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Admire their talents, not their lives

February 21, 2012 Arts & Entertainment

Whitney Houston joined the tragic group of talented people whose lives were destroyed by their stardom and drugs. When recent pictures of Houston kept popping up after her death, I had to look twice, because that wasn’t the Whitney Houston, not even close, I knew as a teenager when I listened to her music. Clearly, [...]

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‘Online’ and ‘privacy’ are mutually exclusive

February 19, 2012 Politics

Wherever I look these days, there’s talk about Bill C-30, the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act. This bill, in fact, picks up where a previous Liberal government left off (which makes the Liberals look positively ridiculous now that they’re railing against the bill as if they were perfectly innocent in all this). The bill, [...]

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Small-minded Canadian employers keep immigrants down and out

February 12, 2012 Business

It’s that time again to roll out another piece about immigration and how immigrants fare in Canada. You’ll probably find me repeating a lot of things I’ve written over the years, but some things can’t be repeated often enough – especially when certain problems still exist, even though they should have been addressed and fixed [...]

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Alberta Liberals’ no-tuition plan doesn’t address real problems

February 8, 2012 Politics

The Alberta Liberals have promised something that, at first, looks good, but in the final analysis fails to address the real problems. The Liberals want to abolish post-secondary tuition fees if elected. Students and their parents will probably jump on that particular bandwagon (but then they may be held back by the other promise made [...]

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Mezzofanti, a multilingual genius?

February 6, 2012 Society

I have to admit that I had never heard of Giuseppe Mezzofanti before, a 19th-century cardinal in Italy. It was only through Michael Erard’s book Babel No More that I learned of that man’s existence (and myth). I have started reading this highly captivating book, so my observations that follow are based on the first [...]

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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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Bilingualism and multiculturalism don’t come cheap – so let’s stop the nonsense

January 17, 2012 Politics

A study has just put a price tag on Canada’s efforts to ensure “bilingualism” across the country: $2.4 billion a year. Of course, this pales by comparison to the $18-23 billion a year blown on unproductive immigrants, that is, those who enter under the family program or are otherwise useless as functional taxpayers (currently, about [...]

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Canada should focus on immigration from Europe

January 12, 2012 Society

Canada today is what it is thanks to centuries’ worth of immigrants from Europe. Unfortunately, that was changed under Pierre Trudeau and the Liberals in the 1960s, who were determined, like all left-wingers, to foul their own nest.

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Political correctness, a mental disease, will trigger rise in racism and hatred

January 8, 2012 Society

Canadians are up in arms over the recent Richard Smoke case. As reported in this space previously, Smoke, an aboriginal, set upon Sam Gualtieri with the intent to kill him. Smoke beat his victim to within an inch of his life. It borders on a miracle that Gualtieri survived the vicious attack, but he suffered [...]

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