I know there’s a lot of anger over what was said about the Canadian military. I can understand the anger, and know why what they said is wrong, but another take may be, why bother with what they say? Who cares if some late night bozos spouted off? Why must we act so indignant? This [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
Furor over Fox news
March 24, 2009An idea whose time is coming
March 3, 2009An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885), ‘Histoire d’un crime,’ 1852 I saw this quote and really liked it. The first ”idea” I thought of when I read this is proportional representation. I’m hoping that this idea will have it’s time. I believe [...]
Tariffs versus “Buy American”
February 5, 2009Obviously I need to learn more about economics. With all the talk about America starting trade wars with their buy American proposals, I get slightly confused. If the government (not a private corporation) wants to put rules in place so that their money is spent on American items, doesn’t that seem just? American taxpayer money [...]
The GST
January 25, 2009So, the Harper government is considering further cuts on the GST. Are they seriously thinking of doing this?! Now even taxpayer federations are saying that their previous tax cuts to the GST was a bad idea (see this article from CTV.ca ) That 12-14 billion might be pretty useful right about now. To think that they [...]
Nortel’s woes
January 22, 2009Living in Ottawa and working in the high tech sector, it’s hard to not be affected in some way by Nortel. There are many ex-Nortel people out there, and everyone has some story about how they worked, or almost worked there. Now, with the bankruptcy protection, recently laid-off workers and pensioners are now worried about [...]
Harper’s adjustment of the truth
December 4, 2008Despite dissing Dion in the last post, I still wanted to put down Harper’s rhetoric. The Coalition is within it’s rights to do what it wants to do. It is not “illegitamate” as Harper would like you to believe. This blogger sums it up pretty well: http://jepaikin.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/its-demo-crazy/?referer=sphere_related_content/
Attack on Canadian Democracy
December 3, 2008With the current mess that is Canadian politics, I hope this attack on the public funds for political parties is not overlooked. If this were to go through, we could end up with an American style 2 party system, with the Corporations who donate to the parties pulling the strings. Of course, the Conservatives (and [...]
Canadian Government Mess
December 2, 2008Well, look where we are now. The government needs to talk to the Governer-General (representative of the Queen of England, for all you American readers) to decide what to do with this. Darth Harper has made it far too hard for the opposition parties to accept the budget, as he attempts to rip out their [...]
Democracy needs to be preserved…
September 16, 2008An excellent article from Thomas Axworthy, the chair of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen’s University in the Toronto Star. It really talks about democracy, and how we need to really be open to more view points and accepting of new politcal parties. There’s a really good quote which talks about how [...]
Green Party??
September 16, 2008A follow-on from my last post about the incumbant Baird, I face a quandary about who to pick. I normally would choose the Liberals as they would normally have the first chance to unseat Baird. But there was some back and forth about their selection for the riding, with former Mayor Bob Chiarelli finally deciding [...]
