Sorting Through an Economic Mess

I think the history books will remember the 2000s as the being similar to the 1970s. That era was well known in North America for its malaise with the OPEC embargo, the unpopular war in Vietnam, economic recession, Watergate, etc. Right now we're in a bit of a mess that's eerily familiar. The United States is fresh off its sub-prime lending crisis...

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Global Warming Hysteria: Ethanol's Human Cost

Global warming is killing people, but not in the way people like Al Gore and David Suzuki want you to believe. A couple years ago, British documentary the Great Global Warming Swindle noted that environmentalism was an anti-human movement, citing pressure being placed on Africa to adopt green yet inefficient and prohibitively expensive forms...

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Corporations, Abusing Customers, and the Environment

Today is Earth Day so I thought it fitting to take pot shots at the environmentalists. I thought though that I'd conserve my own energy to "spend less on dinner". In other words, I'm feeling too lazy to write an article when Terrance Corcoran of the National Post does a good job summing up the same argument. Basically, his article deals with how big...

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McGuinty, Miller Out of Touch?

Now is not a good time to go to China, especially if you're a politician. Try telling that to Dalton McGuinty though. I certainly guarantee that if this was Mike Harris doing this, there would be a lot more outrage. Yesterday, McGuinty met with Chinese business people while pro-Tibet protesters marched outside. He snuck out the back door in order to...

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Stephen King on Game Censorship

Boston's mayor Menino may not be dead but his brain sure is. He's the latest to speak out on the supposed harms of video game violence. This comes on the heels of a Massachusetts law that would ban the sale of violent video games to people under 18. Stores who violate this law would see heavy fines. The king of horror Stephen King though has come out...

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Carbon Tax Would Hurt Low Income Earners

Perhaps I should go into more detail about why the proposed carbon tax has struck a nerve with me outside of my conservative mindset. Being a university student, I'm a low income earner. I drive a fuel efficient car. Yesterday, I noticed I had less than a 1/4 tank of fuel left. The gas station was selling it for $1.12. Too expensive I said. Unfortunately,...

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Art Spiegelman on Political Correctness

Art Speigelman is well known for his graphic novel Maus, about a Polish Jewish family during the Holocaust. He is in Toronto for a lecture on censorship. An interview with the National Post explains his views on political correctness what it's not just conservatives that need to be concerned about it.Politically Correct 'Fever' Grips CanadaHis lecture...

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Less for More: Garbage Collection

I've decided to start a new series of articles entitled "Less for More". One of the things I've noticed lately is how our tax bills are on the rise, yet government services that effect the average Joe seem to be on the decline. Coming on the heels of learning that the Ontario civil service "Sunshine" list (those earning more than $100,000) has grown...

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