Is the PMO a criminal organization?
The Prime Minister's Office is home to much that seems highy questionable in the Senate Expenses Scandal. Nigel Wright's payment of $90,000.00 to Mike Duffy is only part of the story. Is the PMO a...
View ArticleMilton Acorn: Hot Coffee On The People's Poet- By Ron Dart
A novel that has held me for many a year is Boris Pasternak’s lyrical and poetic Dr. Zhivago. The tale is told by Yevgraf Zhivago-- he is in search of his distinguished half-brother, Dr. Yuri Zhivago.
View ArticleRon Dart's Review Of
Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life Dennis Gruending 2011
View ArticleThe Hidden Strength Of Red Toryism In Canada, Part One
It’s common these days to hear the claim that Red Toryism is dead in Canadian politics. Many observers believe that the demise of the older version of Canadian conservatism, popularized by the likes...
View ArticleThe Hidden Strength Of Red Toryism In Canada, Part Two
At this time, just over halfway through Stephen Harper’s first term as a majority government, it’s worth finding out if traditional Canadian conservatism, more popularly known as Red Toryism, is dead....
View ArticleLeft Nationalism. Canadian Survival. And The Great Brainwash
Younger Canadians have forgotten the moves towards independence - a product of Left nationalism - that were abruptly terminated with end of the Trudeau era in the early 1980s. In the productive period...
View ArticlePoisoning The Wells In Canadian Politics
By now, we’re probably all sick of hearing about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and everything to do with him. However, it’s worth considering just how he got elected in the first place, how things got so bad,...
View ArticleFascism and Contemporary Canada. Part 9. The 'Socialist Hordes...
What's in a name? The Social Credit government of B.C. (1952-1972) was in many ways 'progressive'. The Liberal government of Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark since 2001, in comparison, has joined...
View ArticleWhy Can't We Have The Best Of Both Worlds?
Politically, 2013 wasn’t much different than previous years. In Toronto, Rob Ford accused his opponents of wanting to keep the “gravy train” going, while his opponents accused him of hypocrisy and...
View ArticleFascism And Contemporary Canada. Part Ten.'The Conservative Party ...'
Repeated, organized fraud intended to damage Canada's electoral system has been recorded since 2006. As a national Party-approved-and-organized activity, the fraud appears to be confined to The...
View Article''Stephen Leacock And T.S. Eliot: A Meeting Of The Minds'', By Ron Dart
Stephen Leacock is known, by most Canadians, as an important literary humourist (with a gentle Swiftian bite) and political economist. Most do not realize that Leacock wrote some fine books on...
View ArticleFascism and Contemporary Canada. Part Eleven. Canada Post
The attack on Canada Post by its top officers and the Conservative cabinet reveals the larger plan of The Far Right for Canada.
View ArticleThe Trudeau Paradox, Part I: The Origins Of Quebec Nationalism
The results of the 2012 provincial election in Quebec, which returned the Parti Quebecois to power, only reconfirmed the perceptions many Canadians in other parts of the country had of Quebec. They...
View ArticleThe Trudeau Paradox, Part II: Mulroney And The Constitution
Part I of this essay discussed the origins of Quebec nationalism and the desire of Francophone Quebecers to have their province recognized as a “distinct society” within Canada. This desire was...
View ArticleThe Trudeau Paradox, Part III: Towards Reconciliation
In Part I of this essay, we discussed the origins of Quebec nationalism and how it developed into a desire by Francophone Quebecers to have their province recognized as a distinct society within...
View ArticleTax Cuts Come With A Price
Tax-filing season, everybody’s favourite time of year, is once again upon us in Canada. It’s that time of year that we get to see just how much of our money our provincial and federal governments...
View ArticleThe Super-Rich and Canadians. 'Come the revolution....'
In the sharpening contest between the repressive super-rich of the world and protesting populations, Canada's major political parties have lined up. With the super-rich. But ... 'come the revolution...
View ArticleThe Charter Of Values And Criticism Of Quebec
The debate over Quebec’s secular Charter of Values has been a heated one. The proposed Charter would restrict public servants from wearing conspicuous religious items such as burqas and niqabs, which...
View ArticleRobert Service: The People's Poet, by Ron Dart
Most Canadians have heard of Robert Service (1874-1958) as the popular and successful author of The Shooting of Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. These two ballad type poems catapulted...
View ArticleWake Up To The Modern World
The One Per Cent has declared war on the democratic governments of the world. The industrial/financial war-lords began the struggle against humanity before the nneteenth century ... and haver never...
View Article