Politics and its Discontents: Oh, And Another Thing
Without doubt, some readers will be wearying of my seeming obsession with Omar Khadr. A good part of my interest in him over the past few years stems from the injustice with which he has been treated,...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Breaking News On Omar Khadr
T The Harper vendetta against Omar Khadr has suffered another defeat: The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that Omar Khadr, the former teenage al-Qaeda member freed on bail last week in Alberta,...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: The Art Of Misdirection
Some, I guess, are better at it than others. Recommend this Post
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: The Muslim Threat To Stephen Harper
Were I of the Muslim faith, I suspect I would have a deep and abiding contempt for Stephen Harper and his cabal. After all, he is the prime minister who has made Islamophobia a centrepiece of his...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: The Harper Regime In One Easy-To-Understand...
H/t Boycott The Harper Conservatives For those of you who are more text-oriented or want a comprehensive recounting of the depredations of the Harper years, I encourage you to check out and bookmark...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: In Which Stephen Harper Tries To Change The...
One suspects it won’t work. Recommend this Post
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: About Those Diversions, Mr. Harper
H/t Raeside Cartoons Meanwhile, always perspicacious Toronto Star readers will have none of it. Here is but a small sampling of their sentiments on Mr. Harper’s diversionary tactics: Re: Harper vows to...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Clearly, There Is Method In Harper’s Madness
Recently, Robin Sears wrote a piece severely critical of the Conservative response to the Syrian crisis, a commentary prompted by Immigration Minister Chris Alexander’s disastrous appearance on Power...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: The Code Deciphered
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View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Echoing His Master’s Voice?
People who read my blog regularly may have noticed that lately I have been posting videos and images more than I have been writing. The fact of the matter is that as a political junkie I have...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Robert Fisk
Last evening my wife and I attended a talk given by Robert Fisk, the renowned British journalist who has lived in and covered the Middle East for almost 40 years. The talk was quite dense, given the...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Hope Fades ……
It is becoming difficult to hold on to hope. Despite all we know about the Harper regime, despite all that has been written about its corruption, its abuse of power, its undermining of our democratic...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: He Sounds, On The Surface, So Reasonable
As I lamented in yesterday’s post, the issue of the niqab at citizenship ceremonies is apparently responsible for a resurgence of support for the Harper regime, whose leader has ruthlessly exploited...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Lifting The Veil
Lifting the veil behind what has become a major part of the Tory re-election strategy reveals nothing good. Consider, for example, this shameful announcement by party stalwart Kellie Lietch, who has...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: We Aren’t As Good As We Think We Are
If anything, the racism and xenophobia that have become cornerstones of the Harper re-election strategy are showing us something we would prefer not to think about: when provoked, our own darker...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: The Better Angels Of Our Nature
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: About That Pavlovian Response
It is enough to make a recovering cynic suffer a very bad relapse. As I noted earlier this week, to see what lurks just beneath the surface of Canadian sensibilities, something dark and ugly, is...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Another Word From Harry Smith
Harry Smith, who I have written about previously on this blog, has some timely reminders for us this election season. …because so many Canadians of my generation had come from nations fraught with...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Some Things To Give Thanks For
H/t Toronto Star As we celebrate Thanksgiving this weekend, moving beyond the usual things we express gratitude for (family, health, etc.), here are a few other things I give thanks for: A high turnout...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Guest Post: The Values Edition
As we celebrate Thanksgiving, It seems a propitious time to reflect on the values that have been fostered and avidly promoted (especially during this election season} by the Harper government, values...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Something To Gladden The Spirit
During this campaign, while Harper has been appealing to the worst in Canadians, I have to admit that my faith in humanity has been faltering. The following, which I saw on Facebook, is something of a...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: I’ll Be So Glad To See The End Of This
I think most would agree that Terrence Young and the rest of his ilk are long past their best-before dates. Recommend this Post
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Senior Scam Alert
Although now retired as Canada’s longest-serving mayor, the redoubtable Hazel McCallion continues her life of public service: Meanwhile, over at Don Martin’s Power Play, watch the first two minutes of...
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: More From Marg: Canada’s Barbaric Cultural...
Marg Delahunty reminds us of one of the many offences against Canada committed by the Harper regime: Recommend this Post
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Lest We Forget
The Star's Tim Harper reports that Kellie Leitch, one of the robotic but very malleable mainstays of the former Harper regime, has become the first declared candidate for the Conservative Party's...
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