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Politics and its Discontents: A Tale of Two Moralities
A message from your Harper Government to all E.I. claimants: A message from your Harper Government to all Canadians regarding allegations of fraud in the Senate: Fortunately, the NDP didn’t get the memo. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Incorrigible Deb Matthews
That Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews, who presided over the Ornge scandal, remains in her portfolio in the new Wynne government is unfathomable to me. A woman of breathtaking incompetence who steadfastly refused all calls for her resignation as each sordid detail of corruption and sybaritic spending within the air
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Eloquent Plea
Even though her speech isn’t completely clear, Cathy Jordan, who has been suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) for 20 years, issues an eloquent plea for the use of medical marijuana, the drug she believes is responsible for her atypical longevity with the disease; ALS kills the majority within two
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ongoing Outrage
The host of letters appearing in today’s Star attests to the ongoing public outrage over the Senate porkbarrellers. Although in many ways a mere sideshow to the endemic and systemic problems that face our governance, it nonetheless illustrates that Canadian anger, when it can be aroused, can be formidable. I
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: They Still Walk Among Us
I have always felt a deep, abiding respect and affection for people of integrity. During my career as an English teacher, I took special delight in teaching plays like Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Robert Bolt’s Man For All Seasons, which told sories of real-life people who made the ultimate
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: One Book
Although it has been many years since I read it, I was very pleased to see that the Toronto Public Library has chosen Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 for its One Book annual community reading event. Although first published in 1953, this eerily prescient novel tells the story of a world
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Child Poverty
Late last year I wrote a post expressing my discomfort with the proliferation of foodbanks. Despite the fact that I volunteer at one, I can’t escape the notion that it has become an enabler of government inaction on poverty in this country. As well, the fare available from foodbanks is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This One Isn’t Much of a Challenge
But apparently our Prime Minister heartily disagrees, constitutional requirements notwithstanding (BNA Act 23:5). Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Villagers With Pitchforks
Looks like these folks need some direction: I suspect young Tim Hudak would like to provide it for them. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tim Speaketh Again
The only trouble is, everytime he does, he affirms his incompetence. Yes, young Tim Hudak, the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, has weighed in on yet another ‘obstruction’ that he believes can be remediated through his simplistic prism. This time it is that pesky perennial problem of those
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Precariously Employed
The other day I made reference in a post to a study showing that half of the workers in the GTA are precariously employed, meaning they have unstable and unreliable employment with no benefits, a reality sharply at odds with the triumphalism of the right over the putative unalloyed good
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Does Mike Duffy Have ‘Pump Head’?
Well, in the tried and true tradition of governments announcing embarrassing news on Fridays, ‘P.E.I. Senator’ Mike Duffy kinda sorta admitted to maybe an error, thanks to ‘confusing senate forms’ asking for his primary residence. Not that he did anything wrong, of course, but after 80 days of what Tim
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Free Trade – Part 2
Continuing with the theme of yesterday’s post, I am taking the liberty of reproducing some letters that appear in today’s Star on free trade. They nicely puncture the myth, propagated and perpetuated by the right, of its unalloyed benefits to Canada: Brian Mulroney and the harsh reality of Canada-U.S. free
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Legend of Brian Mulroney
Actually, our former Prime Minister is more a legend in his own mind, but then, confronting harsh reality has never been one of Mr. Mulroney’s strong suits. His litigious past serves as ample testament to that fact. But myth is always much more exciting than truth, and what better myth
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For Some Insight Into The Corporate Mentality
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Insane Country, Or An Insane Government?
Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By that standard, we can perhaps infer that Canada is insane. As we are reminded in a very interesting column by Thomas Walkom in this morning’s Star, Canada has a long history
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Fathoming The Reactionary Mind
I readily admit that I find it difficult, if not impossible, to fathom the extreme right-wing mind. To me, it is a mind mired in a world of fantasy, willful ignorance, and intractable denial. Magical thinking seems to be a substitute for cogitation. Name-calling in lieu of discussion. Denunciation instead
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Perhaps He Should Try Thinking Before Speaking?
Last week I wrote a post on two inane ideas uttered by young Tim Hudak, the hapless leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party. He proposed tying post-secondary funding to rates of employment upon graduation, along with the idea that only those who achieve a certain mark shuld be elegible for
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Corporate Propaganda and Tax Avoidance
It is the fashion among our corporate overlords and their rabid right-wing courtesans to utter a trite phrase that, because it is repeated so frequently, is taken as truth by many: We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. Like the magician who relies upon misdirection to
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