Politics and its Discontents

Rob Ford has embarrassed both himself and the city he was elected to serve yet again and again .

Enjoy !

You decide. The video was taken early this morning.

Like a bloated, aging and wounded lion who realizes his hold over his pride is at an end, Conrad Black is lashing out. Still licking his w...

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

Those who, over the years, have grown weary of the pretentious blather of Conrad Black, the lord and baron much put upon by the requiremen...

Feeling singularly uninspired this morning, I offer a tidbit of the obvious: 'Ford Nation,' that much vaunted segment of the popul...

As a retiree, I occasionally think that maybe I have too much time on my hands - too much time to follow politics, especially its more sor...

It is no revelation to state how hypocritical the current Conservative cabal is. However, those tough-on-crime zealots are betraying new dep...

I have shamelessly cribbed the following from Montreal Simon. Please check out his commentary on the continuing Toronto soap opera known si...

...some Saturday afternoon wisdom:

I hope this will be one of my last posts about the Rob Ford soap opera, but that is probably a futile hope, given the rich sociological an...

New and long-term members of the Profoundly Stupid Club can rejoice: their mascots, Rob and Doug Ford, the darlings of the dimwitted, the ba...

I was in a rather foul mood yesterday, and I think it was largely attributable to the ongoing spectacle known as Toronto civic politics. L...

Watch below as reputed drug dealer Councillor Doug Ford thuggishly engages in some sanctimonious and hypocritical grandstanding in 'defe...

Not one to take the high road, I will state the obvious here. Clearly, the Rob Ford bobblehead is not built to scale.

Recently, as I watched Peter Mansbridge's One on One interview with former Prime Minister Joe Clark, I was reminded of a time when Cana...

You have my sympathies, and I assume you need no explanation:

H/t The Chronicle Herald

One cannot help but wonder if Toronto's Chief Buffoon, Rob Ford, had been 'over served' in some capacity (take your pick of mi...