The Clamshell

I contributed this piece to Torontoist on Friday, and seeing as how today is Budgetmas, it seems fit to re-post it here.  Our Budgets Tell U...

hy·poc·ra·cy     (h -p k r -s ) n.   pl.   hy·poc·ra·cies 1.  The systemic practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one do...

Over in New York magazine , Canadian conservative and former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum has an excellent piece on the Republican...

Library meeting bingo card created by the always awesome @neville_park at last night's library meeting.   One important aspect of ele...

Courts make governing in a democratic society quite a challenge -Norm Kelly in the Toronto Sun, discussing the court's injunction on evi...

Like the financial system, democracy is predicated on trust in the institutions that serve it and the means by which they're expressed. ...

So I think I'm going to start providing summaries for the committee meetings each day, both to help in understanding and to better track...