Reports last week that the recession is draining Social Security and Medicare funds were just one more reminder that the United States needs to fix its finances. For inspiration, why not look to Canada? Over the past few years, while U.S. politicians presided over huge increases in spending and debt, the Canadian government tightened its belt, slashed tax rates and balanced budgets.
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US State Considers Relaxing Smoking Ban
Bars and restaurants say they have lost up to a quarter of their takings since the law came into force in 2007.
Soak The Rich, Lose The Rich
States aren’t simply competing with each other. As Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently told us, “Our state is competing with Germany, France, Japan and China for business. We’d better have a pro-growth tax system or those American jobs will be out-sourced.”
On Guns And Climate, The Elites Are Out Of Touch
The liberal elite is less interested in giving up its luxuries (Al Gore purchases carbon offsets to compensate for his huge mansion and private jet travel) than in changing the lifestyles of the masses who selfishly insist on living in suburbs and keeping guns for recreation or protection. Ordinary Americans are seen not as responsible fellow citizens building stable communities but as greedy masses who must be disciplined to live according to the elite’s religious dogmas.
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Crown Corporations Can Evade Disaster If They Are Sold Off
The recent unhappy news that Canadian taxpayers will soon be at least partially bailing out the government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the owners of Nalcor, which is completing the massively over-budget and behind-schedule Muskrat Falls power plant, may be the least...
Canada Looks Like Communism to Calgary Pastor
When Artur Pawlowski came to Canada in 1995, he did not think it would turn out as it has. The pastor of Calgary’s Street Church, famous for his confrontations with police, says Canada looks too much like the Communist Poland he grew up in. “I grew up seeing police...
Sweden Begins Sell-off of State Assets
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Sweden’s government began its planned selloff of state assets today, putting an 8 percent stake in telecom operator TeliaSonera AB valued at about $3 billion on the auction bloc.
The Sin of CO2
In a couple of hundred years, historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the 10th century as the Christian millennium approached. Then, as now, the doomsters identified human...
Is Classroom Global Warming Preaching Indoctrinating the Next Generation?
Do you know what your children are learning in school about climate change? Have you ever looked at their textbooks? Is it education or indoctrination? How accurate are the facts? How much is it an ideological or a political message? Is it a balanced curriculum...
The Rock Takes Ice Crisis in Stride
Newfoundlanders are crying, laughing and carrying on while the rest of the country frets about more than 100 vessels stuck in the ice off the province's northern shore, says veteran fisherman Jack Troake. It is common that boats would become lodged between ice pans...
Politicians ‘Missing the Point’ on Hydro, Say Experts
The leaders of Manitoba’s three major political parties have debated public ownership of Manitoba Hydro over the past few days but it’s a debate that misses the point, says Energy Probe‘s Tom Adams.
Diverse Choices Give Schools Personal Touch
New families often surprised at what is offered
Relax, the Planet is Fine
Money is partly to blame for the global warming hysteria, Professor Richard Lindzen says
Why So Gloomy?
Judging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhouse gas emissions are contributing at some level. Both of these statements are almost...
Global Warming? Do the Math
“UN Report Proves Canada Must Act Now On Climate Change,” trumpeted the headline of a Liberal party press release on Friday, timed to correspond with the release of yet another alarmist UN summary on climate change. “Canada must act aggressively now to avert the...