Me Fail English?

One of my relatives thought it would be an excellent idea to give me a three month subscription to the Toronto Star for Christmas. The reasoning behind it I later found out was so that she could get a discounted subscription. They can't even give that paper away. Sprawled out on the front page of today's Saturday Star was the headline "Race, Poverty...

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Tracking Green Waste

My last article dealt with the huge sums of money the province of Ontario has wasted in combating climate change. It is frequently said that going green will have little to no economic impact. I'm calling shenanigans on them. So, I'm going to start tracking green waste both here in Canada and abroad to come up with a global measure of just how much...

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Wasting Green on Green

The green economy kind of reminds me of a wishing well. You throw money down it fully knowing you probably won't get anything in return. Despite this, something compels people to keep throwing their pennies in. The Ontario Government falls into this category, as do a lot of other left leaning governments across North America. The saviour of our economic...

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Canadian Content Laws Foolishly Archaic

Flashpoint, an action/cop drama TV series was picked up by CBS before CTV did. Apparently, it's quite popular in the United States. It's also a Canadian show following a fictional group of elite Toronto police officers, filmed in Toronto, and produced by CTV. Degrassi: The Next Generation, another CTV program, is also hugely popular in the US and has...

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Doing Drugs A Victimless Crime? Tell that to the Mexicans

Time and time again, you hear the same old garbage from the pro-marijuana supporters and other miscellaneous liberals spouting that consumption of illicit narcotics is a victimless crime. I always laugh at that considering how many people are tortured or murdered in the process of getting those drugs to the end user. Kelly McPharland of the National...

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The Dangers of Fairness

Those following American politics might be familiar with something known as the Fairness Doctrine. The nuts and bolts of it would basically require radio broadcasters to devote equal time to differing opinions. The Democratic party is strongly pushing for this bill as they feel they are being underrepresented on the nation's airwaves. For many years,...

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"Like Drunken Sailors": Cities Need to be Audited

Yesterday, Toronto released it's 2009 budget. Property taxes went up 4% but combined with other taxes the city now charges, the actual tax burden for Torontonians increased 10%. This is typical of many GTA municipalities. In Mississauga, property taxes increased about 4.4% but also came with increased service charges and transit fee hikes. Milton increased...

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McGuinty's HST Plan Nickle & Diming

When I need to buy computer parts online, I usually buy then from British Colombia for a couple of reasons. First of all, Ontario doesn't have any decent places to buy parts. Secondly, it's cheaper, namely because I don't have to pay PST on items purchased out of province. That is, provided that my province doesn't have a harmonized sales tax. HST...

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Obama's "Buy American" Gaffe: Doing Exactly What He Said He Would

Hmm, Obama took longer than I thought he would to screw things up. I had originally figured he would do it on the first day. Still, less than two weeks later we've already had his first major gaffe. While busying himself with the all important mission to delay the DTV switchover, B. Hussain Obama came up with the brilliant economic plan now known as...

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