Don Drummond will propose eliminating full day kindergarden
I will get to some evidence as to why killing the still-not-completely-implemented full day kindergarden in english public school boards is a really bad idea. I swear. But first, some…
I will get to some evidence as to why killing the still-not-completely-implemented full day kindergarden in english public school boards is a really bad idea. I swear. But first, some…
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ biennial guide to Canadian mining taxation, Digging Deeper, features a comparative summary of royalties, mining taxes and corporate taxes for a hypothetical gold mine. This approach differs from the…
Per cents are not people. Per cents don’t hold jobs, buy products or pay taxes. People do. Yet it seems that most of the conversation about the 2011 census report…
This table displays the mining taxes and royalties paid for minerals – including coal, but excluding oil and gas – to Canada’s major mining jurisdictions in 2010. (The excluded jurisdictions…
CANADIAN POLITICS: ONTARIO PREMIER’S SPEECH DISRUPTED: What does a politician have to endure these days ? Just for the simple act of bragging in front of one’s numerous rich friends…
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper leads a high-powered Team Corporate Canada to China, there’s justifiable speculation that the PM will not question China’s appalling human rights record. At least…
I have an opinion piece out on the City of Ottawa’s universal, student transit pass–also known as “the U-Pass.” Points raised in the op-ed include the following: -U-Pass programs exist…
Alberta is generally considered to be Canada’s pollution champion. And it deserves the honour. With 11 per cent of the country’s population it contributes 34 per cent of the country’s…
View this document on Scribd Filed under: Canadian Politics, Liberal Party of Canada, Ontario Tagged: Durham, Durham Region, Liberal, Liberal Party, Liberal Party of Canada, Oshawa, Whitby, Whitby-Oshawa Federal Liberal…
How did the for-profit labs become the sole providers of laboratory services for all non-hospital patients in Ontario? These patients, often called community patients, usually need a lab test that…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Jackson notes that the IMF is telling countries in Canada’s position to hold off on gratuitous austerity. And Trish Hennessy wonders…
Even though I have not met the CEO of the Sault Hospital in northern Ontario I expect he is an honorable person with a difficult task: to justify the unjustifiable.…
Rob Ford! That’s who! TORONTO – Mayor Rob Ford came out swinging at left-leaning councillors Tuesday. “These people are all two steps left of Joe Stalin,” Ford told AM 640…
Last week, Ontario’s Ministry of Finance released the Ontario Economic Accounts for the third quarter of 2011. As The Globe reported, business investment was less than impressive: . . .…
CANADIAN LABOUR LONDON ONTARIO: COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR LOCKED OUT CATERPILLAR WORKERS: Time ticks on until this Saturday’s mass demonstration in solidarity with workers at the Electro-Motive Diesel plant in London…
Favourite quotes: “Polls can impede our vision of the future.“ Laurier’s Definition of Liberalism: “I am a Liberal. I am one of these who think that everywhere, in human things,…
Hot: Beards: The hottest accessory at the Tom Mulcair after-party was a beard. If you are showing solidarity with your leadership or simply waiting in the forest for the revolution…
It’s late but here’s my week’s contribution to Wolf Lake Wednesday. Friends of Temagami, Earthroots and no doubt a bunch of other organizations and individuals are trying to pressure the…
Kyle Peterson (Past candidate, Newmarket-Aurora.) Although I had been to umpteen LPC events since I first joined the Liberal Party in September 1990 at the campus of the University of…