Boisvenu, speaking his mind truthfully, reaps insult

February 3, 2012 Politics

My mind is boggled, so help me out, folks. Poll after poll confirms that Canadians are turned off by politics. In fact, only 15% still pay attention to political news. Hence, fewer and fewer voters bother to turn out on election day in federal, provincial and municipal elections. One thing most people criticize about politicians [...]

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Next NDP leader … Nathan Cullen?

February 2, 2012 Politics

We’re not that far from the NDP leadership vote anymore, and frontrunners are easier to spot now. Thomas Mulcair, once touted as the one to beat, has seriously underperformed. Not only did he fail to show up for a leadership debate recently, he’s also still a French citizen (by choice). Even the late Jack Layton [...]

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Working to 67 isn’t a big deal

February 1, 2012 Politics

Man, Prime Minister Stephen Harper certainly put his finger into one heck of a hornet’s nest when he announced, from a conference in Switzerland, that his government was pondering some drastic changes to the public pension scheme.

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Ian Thomson getting ‘raped’ by Crown and system

January 31, 2012 Society

Ian Thomson, a farmer in Ontario, was forced to make a tough decision in 2010: when a group of thugs attacked his farmhouse with firebombs and shouted, “Are you ready to die?”, Thomson got out his rifle and fired warning shots at his potential killers. They ran off, but Thomson was charged with firearm violations.

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The self-employed need a fairer system

January 31, 2012 Business

With the number of the self-employed growing in Canada, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the government should be out to extract as much money from them as possible. The ones who are “their own boss” are often considered to be members of the club of the idle rich, so it seems alright to take more [...]

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Question for Robert Herjavec: Is ‘Canadian’ a dirty word?

January 28, 2012 Business

Multimillionaire Robert Herjavec is a Canadian success story. The son of Croatian immigrants, himself not born in Canada, made hundreds of million of dollars in the software business after arriving in Canada with just one suitcase, $20 and no English – according to his biography.

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Politicians must think first, then act

January 28, 2012 Politics

It’s a problem we know from most consumer products and even buildings. Some (supposedly) smart designer, engineer or architect creates a fancy product or structure that looks extremely good on paper, but rarely is any thought given to how the product or structure affects, or is used by, ordinary people and consumers.

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Obama all about ‘divide and conquer’

January 25, 2012 Politics

Remember when everyone was trying to keep up with the Joneses? Nowadays, it’s not about pulling even with them, but torturing, clobbering, pounding and eventually killing them. That’s the kind of hostile environment that only left-wingers can create (given their congenital penchant for violence), and Barack Obama seems determined to make this mindset the main [...]

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Can RIM be saved?

January 24, 2012 Business

No matter how successful and rich Steve Jobs was, he never rested on his laurels. There was always the next innovation, the next new great consumer product to be developed. The same can’t be said of Bill Gates or the two now-ex CEOs of RIM, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie.

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Keystone decision proves Obama is anti-American and anti-West

January 22, 2012 Politics

Venezuela is led by a murderous, despotic Marxist who is bosom buddies with one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a physical midget who seeks to build a nuclear bomb for the sole purpose of blasting Israel off the map.

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