August 2011

Coalition of losers?

August 30, 2011 Politics

Fascinating, this. Most of this day has been spent arguing over a possible Liberal-NDP merger. Bob Rae, the interim leader of the Liberal Party, keeps denying the need for his party to look at new options, while a former Liberal PM, Jean Chrétien, keeps stoking the merger fire – no surprise, he’s always been in [...]

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Direct democracy never works

August 30, 2011 Politics

Words usually come easy. Hence, people’s general support for more direct democracy, such as referendums or plebiscites. But in a world where common sense, reason and logic are harder and harder to come by, and in Canada, for example, where the rate of (functional) illiteracy is around fifty per cent, can we really leave important [...]

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Quebec government wants to control journalists to cover up its dirty deeds

August 28, 2011 Media

Most Canadians knew it long before a Canadian magazine revealed the hard truth: Quebec is Canada’s most corrupt province. In federal politics, it has always been Quebeckers that were caught with brown envelopes and engaged in all manner of vile and corrupt practices. In recent times, for example, no federal government has been more corrupt [...]

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The Diane Francis way of creating a bureaucratic and fiscal nightmare

August 27, 2011 Business

Columnist Diane Francis used to be known for her no-nonsense approach to analyzing political and business affairs and reaching common-sense solution. For the last few years, however, she has been loopy at best. One wonders whether she suffered a personal tragedy that might have traumatized her so much as to lose her marbles.

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Opposition parties need to take a sober look at their future

August 23, 2011 Politics

As sad as NDP leader Jack Layton’s sudden death has been, life must go on, and this is nowhere more true than in politics. Politicians are responsible to their constituents, and they owe it to voters and taxpayers to put personal issues, including grief, aside.

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American retailers will meet the wrath of Canadian consumers if they don’t play nicely

August 22, 2011 Business

If you live outside of North America, you might think that goods, services and people flow freely across the US-Canadian border thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Those who actually live here know better. As this column has explained on several occasions before, NAFTA has not exactly been beneficial for Canadians. In [...]

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Canada has lost a great human being and politician – Jack Layton

August 22, 2011 Politics

When NDP leader Jack Layton addressed a special press conference several weeks ago, to announce that he had been diagnosed with another new cancer and that he would step down until September to focus on his treatment, I took one look at him and thought, “He won’t live long enough to see September. He’s got [...]

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A brave new world for tablet and other tech consumers

August 21, 2011 Science & Technology

When HP first announced its TouchPad, I was taken aback by how similar it looked to Apple’s iPad. I therefore quickly suggested that Apple should sue HP. Apple didn’t do that, because it became clear early enough that the TouchPad wouldn’t be real competition. It was, in fact, a very cheap and lousy knock-off, which [...]

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Can David Cameron deliver on conservative promises?

August 21, 2011 Politics

Conservatives aren’t a happy bunch – in Britain, that is. They were hoping against all odds, and with plenty of evidence to the contrary, that David Cameron would ring in a new conservative era in British politics and government. Why did Britons vote Conservative last year? They wanted a government that would take Britain out [...]

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Starkey is right to some degree, but he’s definitely not a racist

August 20, 2011 Society

Historian David Starkey recently commented on the possible causes of the riots in England, blaming them on what he called the “Gangsta” culture. True to form, lefties, still suffering from the chronic “political correctness” mental disease, were quick to brand him a racist. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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