WILL ROAD SAFETY BE WYNNE'S WALKERTON?

Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk reports on the way the province hands out snow-clearing contracts to companies that nickel-and dime us on road safety.
Update: Reading the comments, I remembered this photo op from 11 Dec 2014 on Hwy 401 where it runs through the McRae farm. The snow plow driver put 'er in the median during the night. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, eh?

CHECKING THE BOOKS

Sierra Club latest environmental charity hit by Revenue Canada audits

YOU ARE WELL AND TRULY SCREWED WHEN....

Last month, Ontario Liberal MPP Grant Crack, rose in the Legislature and presented the following drivel: “That, in the opinion of this House, the Ontario Legislative Assembly recognizes that scientists agree that climate change is caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions and poses a serious threat to Ontario's environment, businesses, communities and economy, that scientists and leaders of G8 countries - including Canada - have recognized the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a goal of avoiding more than two degrees of warming, and affirm that this House must take necessary action to reduce emissions, transition to a low carbon economy and combat the effects of climate change.”


This, despite the fact that many residents of Crack's home municipality of North Glengarry, with its disproportionate share of seniors and low wage earners, are no longer able to stay in their homes because of rising electricity costs caused by his Government' s disastrous but "enviro-friendly" Green Energy Act. 


But the real story is this: Ontario's Progressive Conservatives jumped on the "Let's All Ruin Ontario Bandwagon" and voted in solidarity with the Liberals! 


Do a "control f" and enter Lisa M. Thompson.  Then click down to her gag-inducing speech near the bottom of the document and tell me if you will ever vote for the Ontario PCs again.

RENT THE CHICKEN

A new chicken rental company is ruffling some feathers with the city by skirting a bylaw preventing people from keeping backyard hens.  Toronto to hire Chicken Police?

FOR HOCKEY FANS

Top 10 most bizarre NHL playoff moments    
    

REPORT FROM CANADA'S AUDITOR GENERAL

In a hard-hitting new report released Tuesday, auditor general Michael Ferguson paints a searing portrait of the office of the Canadian Forces ombudsman, which investigates complaints against the military and the defence department.

THE TRUTH AND KATHLEEN WYNNE

TORONTO - Premier Kathleen Wynne says she'll co-operate fully with Ontario Provincial Police when they question her later this week about the Liberal party's actions during a Sudbury byelection in February.

PERMISSION TO DESTROY SPACE

Baltimore mayor instructed officers to allow protestors to express themselves and that “we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.”

SCIENTISTS PREDICT BIGGER QUAKE IN NEPAL

Nepal is one of the most earthquake prone regions because it lies at the head on collision between two tectonic plates.

WHO NEEDS EVIDENCE & FACTS?

Premier Wynne and her climate change minister are relying on rhetoric, rather than evidence, to defend cap-and-trade

ON THE PATH TO NOWHERE

Christine Elliott vs Patrick Brown hasn’t revitalized the Ontario Tories. 

REMEMBERING WYNNE

 Wynne, in sharp contrast to McGuinty, seems to be a premier without a clear personal agenda and without a sense of what her own top priority is or how she would like to be remembered when her days as premier are over.   (Warning - article is from the Toronto Star)

EXPOSING THE "INTEGRITY"

The London based think-tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation is today launching a major inquiry into the integrity of the official global surface temperature records.  
      

FAT FINGERS?

Is this what Hillary Clinton and Dalton MacGuinty share?

GREEN IDEOLOGY

Ontario's cap and trade will operate just like the milk marketing board: a quota based cartel system that restricts supply, forces up prices and lets politically favoured interests pocket most of the windfall gains.

SOFTWOOD LUMBER AGREEMENT EXPIRATION

There is general agreement in Canada in the value of maintaining this predictability and stability which has resulted from the softwood lumber agreement,"

OIL DERIVATIVES CAN TAKE DOWN THE SYSTEM

The plunge in oil prices is not good news for big Wall Street banks. “The amount of debt that is carried by the fracking industry at large is about double what the sub-prime was in the real estate fiasco in 2008"

OTTOMAN EMPIRE DECREE 1914

Today, April 24, we remember how exactly 100 years ago the last historic Muslim caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, tried to cleanse its empire of Christian minorities

HUBBLE TELESCOPE PHOTOS

Beauty in the galaxies.

