Politics and its Discontents

But his sandal-clad feet cannot walk the walk. After the disastrous tenure of Paul Wells as national political affairs commentator, it wa...

There is something both restorative and energizing about spending time among people who are politically engaged, and that is probably the ...

Time for a brief follow-up to Elizabeth May's fine dissection of how Harper environmental cuts contributed to the slow response to Va...

By all accounts, before he entered politics, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander was a competent and respected member of Canada's for...

So what else is new? In today's Star , Tim Harper tells a tale of the ongoing indefatigable contempt Canada's putative prime minis...

Although it started out quite ominously with heavy downpours, yesterday turned out to be a good day. As the clouds cleared, we hopped on the...

Unlike some , I do not bemoan the passage of time. True, I am of that generation known as 'the baby boomers,' but while I am at t...

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...

It is commonly held that Stephen Harper chose June 30 for the four recent byelections in the anticipation that turnout would be low. Even...

If Stephen Harper isn't 'feelin' the love,' it is a situation of his own making. Two brief excerpts from Tim Harper's co...

I'm going to spend much of the day trying to finish off the bulk of my flooring project, so I shall merely offer some reading recommen...

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 ...

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...

“I have looked at the numbers. Her travel costs are comparable to any parliamentarian travelling from that particular area of the country ov...

For me, one of the biggest offenses against logical thinking is absolutism, which essentially says there is only one right answer, that ev...

As noted here the other day, young Tim Hudak, in another move that shows the caliber of his leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conserv...

I really have nothing new to add to the sad spectacle of ministerial incompetence epitomized by Defense Minister Peter MacKay, whose on...

For those seeking insight into how Stephen Harper and his regime views the world, The Star's Tim Harper offers some interesting ins...

About two years ago, I wrote a blog post explaining why we cancelled our subscription to The Globe and Mail. At the same time, I sent...

Reading the print version of the story I posted a link to yesterday regarding young Tim Hudak's latest attempt at formulating policy (a...