It’s becoming more and more clear that the Andrea Howarth led NDP party is NOT the NDP of the past fighting for social injustice. In fact, I think this NDP’s new direction seems like a deceptive representation of the NDP brand and a…
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Edwin Current: Andrea Howarth and Ontario NDP Only After Political Gain?
It’s becoming more and more clear that the Andrea Howarth led NDP party is NOT the NDP of the past fighting for social injustice. In fact, I think this NDP’s new direction seems like a deceptive representation of the NDP brand and almost right leaning. Some claim Andrea Howarth and Ontario NDP are only
Continue readingEdwin Current: Andrea Howarth and Ontario NDP Only After Political Gain?
It’s becoming more and more clear that the Andrea Howarth led NDP party is NOT the NDP of the past fighting for social injustice. In fact, I think this NDP’s new direction seems like a deceptive representation of the NDP brand and almost right leaning. Some claim Andrea Howarth and Ontario NDP are only
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: There Are Liberals in Rural Alberta: Lets Build With Them, a guest post by Zack Siezmagraff
Zack Siezmagraff, past federal candidate and long time Albertan Liberal, has written the below letter to Ralph Goodale, member of parliament for Wascana, on the issue of building a western fortress of support for Liberals. You can follow Zack on twitte…
Continue readingEdwin Current: Ontario Jobs Anyone? a brief analysis
I think one of the biggest issues in the upcoming provincial election is JOBS! I’ve seen it all over the media and it’s also of personal interest to me as I’m looking for work right now.
So I thought I would do a little analysis of each of the major party’s platform strategies for job creation. Here goes:
PC PARTY
Looking at the PC platform there isn’t much there regarding any plan or strategy towards job creation except for this statement:
“A Tim Hudak government will focus on letting the job creators – not the government – drive new job growth.”
Since when has that ever worked???!! We’ve been seeing unemployment rates soar while businesses post record profits and rich shareholders make gains. It’s obvious that the job creators aren’t going to use any gains towards driving new growth as shareholders are more important to them.
Anyhow, the PC platform goes on about:
- Lowering family tax rates
- Cutting red tape for businesses
- Lowering corporate tax
- Updating the apprenticeship system (however it’s unclear and poorly written as to how or why)
- Raising corporate taxes
- Tax breaks for businesses that provide training for employees
- Tax breaks for businesses that buy Ontario goods
- Freezing tuition rates for post secondary education
- Make Ontario more competitive globally to attract jobs
- Education
- Increased early childhood education
- Summer learning for struggling students
- Changes to teacher’s education programs to increase “hands-on” experience
- Grants for low-mid income family’s post-secondary education
- Relief with loan payment for post-secondary graduates
- Incentives for job creators
- Doubling trade missions to attract global investment in Ontario
- Promoting innovative businesses in Ontario
- “Green” energy incentives
- Lowering taxes on new business investment
- Continued support of apprenticeship programs
- Continue to make Ontario people healthy and healthcare more accessible
- Leadership in Northern Ontario mining jobs and industry
FYI – A recent article proving value in “green” energy.
http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LRVKJ207SXKX01-47415GF9HK7FC3OEN2S2K17J5P
Edwin Current: Ontario Jobs Anyone? a brief analysis
I think one of the biggest issues in the upcoming provincial election is JOBS! I’ve seen it all over the media and it’s also of personal interest to me as I’m looking for work right now. So I thought I would do a little analysis of each of the major
Continue readingEdwin Current: Ontario Jobs Anyone? a brief analysis
I think one of the biggest issues in the upcoming provincial election is JOBS! I’ve seen it all over the media and it’s also of personal interest to me as I’m looking for work right now. So I thought I would do a little analysis of each of the major
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Big Red Machine Beatdown!
Come to PEI, and travel back to a simpler time…
Here’s a fun fact about PEI. If Ontario had the same ratio of MLAs to population, its provincial legislature would consist of 2,492 representatives!
Continue readingVancouver Sun: Canada’s economic miracle exposed
Dan Gardner goes in-depth on what is really a simple story. The Liberals established a solid economic foundation, preparing Canada in the case of hard times … or Conservatives. Both have happened.Once in power, the Conservatives promptly took the cre…
Continue readingHow the Liberals lost Toronto
The Star has a reasonable accounting of why the Liberals lost Toronto. The story is really about how the Liberals lost Canada. It comes down to two things: immigrants were wooed by Conservatives while Liberals ignored them; Liberals don’t know shit abo…
Continue readingEdwin Current: Embrace Innovation People
I think conservatives are just scared that the clean energy act might be successful. Any educated person knows new technology costs start off high and go down as inputs required for output go down and efficiency is gained. This type of efficiency is already happening in Germany.It would truly be
Continue readingEdwin Current: Embrace Innovation People
I think conservatives are just scared that the clean energy act might be successful. Any educated person knows new technology costs start off high and go down as inputs required for output go down and efficiency is gained. This type of efficiency is already happening in Germany.
It would truly be a shame for Ontario to benefit from this project and become world leaders and innovators at producing clean renewable energy. Yah! It makes more sense to keep burning coal and gas until prices skyrocket even more and all the oil and coal are gone.
Quality journalism and editorial at it’s best below in the National Post! Cover one side of the story and barely that.
I seriously can’t believe people buy into this.
Edwin Current: Embrace Innovation People
I think conservatives are just scared that the clean energy act might be successful. Any educated person knows new technology costs start off high and go down as inputs required for output go down and efficiency is gained. This type of efficiency is already happening in Germany. It would truly
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Liberal Math
This Ontario NDP fact check should warm the hearts of economists, accountants and math teachers everywhere: Are Liberals Smarter Than a 5th Grader? The Ontario Liberals put out a release with this erroneous secondary headline: “NDP K-12 plan amounts to just 0.0009% of total education budget.” To calculate this figure, they divided $20 million by […]
Continue readingEdwin Current: Very little changes on the Hudak rampage….I mean campaign
Is Tim Hudak a masochist or something? Every day it seems like the same thing. He finds some convoluted way to try and slam the Liberal campaign with allegations out of nowhere. It’s kind of like he’s trying to win Clue the board game by making accusation after accusation with
Continue readingEdwin Current: Very little changes on the Hudak rampage….I mean campaign
Is Tim Hudak a masochist or something? Every day it seems like the same thing. He finds some convoluted way to try and slam the Liberal campaign with allegations out of nowhere. It’s kind of like he’s trying to win Clue the board game…
Continue readingEdwin Current: Very little changes on the Hudak rampage….I mean campaign
Is Tim Hudak a masochist or something? Every day it seems like the same thing. He finds some convoluted way to try and slam the Liberal campaign with allegations out of nowhere. It’s kind of like he’s trying to win Clue the board game by making accusation after accusation with
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Dalton McGuinty leadership on education praised in The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/21529014Great article in The Economist about education reform and progress around the world, and Ontario is right at the top:“Ontario really is impressive,” enthuses Sir Michael Barber, former head of global education …
Continue readingEdwin Current: Another Promise from NDP Lacking Vision
I’m beginning to think that Hudak’s time wasting, appalling attack and misleading interpretation of the Liberal’s very minor platform idea to help newcomers to Canada has perhaps scared the NDP into this “fairness for everyone” theme in their latest announcements such as their proposed tuition freeze. Horwath vows to freeze Ontario tuition, nix
Continue readingEdwin Current: Another Promise from NDP Lacking Vision
I’m beginning to think that Hudak’s time wasting, appalling attack and misleading interpretation of the Liberal’s very minor platform idea to help newcomers to Canada has perhaps scared the NDP into this “fairness for everyone” theme in …
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