NOTHING BETTER TO DO

Dion introduces bill so passengers can sue airlines for failing to take drink orders in French

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT..

Hole new game as FootGolf kicks new life into struggling golf courses

A FLOCK OF PIGS

Ontario is still grappling with its own debt, projected to be $298.9 billion in 2015-16. Debt interest payments of $11.4 billion alone account for nearly nine per cent of this budget.  The Liberal government believes it can eliminate its $10.9-billion deficit with a scalpel rather than a hatchet

EXPLORING THE WRECK, EREBUS

 Sir John Franklin’s crew abandoned the Erebus in 1848 along with HMS Terror. None of the expedition’s 129 men survived the voyage in search of the Northwest Passage

CANADA'S EMISSIONS TARGET

 Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday that new emissions targets will be released next month. We will not stick taxpayers with the bill. We are not going to bring in carbon taxes.  We will not kill jobs.

TURTLES TRUMP TURBINES

The Prince Edward County Field Naturalists have finally won their appeal against an industrial wind turbine project at Ostrander Point

THE DRAAAAAAAMA OF THE GREENIES

The UN meeting in December 2015 is "the last chance" to avert dangerous climate change.   Again.

ZERO BENEFIT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Cap-and-Trade in Carbon Dioxide Stifles the Economy for no Good Reason

STEYN ON US ELECTION CORRUPTION

The corruption nauseates me, and, if it doesn't nauseate the candidates, then that explains a lot about why nothing happens on any of those other matters.

MORTGAGE RATES DOWN; HOUSE PRICES RISING

Properties in Canada are overvalued by 35 per cent when compared with income and rent.

CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INFORMATION

 Canada fares worse than other countries with universal healthcare systems when it comes to wait times for specialist appointments and treatment

LOOKING OUT FOR OUR CHILDREN...

"But we've been left no choice. Teachers cannot tolerate any further cuts which will decrease their ability to provide the support required for all Ontario students to succeed."

TRIMMING FLIGHTS TO RUSSIA

The reduced traffic at Russia's international airports mirrors the country's growing political isolation and weakened economic clout

PAGING KATHLEEN WYNNE

"We can't spend money that we don't have and if revenues soften slightly that means that we have to control our spending accordingly,"

ALBERTA ELECTION SURPRISES

The Progressive Conservative leader finds himself rewriting the script as he gets squeezed by the left-leaning NDP and by a Wildrose party.

WYNNE'S PRIORITIES

Ontario considers expanded sex-reassignment surgery coverage

WYNNE KEEPS A PROMISE!!

Ontario’s premier said she’d be different from Dalton McGuinty and she has been. Arguably, she’s worse​

REMEMBERING CANADIAN SOLDIERS

The Queen joined three Canadian military regiments in London, to commemorate the regiments' role in a historic First World War battle.

NO SURPRISE, CHIARELLI IS MIA

Protesters gathered outside Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli's office in Ottawa to voice concerns about hydro costs.

STEM CELL THERAPY

A closer look at the startling recovery of Gordie Howe

LAND RECLAMATION THE CHINESE WAY

  China says the island reclamation work  is largely to improve living conditions for people in the area and help with weather forecasting and search and rescue work.

FRANKLIN EXPEDITION WRECK

 Live interactive broadcast from the wreck of Sir John Franklin's ship Erebus, which was discovered only last fall after disappearing in 1848

READ THE FINE PRINT

A $750-million national class-action lawsuit has been filed against Bell Canada over alleged breaches of privacy arising from its recently discontinued target ads program.

TORONTO: OLD CHERRYOKEE WORD MEANING...

...too many sucks.  And that's not even counting this one, this one, or this one.

ASK HUDAK HOW THAT WENT OVER

Alberta Premier Jim Prentice said he would cut the number of agencies, boards and commissions by 25 per cent by the end of 2015-16.

THE TEACHING OF A PERVERTED INDIVIDUALISM

The critics of this Ontario sex-ed. curriculum are right because it is nothing other than an experiment on their children by the children of the sexual revolution.

WHY ALL THE COMMOTION?

 If you can’t even accept that mild limitation on your spending habits it doesn’t speak well of your commitment to fiscal sobriety.

