Archive for October, 2005
Save the world–or just Quebec?
The government wants to put tariff on bicycles to protect jobs in Liberal-held Quebec ridings. But is that an environmentally friendly thing to do?
While economists have warned for years that implementing the Kyoto accord will kill jobs, Ottawa insists that fighting global warming requires sacrifices. Of course, those sacrifices are easy to make when it’s […]
Al Franken’s glass house
The left’s answer to Rush Limbaugh made his career calling other people liars.
Is Al Franken a lying liar who tells lies? That’s the $875,000 question being asked of the famous comedian and celebrity host on Air America, the left wing’s answer to talk radio. Franken, author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: […]
The devil’s in the footnotes
The oil-for-food report revealed strange details about Maurice Strong’s dealings with Iraqi agents–and then concealed them again
He met with two of Saddam Hussein’s agents and Hussein’s UN ambassador. He’s been implicated in an indictment for bribery brought against one of them. Still, Canadian Maurice Strong was given a clean bill of health by the Independent […]
Are we stuck with equalization?
A program that guarantees all Canadians equal access to services is required by the Constitution. But no one says it has to be this program
It has been said (so often that most people are likely getting sick of hearing it) that Canada’s equalization program is the glue that binds the country together. One thing about […]
Gaul in the family
The PMO’s story about Michaelle Jean’s French citizenship doesn’t add up
It’s a pity that Michaëlle Jean appears to have gone into hiding in advance of her assuming the highest office in the land on Sept. 27. There are surely those who seek to know more about the mysterious woman that the Prime Minister selected as […]
Setting an example for democratic reform
An Alberta MLA floats the idea of an elected senate at the provincial level
Everyone has their own ideas about how to deal with the growing problem of western alienation. After the Western Standard published its July poll showing that 35.6 per cent of Canadians west of the Manitoba-Ontario border are willing to discuss the idea […]
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