June 2011

Harper is learning a hard lesson about loyalty and trust

June 22, 2011 Politics

When he was a Reform Party member in the early days, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, like all other Reformers, was committed to Senate reform. I don’t recall if outright abolition of the Red Chamber was ever an option in the Reform plan, but turning the Senate from a playground for a prime minister’s cronies and [...]

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America needs a dose of realism and common sense

June 22, 2011 Politics

A reader asked me recently about which of the Republican candidates I’d support if I could vote in the US presidential election. My answer was that I couldn’t vote for any of them, because none of them “grabbed” me. When I say “grab”, I mean to say that I am looking for a candidate that [...]

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NDP becoming mainstream?

June 21, 2011 Politics

At its Vancouver party convention, the NDP had various business to attend to, especially now that it’s the Official Opposition in the Canadian parliament for the first time. With this position comes a claim to respectability, but also an immense number of responsibilities.

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Why unions are declining and dying

June 16, 2011 Business

In my own “little global village” as a translator, I see the hardship hardworking and highly-skilled people experience daily when they are expected to deliver top-notch output but are not compensated fairly, or treated with an appropriate amount of respect. The conditions we translators have to perform under are often less than ideal, and frequently [...]

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Are Harper Conservatives finally living up to their party label?

June 12, 2011 Politics

As regular readers know, I made a point of not voting Conservative in the last election, because Stephen Harper and his “Conservatives” had been anything but fiscal conservatives in the first five years in office. Truth be told, I had lost all hope of ever seeing genuine conservatism take hold in Ottawa.

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Britain under assault from all sides

June 12, 2011 Politics

If I were a Briton living in Britain today, picking up just one Sunday newspaper, I’d be treated to one shocking article after another, with each thrusting the proverbial fist from within the pages and punching me in the face hard. In fact, it’s so bad that I’d either consider emigrating, and fast, or join [...]

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The Telegraph exposes Labour’s depravity

June 11, 2011 Politics

Anyone in the habit of shedding tears for the “good old times” when Labour was still in power, while spewing vitriol at the austerity measures implemented by Prime Minister David Cameron, should look at recent revelations about how former PM Gordon Brown wasted £90 billion, and how the anti-Blairites (including current Labour leader Ed Miliband) [...]

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Time to manage, rather than prevent, climate change

June 11, 2011 Science & Technology

Stanford University scientists have released a “shocker” at the start of the warmer season. According to their study results, the Northern Hemisphere will suffer increasingly hotter summer temperatures in the next 20 to 60 years.

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Conservative ‘bluewash’ Manning style

June 9, 2011 Politics

In an exchange between Charles Adler and Preston Manning today, the veteran interviewer asked the former leader of the Reform Party about the primary reason why Western conservatives had split from the then Progressive Conservative Party to form the Reform Party. Mr. Manning mulled over the question for a few seconds and then said, “It [...]

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The violent Left is at it again

June 9, 2011 Society

It’s always a tragedy when an innocent bystander is killed by criminals (Jane Creba, for example), but it’s even more tragic when an innocent citizen is killed by police. Unfortunately, this is what happened in Montreal recently.

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