“The issue is a form of government theft that the Supreme Court encouraged with its worst decision of the last decade — one that probably will be radically revised in this one.”
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Manitoba Can’t Get Any Respect
“In what almost seemed an afterthought, Manitoba, rather than being offered a seat at the table, was sent the paperwork for review.”
An Insult To Humanity
“Given humankind’s ingenuity, we would have no trouble adapting to a possible rise in global temperatures.”
December 7, 2009; Another Day Of Infamy?
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and President Roosevelt called it a Day in Infamy. On Monday December 7, 2009 a world conference and a bureaucratic action is another day of infamy. It’s loss of freedom day.
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Process, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Accountability and Transparency Inspectorate, ‘PEEATI’
A litany of disastrous decisions have sometimes cost lives and definitely many billions of dollars. Effectively cancelling the Global Public Health Intelligence Network; the failure to implement the pandemic preparedness protocols developed by Ottawa’s public health...
Foreign Influence in Canadian Economy?
Foreign influence or interference has become a mediatic topic. The fear and suspicion of interference in the elections and democratic process have been in news headlines. For the western countries, the suspicion bears on Russia and China. Revisionist powers have a...
Americans Vote on Taxes with Their Feet
In a fascinating new book, Rich States, Poor States, U.S. supply-side economists Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore document a remarkable hypothesis – that high tax rates redistribute people, not incomes.
PM’s Plan to Beat Inflation
Outlining in Perth today a five-point plan to fight inflation, the Prime Minister will set a new target for the budget surplus of 1.5per cent of the nation’s gross domestic product. These measures would have the potential to take pressure off home interest rates by slowing the surging pace of consumer and business spending that has the Reserve Bank worried.
It’s Unanimous: Toronto’s Megacity is a Flop
The Ontario government’s forced merger of Toronto on Jan. 1, 1998, inspired the Quebec government’s forced merger of Montreal four years later. Mega-Toronto served as a model, a prototype, a muse. So, as it marks its 10th anniversary, it’s useful to see how the...
Allowing Too Many Rights Ends Up Making a Wrong
It was one of those rare, particularly sunny days in Vancouver in September when, addressing an audience at the University of British Columbia, I suggested that official multiculturalism and its partner in crime, moral relativism, were leading to the demise of Western...
Calling All Cars
More Taxis Mean Safer Streets, Less Traffic And Less Pollution. So Why Do Cities Refuse To Put More Cabs On The Road?
Misinterpreting the Weather
I ’d like to wish you a happy New Year, but I’m afraid I have a different sort of prediction. You’re in for very bad weather. In 2008, your television will bring you image after frightening image of natural havoc linked to global warming. You will be told such bizarre...
TriMet to Me: You Cannot Get There From Here
Portland transit is too slow.
Kiwi Fruit for America
Once upon a time, in a country way, way down under, the government dismantled its system of agricultural subsidies and supports. Initially, cries of outrage and disbelief were heard from farmers all across the land. For more than 20 years, farm assistance had steadily...
The Pope Condemns the Climate Change Prophets of Doom
Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.