Politics and its Discontents

I like to regularly post letters-to-the-editor that hit targets concisely and precisely. The following meet those criteria. On the subject o...

That is the question Don Graves asks in his hard-hitting lead letter printed in this morning's Star . Enjoy. I look out my window and...

Responding to the latest propaganda piece about taxation levels from The Fraser Institute, Star readers weigh in with their own perspecti...

The Toronto Star recently featured the 2013 Atkinson Series: Me, You, Us, journalist and author Michael Valpy’s investigation into social...

It is always heartening to me, and I am sure to countless others, to see that some members of the Canadian electorate are not asleep at th...

Regular readers of this blog may be aware of my almost boundless enthusiasm for ...

Yesterday I wrote a post expressing real pleasure that The Toronto Star is enjoying such a wide readership and profitability, given th...

Paul Kahnert of Markham has an uncommonly apt observation in this morning's Star , one that I'm sure the ideologues leading us both ...

After many setbacks , Sayed Shah Sarifi, the brave young Afghan interpreter who recently arrived in Toronto thanks to his own tenacity ...

While I have sometimes been critical of my former union, The Ontario Secondary Teachers Federation, both in this blog and my other one ,...

Despite my general disaffection with the mainstream media, I continue to be heartened by one of the few bright spots on the journalisti...

The following suspects have walked free after officers lied in court: an accused pimp of a teenage girl, possessors of child pornography, a ...

For those who might have been concerned that the animus, hatred and paranoia of the Harper government is directed almost exclusively at men,...

Or that might be the easy inference to draw about Mayors Rob and Doug Ford. As reported yesterday , The Toronto Star is filing a complaint ...

As I have written elsewhere, in my view there are few Canadian columnists who can match or exceed the depth and range of intellect consisten...

We are approaching the one-year anniversary of U.S. Steel's lockout of the workers from its Hamilton plant; the lockout would seem to be...

Although I rarely reprint items from the newspaper in their entirety on this blog, occasionally someone says something so succinct and insig...

I have written before about how much we are enjoying our subscription to The Toronto Star, one of the few newspapers that still seems to be ...

Yesterday I posted some of the comments made by Justice Allen upon sentencing two Toronto police officers to a year of house arrest for bea...

Those were the words of Justice Elliot Allen as he sentenced two Toronto police officers to one year of house arrest for beating a Cabbageto...