October 2010

About omelettes and oilsands

October 28, 2010 Politics

We’re told that you can’t make an omelette without breaking a couple of eggs. That’s true. But does it mean that the eggshells have to be flung around the entire room, sticking to walls and furniture? Why am I talking about omelettes? Because it’s a good simile for what’s been happening with Alberta’s oilsands. More [...]

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Time for a Tea Party in Toronto

October 25, 2010 Politics

The federal Tories must be rubbing their hands in wild anticipation: could it be that, at long last, the socialist/communist crowd that lives in Toronto has finally grown a few viable brain cells and seen the error of their ways? Do conservative voters finally have a chance to be heard in federal elections as well?

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The case of Juan Williams – or how the left is always scared of the truth

October 24, 2010 Media

The left is an amorphous mass made up of several single-cell organisms, but essentially lefties are all the same, particularly when it comes to their phobia of the truth. This isn’t surprising, or big news, because anyone who knows a little something about lefties knows that they are so scared of people telling the truth, [...]

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Canada needs immigration fix, but must say no to racists

October 23, 2010 Politics

Canada’s immigration system hasn’t worked for ages, yet as a nation we have been paralyzed and incapable of so much as debating the issues without sneers and accusations of racism from the politically correct crowd in the cheap seats. The truth of the matter is that today’s immigration system isn’t working for Canada, nor is [...]

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Toronto – how the mighty have fallen

October 22, 2010 Business

Size doesn’t matter after all, as the example of Canada’s biggest city, Toronto, shows. Once known as “Toronto, the Good”, the city is now a shadow of its former self. While the US bemoans its sad state of the economy, Toronto is actually in much worse shape. Unemployment in the Greater Toronto Area is 9.2% [...]

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Calgary’s Purple Revolution holds lesson for all of Canada

October 19, 2010 Politics

If Calgary’s mayoral race has taught us anything, it’s that polls shouldn’t be used to write off candidates simply because they’re too far behind. Naheed Nenshi entered the race as an also-ran, polling in the single digits. Most everyone expected Ric McIver to win, especially the hopeful candidate himself. But Nenshi pulled off the seemingly [...]

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If you don’t care about Calgary, vote for Barb Higgins

October 17, 2010 Politics

When I step into my booth to do a simultaneous interpretation, it’s as if leave my body behind. My body becomes a vessel possessed by the speaker, who uses the part of my brain that controls foreign language skills in order to communicate through me. Once it’s all over, my head may do a few [...]

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Parents, lock away your kids – the Austrians are going nuts!

October 15, 2010 Politics

Remember how Canadians were incensed by the Liberals’ proposition to implement a national daycare program, which would have saddled taxpayers with even steeper bills than what they’re already paying and even larger deficits in the future? If you thought that was a silly idea – that is, to take such critical decisions out of the [...]

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Thirteen languages in three years? Who are you kidding?

October 14, 2010 Society

Ellen Jovin should be chased out of town, tarred and feathered, the way townsfolk used to do with con artists and snake-oil salesmen. Jovin claims she’ll be able to learn thirteen languages in three years, spending only three months on each language, including Chinese, Korean and Arabic. Good luck with that.

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Calgary Votes: Nenshi makes last-minute sprint in polls

October 13, 2010 Politics

How quickly things change. Just a few days ago, the two frontrunners in the mayoral race in Calgary, Ric McIver and Barbara Higgins, were far ahead of third-placed Naheed Nenshi. Today, however, Calgarians see a completely different picture: all three candidates now hold at around 30%, which means the race has finally become interesting. There [...]

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