WHEN PIGS FLY

"My hope is that by making these changes we will have a better company, we will have a better and more efficient distribution system and that as a result of that we will see that there's control of hydro rates within the system," Wynne said.

AND, WHAT KIND OF "MARK" WOULD THAT BE?

Draft-dodgers left mark in Canada.

SMOKE PIPE: OLD OJIBWA BARTER SYSTEM

NEED OIL-WAMPUM TO PAY CHIEF, BUT CHIEF SAY OIL MAKE MANITOU ANGRY.
NEED NEW CHIEF.

NAILING PROGRESSIVES IN THE UK

UKIP candidate puts the lefty press in its place.

BUT HIS HAIR IS LOVELY...

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s political slogan has been “building the team and the plan.” So far, his “team” will be forced to be pro-choice and pro-marijuana, and his “plan” is legalizing marijuana, being against fighting terrorism, and placing a price on carbon.

JUST BEING HELPFUL

 Russia lifts ban on S-300 missile system delivery to Iran.   Iran hailed the decision as a step towards "establishing stability and security in the region.

ICE FIELD GROWS AS TEMPERATURE RISES!

There is so much ice, that scientists trying to prove the ice is disappearing are getting stuck in it.

THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

Graphic details heard at sentencing hearing for ex-Ont. deputy education minister and Premier Wynne associate charged with child pornography. 

ABOLISH IT!

 Canada should abolish the Indian Act and reserve system

A TAX GRAB BY ANY OTHER NAME...

Ontarians would do well to question why their Premier has chosen to join a costly and complex cap-and-trade system

HOW ABOUT SYMPLIFYING THE PROCESS AS WELL?

Veterans Affairs hires 100 more case managers to tend to ex-soldiers

SAVE THE TREES....

...Wipe your arse with wheat straw.
The up-and-coming agri-green scam.

WYNNE'S CO2 TAX SCHEME WILL PUT FARMLAND BACK TO TREES

He said about 500 hectares of Class 2 and Class 3 farmland near Fort Fraser were recently purchased by a company that planted pine, spruce and fir on a parcel that once grew fruit trees and alfalfa. “I think it’s absolutely stupid,” he said of the practice. 

Meanwhile, back east, hundreds of thousands of acres of Ontario trees went up in smoke to grow corn for ethanol on marginal land, while solar and wind projects displaced prime farmland. Since the canneries were forced south due to the high cost of regulations, labour and green power, I suppose we'll soon see prime fruit and vegetable land in the Golden Horseshoe being planted to pine. It's all logical, if you're a Liberal.

REAPING THE BENEFITS OF SOLAR POWER

Solar company sues Ontario Power Authority for $9 million. h/t maz2

SURVIVING A NAZI DEATH CAMP

Buchenwald camp survivors mark 70 years since liberation.  More photos.

THIRD PARTY ELECTION ADVERTISING IN ONT.

The unions aren’t breaking the rules, they’re using the lack of rules to their advantage, which won’t change unless the Legislature amends the Election Finances Act.

TORONTO vs. THE COONS

Awwww the unintended consequences of the organic waste green bins and how they are the buffet for racoon's. Pretty much anyone visiting here KNOWS how to deal with them but the city exterminators that trap them must release wildlife within a certain distance of capture according to MNR regulations. Coons on the move so to speak and there is a population explosion of them. Mayor John Tory has declared war but the coons are already winning with 31 million of taxpayer money going for raccoon resistant bins.

STANDING WITH UKRAINE

Canada to send troops to Ukraine in non-combat role.

THE HIGH COST OF CAR INSURANCE

Ontario drivers may have overpaid billions of dollars in insurance because a profit benchmark for the industry is set way too high by Ontario's regulator, a new study has found.

BULLHEADED WYNNE CARRIES ON WITH CAP AND TRADE

Despite the fact that the cap and trade system has been thoroughly discredited, the tax greedy Liberals are desperate for more revenue.

ANGST IN THE RANKS

Floor-crossing MP Eve Adams’s bid to run for the federal Liberals in Toronto is causing a rift between local party supporters and Justin Trudeau’s team

THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES...

...gets awfully uneven when the sexes are in battle.  Maybe it's high time the US Marines start a "Slipper Camp"?

