Chris Selley writes a column for the National Post this week about mandatory life jackets, coming soon to a lake near you.He brings up a story in the Toronto Star two years ago, suggesting that mandatory life jackets might not be a bad thing, given the…
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Leftist Jab: The Gazette’s Ian MacDonald Writes a Love Letter to Jim Flaherty
The Montreal Gazette’s L. Ian MacDonald’s newest column is somewhere between tawdry financial porn and steamy fiscal erotica. The apple of his eye: Jim Flaherty. He begins by a tantalizing thought that Jim Flaherty refused, yes refused, to be pick…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: JP Morgan Fined $153.6M For Doing God’s Work
It is becoming increasingly evident that the so-called “Economic Crisis” was carefully engineered to force governments to tear down their welfare states.The 153.6 million fine for JP Morgan is a drop in the bucket, when we look at the billions of dolla…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
A variety of content for your weekend reading.- The Lethbridge Herald nicely points out who figures to have a problem with Stephen Harper’s decision to have the Canadian public pay tens of thousands of dollars to send him to Game 4 of the Stanley Cup F…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.- The Star skewers the Cons’ insistence on pushing ahead with bad budget choices:As the Star argued during the election, Canada needs progressive economic vision in the form of strategic investments in sc…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Rerun Season
For the first time in a long time, we have a budget that can be judged on its content, rather than its electoral implications.So while the opportunity now exists to read the actual document without worrying about who will vote for and against it, there…
Continue readingLPC Keeps Focus on Jobs, Economy
This is good to see. Team Red isn’t being distracted by vote subsidies and other issues nobody cares about.
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Budget Shows Profound Complacency: No Plan for Jobs, No Plan for the Deficit, No Plan for Poverty, No Plan for Sustai…
Continue readingRedBedHead: The Tories’ Bankrupt Brains
“I see, said the blind man to the deaf dog, who wasn’t listening anyway” is a phrase that comes to mind reading reports of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s press conference on the economy. Generally speaking we expect governments to do more to s…
Continue readingRight of Center Ice: Scarier of Two Evils
What’s worse than a “tax and spend” liberal? How about a tax-cut and spend Conservative! Prisons, Planes, and Post-signs – these are the things the Canadian taxpayer is going to be paying for in the next budget. And, as usual, there’s got to be a tax out there that needs
Continue readingTime Heals All Wounds
Today, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney spoke in Windsor on the state of Canada’s economy and made his predictions for the future. The outlook seems that the economy will remain at a crawl, for the time being, with gradual growth.
Still recovering …
Continue readingJacked Up: Harper, Baird, Flaherty, EI and the Economy.
I’ll start with two separate paragraphs, from two separate articles (The first from the Ottawa Citizen, the second from the Globe and Mail: Baird falsely portrayed the Liberal scheme for a 360-hour standard as one that would require a massive payroll tax. The Liberals said they would fund the move
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