2018-09-09
Elections are coming up soon in Ontario. Everyone gets a chance to do a re-think on their mayors, councillors, aldermen, reeves, school trustees, etc. You are probably already seeing political signs going up. I’m not going to use this space to promote a particular candidate or political view. Instead, I’m going to write about the […]
Read more2018-01-04
Raising the minimum wage 20% in one shot was not a bright move and it’s going to cause a lot of short term pain before it produces any gain. There is already evidence that the people it’s most intended to help are being hurt as businesses, suddenly facing a 20% labour and employer tax increase […]
Read more2010-02-10
The Liberal premiere of Ontario just prorogued the provincial legislature on a whim, seemingly so he can watch the olympics uninterrupted with annoying distractions… like, say, WORK. Personally, I don’t care much, that’s how parliaments tend to function. It gets prorogued on the whim of the leader. That’s how our flavour of democracy works, although […]
Read more2009-11-14
Right now, in the USA, there is a big debate going on about whether or not it is time to bring some level of socialized medicine to that country. On one side of the debate are the more liberally inclined folk who believe that people shouldn’t die in the street or lose their life savings […]
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