Politics and its Discontents

To listen to post-election Ontario Tories and to take them at their word would suggest that the lot of them were simply dupes of Machiavelli...

The fact that I experienced physical and verbal abuse at the hands of my teachers during my Catholic education probably has a lot to do wi...

I'll say right off the top that I am no fan of recently re-elected Ontario Progressive Conservative Lisa MacLeod, and not just because s...

While we should be back from our trip tomorrow in time to catch the Ontario election news coverage, this seems an opportune time to remin...

It would never occur to me to withhold my vote in any election. Yet the one occurring in Ontario on June 12 is particularly striking in it...

While much of the media seem to give young Tim Hudak a free pass on his ludicrouse claim that he will create one million jobs in Ontario o...

Tom, a friend of mine, posted the following on Facebook yesterday: Kind of tired of all the polemical posturing in the latest election. ...

Here's a whopper from one of young Tim's chief disciples, Lisa MacLeod :

Hyperbole is, of course, a mainstay of political campaigns, as those vying for public office offer a blunt message to potential voters. Ke...

H/t Theo Moudakis If you have resided in Ontario for some years, and were of a certain age when Ontario's Common Sense Revolution wa...

H/t Ruth Blair

I imagine that many people who follow politics closely do so in the belief that it is one of the few arenas that offers the possibility of...

While those heard-headed pragmatists who rule the world today often disdain 'soft' subjects like English literature, sociology, an...

The mask of boyish innocence was slowly slipping away from young Tim Hudak. H/t Toronto Star H/t Ray Mirshahi

But at least young Tim manages to retain his boyish grin during yet another campaign gaffe .

Maybe I am just angry because a progressive budget was dismissed by an allegedly progressive party. Maybe I am fearful that an NDP-induc...

Well, the more cynical among us might suggest that Andrea Horwath no longer has a monopoly on political expediency in Ontario. More trustin...

This one's for you, young Tim . H/t Union Thugs

Aware of my interest in politics, my friend Gary sent me an email this morning: I read a comment in the National Post and it made me think...