In my previous post about the Doug Ford OPP scandal, I wondered if people are still capable of collective outrage. It is a concern shared
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Politics and its Discontents: Backroom Dealer Doug Meets With Resistance
Doug ‘Backroom Dealer‘ Ford, the buffoon currently occupying Ontario’s premier’s office, is likely surprised that his appointment of personal pal Ron Taverner, one that reeks
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The other day I wrote a post entitled The Cost of Disengagement. Today’s post might be considered a companion piece, inasmuch as disengagement and ignorance
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I have reached a point in my life where I hold out little hope for our collective future. It is one of the reasons I
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Not to mention a once-proud country. This is what your brain looks like on right-wing propaganda. #MAGA 🤪pic.twitter.com/fm54QWEFA6 — Ryan Knight 🇺🇸 (@ProudResister) December 7,
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The stench of corruption and cronyism that permeates the Ford government here in Ontario is hard to ignore. (See Martin Regg Cohn’s column on the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Incisive Medical Assessment
This needs no commentary from me. DICTIONARY: Sundowning [suhn-doun-ing] Verb Psychiatry: To experience confusion or hallucinations at night as a result of dementia, strange surroundings,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: How Many People Really Care?
Tony Burman writes that worldwide, democracy is dying: In October, a Stockholm-based international institute updated its report on “The Global State of Democracy” — a
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This Is What Ontario Has To Contend With
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Marie at A Puff of Absurdity recently posted on the dysfunction, debasement and corrosiveness that social media has wrought in human relationships. The following seems
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It was Henry David Thoreau who said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.” Harry Leslie
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As much as I may strive to be a critical thinker, sometimes things happen that tempt me to succumb to certain stereotypes. Take, for example,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Kim Jong Un Comes To Canada
Well, at least his spirit has. Kim, you may recall, despite the increasingly smiling face he presents to the world, is not a man to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Idiot-in-Chief Tweets
But, as usual, he spouts arrant nonsense, designed to be cheered by the equally abjectly ignorant: Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Spark Of Integrity
If one follows politics closely, it is easy to become quite jaded. On almost daily display are scenes of arrogance, condescension and the corrupting influence
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WHO DID THIS?????? pic.twitter.com/6BDOM4lApu — ALT- Immigration 🛂 (@ALT_uscis) November 19, 2018 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Such Passion
Too bad we can’t muster some of that in North America. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: White Privilege On Steroids
While the Lord of the Flies criminality at St. Michael’s College should upset everyone, especially the parents of students attending that prestigious institution, I find
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rejecting The Politics Of Expedience
A letter in today’s print edition of The Star by Jack Gallop of Thornhill urges all of us to reject the demagogic politicians who expediently
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Cannabis Beacon
For those seeking to ingest ‘the herb’ legally and are looking forward to the opening of bricks and mortar stores in Ontario April 1st, Premier
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