A friend, no star-spangled admirer of all things American, just returned from Washington D.C. asking why our capital is so dingy compared to theirs. I fear the answer is a commitment to mediocrity, a passion for the bronze. Click here to read the rest.

Modern elections are like some algebra class nightmare. You’re meant to put an X on the ballot but X equals the unknown because you can’t figure out who to vote for. The clock is ticking and you need an answer and cold clammy sweat drips from your brow. Click here to read the rest.

Who’s running this country anyway? They seem to be doing an appalling job. So how do we make them stop? Click here to read the rest.

Where have all Ontario’s ridings gone? They seem as disposable as our sense of community. Click here to read the rest.

This just in: Canadians are disgusted with political parties. We think politicians don’t care what voters think. Click here to read the rest.

Imagine an anthropologist came to study Canada’s strange public rituals from some unspoiled region where only birds tweet and “reality television” could not be explained even if someone could be found who wanted to know. Upon encountering the thing known as a “federal budget,” he might well release a cloud of arrows to cover his precipitous flight back to a blessed homeland where “fiscal federalism” would be ceremonially incinerated if it ever intruded. But if not, what would he record for his bewildered fellows? Click here to read the rest.

Justin Trudeau seems to have attracted a lot of publicity with his proposal to reform our unelected upper chamber by making it even less elected and less of an upper chamber. Which is nice I guess. The thing is, I can’t figure out what his suggestion is for beyond fleeting PR success. Click here to read the rest.

So King Barack has had it with legislatures. My, that’s original. Or not. Didn’t Richard Nixon come up with it? And Richard II. Click here to read the rest.