September 2011

To protect its sovereignty, Britain must leave the EU

September 30, 2011 Politics

So, you’re a taxpayer, but you don’t mind because you believe that your taxes help to provide essential government services, such as welfare and health care. You understand that people can sometimes fall on hard times through no fault of their own, and when that happens, they need assistance. You’re fine with that. But you [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

Amazon, unlike Apple, disrespects Canadians

September 29, 2011 Science & Technology

All the Canadian news sources have reported about Amazon’s new tablet, the Kindle Fire. But what all those reports fail to mention is that the tablet won’t be available to Canadians. In fact, it may never be released anywhere outside of the United States.

1 comment Read the full article →

Wildrose Alliance shows the way on human rights

September 27, 2011 Politics

Everyone probably agrees that discrimination on account of aspects beyond the control of the individual, such as one’s skin colour or gender, is wrong. If someone is passed over for a job or an apartment because they happen to be the “wrong colour” or have a foreign-sounding name (something yours truly has personally experienced many [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

Canadian TV – the good and the bad

September 25, 2011 Arts & Entertainment

Blame the cold, long winters in Canada, if you will, but Canadians have always been heavy consumers of TV and entertainment, as well as any of the technology needed to consume TV shows, music or movies. I remember seeing global statistics published by The Economist about twenty years ago that showed Canadians as the world [...]

1 comment Read the full article →

It’s official: Alberta Tories no longer a conservative party

September 19, 2011 Politics

The Wildrose Alliance has every reason to celebrate with some confidence after this weekend. After all, it’s official now: there is only one conservative party in Alberta, thus reflecting the true Alberta spirit, and that party is the Wildrose Alliance.

Read the full article →

Barack Obama – a product of sycophantic media

September 18, 2011 Media

Rex Murphy, one of Canada’s leading common-sense thinkers, has hit the nail on the head yet again. In trying to explain the mess that America finds itself in and the president’s rapidly declining approval ratings, Rex has identified the source of the problem: sycophantic media that failed to do their job.

Read the full article →

Alberta Tories Leadership: Going nowhere

September 16, 2011 Politics

How’s the Alberta Tories leadership race been for you? Has it riveted you to your seat? I can’t help but feel that the whole affair has been a major letdown. After the debacle that was Ed Stelmach’s reign of incompetence, I was hoping to see some real commitment among Tories to do things differently – [...]

Read the full article →

Canada could be first to head into a recession again, Canadian bank says

September 14, 2011 Business

Bank of Nova Scotia economists have said that Canada could be the first industrialized country to succumb to yet another recession. Is this revelation shocking or surprising? I don’t think so.

Read the full article →

Sorry CBC, but we can’t afford you and your antics anymore

September 14, 2011 Media

Not long ago, I wrote a column about protecting our national broadcaster, the CBC. In theory, any country, especially one the size of Canada, needs a national broadcaster. If people have to fund such a broadcaster through licence fees or taxes, so be it. But when such an outfit is owned by the public, the [...]

3 comments Read the full article →

Time for Alberta Tories to vacate the premises

September 7, 2011 Politics

Albertans have had it rough for some time now. They are faced with constant attacks on their livelihood, the oil sands, by radical lefties whose sole purpose in life is to bring Western civilization to its knees – all under the pretext of “protecting the environment”. On a global scale, Alberta’s oil sands barely register [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries