Politics and its Discontents

In a post yesterday, The Mound offered a searing assessment of Justin Trudeau's abject failure on the climate-change file. Only the m...

In response to my post yesterday about CBC bias in its reporting on Ontario's minimum wage increase, the Mound wrote a detailed comme...

I have always believed, and still do, that one of the essentials for bringing about real political change is knowledge. To be aware of and...

Unless we live in complete and willful ignorance, all of us are aware, on at least a minimal level, of the perils currently confronting an...

In a recent post well-worth reading, The Mound reflected on the decline of support for liberal democracy. Today, Star readers respond to...

Receiving and responding to the comments of thoughtful and well-informed people is one of the reasons I maintain this blog. Yesterday I put...

In response to my post yesterday , The Mound of Sound offered the following observations, which I am featuring as a guest post. The Moun...

H/t Toronto Star In response to yesterday's post , both the Salamander and the Mound of Sound offered some interesting commentary. T...

Two posts by the Mound of Sound during my absence amply demonstrated the ongoing derangement of the religious right. One suggested that God...

The Mound of Sound , who knows a great deal about the topic, offered the following response to my post on our hubris and our folly . Than...

If you read The Mound of Sound regularly, you will understand that there is no quick fix for the myriad problems the world faces. As he ha...

Yesterday, The Mound of Sound had a post on the role that Pope Francis is playing in the climate change debate. Given his growing moral aut...

Yesterday, I posted a video of Russell Brand excoriating the absence of any real choice when it comes to the vision offered by various po...

This one is for my friend The Mound of Sound who, I think, would agree with the sentiments expressed. One thing you can say about Russell B...

It is to state the obvious that all progressives long for the day that the Harper regime is ousted from office. What is not so obvious, ho...

For those many who have been following the Mound of Sounds' posts on my blog for the past while, good news: he has reactivated his blog,...

P osted by MoS, the Disaffected Lib: Pierre Backpfeifengesicht Poilievre has declared Conservative war on Canada's "radical&qu...

Posted by MoS, the Disaffected Lib: An old friend of mine from Ottawa is a veteran Tory with roots going back to the Stanfield years. A...

Posted by MoS, the Disaffected Lib: It's the latest term spawned by climate change - "nuisance flooding." According to In...

Posted by MoS, the Disaffected Lib: There have been a number of reports over the past year or two that, taken collectively, seem to point ...