The sound of toilets being flushed at Queens Park and Parliament Hill today was almost deafening. The sound of all that money going down the drain to "rescue" failing automaker Daimler Chrysler. The United States government has now taken a 8% stake in the company and Canada now owns 2% of the shares. The UAW/CAW now owns more than half the company's...
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Chrysler Now Nationalized... Sort of
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Economic Issues,
Federal Politics,
Ontario Politics
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Swine Flu Should be Wake Up Call For US Immigration
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Health Care,
International Relations
Everybody is now panicked over the so called swine flu that's gripping Mexico. So far, the flu has moved into the United States and Canada. Most of the current cases in the United States have come from people who visited Mexico City in recent days on business and vacation. However, I think it should act as a wake up call over America's issue of illegal...
What is With Humanity's Obsession with Doomsday?
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Social Commentary
Japan has awarded its top scientific honours to MIT professor Dennis Meadows, who thinks it will all be over by 2100. In 1972, he lead a study on human growth trends and predicted that would be the year in which everything falls apart. He has gotten an award and a beefy $500,000 grant for his work. His study has been called alarmist and anti-technology...
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Turner Getting Sued, Well... Maybe, Hopefully
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Corruption,
Federal Politics,
Media Issues
The Odyssey of Garth Turner never seems to end. The trend now for washed up celebrities and politicians is to write the tell-all-book, and Garth is no exception. The book, titled Sheeple: Caucus Confidential in Stephen Harper's Ottawa, naturally takes a stab at the Harper government. However, it has landed Turner in legal hot water with the Canadian...
The End of the Canadian Auto Industry
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Economic Issues,
Ontario Politics
I think Ontarians need to send a loud, clear message to the Canadian Auto-Workers Union. The union is protesting today at Queens Park, 5000 strong, to try and force the government to cough up $6 billion for their pension funds. I already discussed this in depth about how harmful such a payout would be for non-CAW members who would end up footing the...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
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International Relations
Ah, the intellectual, enlightened liberal. What intelligent things they say.WASHINGTON - A diplomatic skirmish broke out Tuesday over suggestions by Janet Napolitano, the U.S. homeland security secretary, that terrorists have routinely entered the United States through Canada, including the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks. Napolitano's remarks...
Monday, April 20, 2009
New Tax System for Canada: The Party Tax
I was thinking about Michael Ignatiff's comments that Canada should raise taxes during a recession, and about Dalton McGuinty's 8% tax increase. People on the left seem to be all about taxes and are quite content to pay more. Therefore, I've devised a new tax system for Canada which I'm calling the Party Tax.The Party Tax does away with all conventional...
Want to Save the Planet: Stop Eating Say UK Profs.
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Climate Change
British climate researchers are saying that the UK population must become more lean, like the people of Vietnam, to reach the government's 80% carbon reduction targets. Heavier people eat more. Agriculture is said to be a major carbon emitter. Also, heavier people use more fuel in their cars and on public transit than leaner people do. So apparently...
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Not Our War
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International Relations
Many Canadians seem to be ignorant of why we are in Afghanistan. Most think it was primarily due to our partnership with the US. That is only half the truth since it has been forgotten that dozens of Canadians died during 9/11, thus it was not only an act of war on the United States but on our country as well. What is Canada's role when it comes to...
Friday, April 17, 2009
Pirate Bay Ruling Shows Flaws With Modern Copyright Law
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Corruption,
Crime and Justice,
Media Issues
I never thought I'd be talking about Sweden on here but here we are. A court in the Scandinavian country has convicted Pirate Bay's co-founders and have found them guilty of accessory to breeching copyright laws. For those who don't know, Pirate Bay is like Google for torrents. A torrent is a peer-to-peer downloading service. Pirated music and movies...
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Noise Pollution
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Climate Change,
Health Care,
Transportation Issues,
Urban Sprawl
With all the talk about global warming and such, one form of pollution which can be just as harmful to one's health seems to get ignored. That is noise pollution. My current living situation went from a quiet neighbourhood to the equivalent of living next to the 401 in three year's time. I have found myself living in my guest bedroom just to be able...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Galloway Funding Terror? Apparently So
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Crime and Justice,
International Relations
Looks like the Government of Canada was justified of keeping British RSPECT MP George Galloway out of the country on grounds of funding terrorist activities. The UK Charity Commission has sent him a letter advising Galloway that they've lost patience with him and his organization. They're demanding he show up to provide answers regarding his charitable...
Monday, April 13, 2009
Wasting Green on Green: The Tale of the $120 Rain Barrel
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Climate Change,
Misc.
Now for something completely different. Canadian Tire is selling a 180L rain barrel for $120, on sale this week for a pittance of $100! It's being marketed as a "green" alternative that could save up to 40% on your summer water bill. (we all know that "up to 40%" usually means somewhere in the ball park of 0%-1%) This is the perfect example on wasting...
An Unpublished Letter to the Champion on Urban Sprawl
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Corruption,
Media Issues,
Municipal Politics,
Ontario Politics,
Urban Sprawl
It's been a while since I've written anything local but sometimes something just boils your backside so much that it just has to go to print. So let me give you a bit a background information. A developer is trying to build a huge mall behind my house that nobody wants or needs. Local residents, the hospital, housing developers, and local councillor...
Friday, April 10, 2009
Idiots Hall of Shame: First Quarter 2009
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Idiots Hall of Shame Archives
Alright, I may or may not have stolen, err, borrowed the idea from Toronto radio host Bill Caroll. This is a list of people and organizations in politics who I think have done outright stupid things. The list is on the sidebar but after four months of it, it's starting to outgrow that format. However, I want to keep it stickied. So instead, I'm just...
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Wasting Green on Green: Green Charity Scams
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Climate Change,
Misc.,
Social Commentary
World Wildlife Fund is gearing up to do it's annual CN Tower Stair Climb later this month. This event used to be in support of the United Way but that changed somewhere in the last couple of years. The WWF stair climb is to fight global warming while the United Way fights poverty and homelessness in the city. Neither are big concerns to me but I find...
CAW Signing It's Own Pension Death Warrant
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Economic Issues,
Ontario Politics,
Taxation
Is Ontario legally, or for that matter morally obligated to ensure GM retirees are guaranteed a pension? CAW president Ken Lewenza thinks so, once again proving my theory that big unions are currently living on another planet. I got to thinking about my own parents who have recently retired. They're small business owners. Aside from the money invested...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
How Tough Times Breed Radicalism
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Economic Issues,
Misc.,
Social Commentary
Many people are perplexed as to how someone like Adolf Hitler could rise to power and commit so many atrocities virtually unchecked during his rule over Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler was an evil man most certainly but he was not the cause of Germany's problems, he was a symptom. The social and governmental problems that eventually culminated in...
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