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I keep hearing people blaming the Liberals about soaring energy costs.  The reality is that energy prices are going up everywhere around the globe and the last Ontario Conservative government failed at privatizing the industry and created a mess of Ontario Hydro.  It’s an action that should have never happened

I keep hearing people blaming the Liberals about soaring energy costs.  The reality is that energy prices are going up everywhere around the globe and the last Ontario Conservative government failed at privatizing the industry and created a mess o…

Here’s a quote from a self-expressed libertarian defense. What makes me a small-’l’ libertarian isn’t that I believe it’s impossible—or easy—to reconfigure human brains using sufficiently advanced technology, or any other method. What makes me a libertarian is that the prospect of having that reconfiguration done by the same system

R. v. Forde, 2011 ONCA 592 is a clear statement that the Castle Doctrine applies in Ontario. The Court cites Cardozo J. in People v. Tomlins, 213 NY 240 (1914), at pp. 243:It is not now, and never has been the law that a man assailed in his own dwellin…

All of my adult life, I have had nothing but absolute contempt for scabs, or, as these more sensitive times refer them, ‘replacement workers’. Whether crossing a picket line to work inside an operation that has been struck to pick up some extra cash, …

So new statistics demonstrate what we on the left have been saying for years now – while countries like the United States have more wealth than they have ever had before, poverty is getting worse every year. Nearly fifty million Americans are now livin…

“In Canada, Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition (French: L’Opposition Loyale de Sa Majesté),[1] commonly known as the Official Opposition, is usually the largest parliamentary opposition party in the House of Commons or a provincial legislative assembly th…

I was going to write about rising rates of poverty and inequality in Canada and the US today, but I came across this good news story. It’s a gray day, so why not focus on the light? The simple technology uses a liter of distilled water in a plastic …

You know when the phone rings and you answer the phone and there’s nobody on the phone so you say ‘hello?’ and wait for someone to answer you on the phone, even though they rang you and should be waiting … Continue reading →

I see it’s time once again to dust off this “Fable for Our Time” by American humourist James Thurber: Not so very long ago there was a very fine gander. He was strong and smooth and beautiful and he…

This video is pretty horrifying. What I find most discomforting is the McDonald’s employee filming the incident, all the while laughing. I’d say the victim has a very good, if not sure bet, civil case against McDonald’s, especially considering the cond…

Left-handed that is.