

If there is one good thing to be said about the Leslie Roberts scandal , it is that privately owned Global Television has acted with dispa...

At least that might seem to be a reasonable inference to draw given people's increasing capacity not to answer questions that make them ...

The interesting thing about political ambition and public outrage is that sometimes they work synergistically to produce positive results. J...

As noted yesterday , the Temporary Foreign Workers Program continues to cause both grief and outrage among Canadians. The latest publicly-...

Although the Temporary Foreign Workers Program predates the ascension to power of the Harper regime, there is mounting evidence that the a...

... seems to be undergoing some serious perturbations these days. Earlier in the month came the story of three McDonald's outlets in B...

Despite assurances last year that the TFW (Temporary Foreign Workers) program was being reformed because of a myriad of reported abuses , t...

Like the good yeo(wo)man she is, Ms Leitch never deviates from the Harper regime script as she 'answers' Evan Solomon's quest...

The question of personal integrity is one that is very near and dear to my heart. Since literature at its best is a reflection of some of ...

See if you can detect even a modicum of it in Kellie Leitch, who starts talking at about the 9-minute mark of this video dealing with the ma...

I have a busy morning ahead, so for now I take the liberty of reproducing two letters from this morning's Star that make some excelle...

Yesterday, over at Northern Reflections , Owen Gray wrote a post entitled A Lost Generation , a reflection on the discouraging prospect...

In what looks like yet another invitation by the Harper regime to corporate thievery in Canada, Human Resources Minister Diane Finley last w...