Quick whip of two items so let’s go:Good on the Supreme Court of Canada for ruling the Insite clinic in Vancouver does not run afoul of drug control policies; more technically that it does but to deny it a “constitutional exemption” would be a far wors…
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Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Legacy of sports or legacy of debts?
Heaven help Hamilton on this one. Another round of Pan Am chicken.No sooner did it seem we call Red Hat owner Bob Young’s bluff and offer to do a renovation of Ivor Wynne than it turns out that the proposal as set was for bleachers an…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: $10 million is the new $137 million
Only in Hamilton. When Ontario deregulated power in 2002 (huge mistake still, in my opinion) it was left to the local utilities on what to do with the new local power companies which legally had to incorporate separately from the citi…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Hamilton takes another step out of the Dark Ages
It finally looks like Hamilton is about to get out of the dark ages and allow department stores to be open 24 / 7. It only makes sense. Not that I really care for places like WalMart that much — but why is it that we have to dr…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: When is a scholarship a "forgiveable loan" (or vice versa)?
A very interesting class action lawsuit has been launched here in The Hammer. It involves students of Redeemer University College and their parents who claim they were ripped off by an enticing “forgiveable loan” scheme to offset the costs of the t…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: When settlement groups go astray
Several months back, there was a huge storm when PMS cut off funding for Hamilton based SISO, the Settlement and Integration Services Organization effectively forcing it to close down. At first many felt it was a vendetta that Team Harper had again…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Flooding on purpose
I suppose desperate times call for desperate measures, hence today’s forced flood in rural Manitoba to destroy a hundred or so homes in order to save another 1000 or more. Still one has to wonder why more preventative measures aren’t being taken be…
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