UK GREENIES FOAMING AT THE MOUTH

A Tiny U.K. Company's Stock Is Surging Massively After Announcing a 'World Class' Oil Discovery Near Gatwick Airport

SUPREMES SAY NO

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the appeal upholds western Canadian farmers’ right to marketing freedom.

LEARN SOME DEBATING MANNERS LIZ

Greenie May wants to participate  in this year’s federal election debates; she has JT's support.

TPP: CANADA WANTS IT BOTH WAYS

 Supply management must go if Canada is to be a player in massive Trans-Pacific trade deal

EDUCATION SPENDING IN ONTARIO

Spending on public schools in Ontario has increased dramatically. And more spending hasn’t meant better results.

DEALING WITH THE DEVIL

Kremlin could provide cash-strapped Greeks a credit line and discounted energy supplies as Alexis Tsipras meets with Putin

IN ONE EAR & OUT THE OTHER

Everyone from the Ontario auditor general to their own hired gun economist, has warned the Liberals they have to get spending under control.

MICKEY MOO GOES ROGUE

NEVER trust a bull. 

THE ANSWER IS YES

Is Justin Trudeau that clueless about Canada's economy that he has to bring out Paul Martin, former PM and Finance Minister, the one who actually lost to the Conservatives in January of 2006?

CANADA'S RELIGIONS

 Canadians hanging on to personal faith as organized religion declines: poll

GROSSLY MISLEADING FOR WHAT IT OMITS

As glaciers have been receding in recent years, remains of forest, carbon dated back to the Middle Ages, are being uncovered.

EARTH GROWING GREENER

Dyson says, “as measured from space, the whole earth is growing greener as a result of carbon dioxide

WHEN FACTS GET IN THE WAY

Global Warming ‘Pause’ Continues — Temperature Standstill Lengthens to 18 years 4 months

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG.

Firefighters struggled to put out a blaze on a nuclear submarine as it underwent repairs at a shipyard in Russia.

THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR ABOLITION

A senator makes a base salary of $142,400. Over 45 years that’s $6.4 million, not counting raises.

MONEY GRABBING GREEN GOVERNMENTS

"putting a price on carbon emissions is the most practical way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change"

GOOD DECISION OR NOT?

Tories help balance budget by selling final 73.4 million GM shares from bailout

KARL MARX WOULD BE SO PROUD

If We're Going To Borrow Against The Future, Let's Borrow To Invest
The are much better ways to spend the next $1 Trillion
by Chris Martenson

These brainiac "solutions" come from here, where Richard Duncan explains that if the central bank buys government bonds (debt) and the government (taxpayers) pay low interest, and the central bank gives the interest (profit) back to the government to reduce deficit spending, it's a self-sustaining merry-go-round! "Quantitative Easing, effectively, is debt cancellation." (33:30) 

At least until confidence is lost and the whole thing crashes and burns. Ooops.

I can hear the hogs squealing at the trough already.

JAMMIN' THE BLADES

Get early start to stop wind turbines, anti-turbine group says

SNOREFEST: ON PC LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN

The biggest problem with the Tory campaign so far has been the lack of substance.

LIBERALS' WILTING ROSE

Trudeau is aware of the criticism within his own party about a lack of detailed policies.   That's putting it politely.

ONTARIO KICKSTARTING THE SALE

The merger would be the first step in the partial sale of Hydro One, which the province is banking on to deliver billions of dollars needed to fund Premier Kathleen Wynne’s plan to build new transit lines.

NOT PLAYING THE GREENIE GAME

Canada passed on U.S.-Mexico climate announcement: sources

ANOTHER ENTITLED SENATOR

What Her Nibs said, in essence, was that the bean counters don’t have the necessary smarts to understand the complex life and work of a senator.

MORE NAILS IN THE ONTARIO COFFIN

Wynne is reportedly going to try and convince us that cap-and-trade isn’t a carbon tax.

MARKETING BOARDS & TPP

But U.S. officials say that Canada has been “avoiding the conversation” when it comes to dealing with its supply managed industries, which inflate the price of dairy, eggs and poultry to Canadian consumers.

REFRESHER COURSE: GAS PLANT SCANDAL

The price tag for kiboshing the plants is estimated to be as much as $1.1-billion. The OPP are investigating allegations Liberal staffers deleted e-mails and other documents

THE FARM LAND BUBBLE

"pops"

BIG WIND

TVO has aired this documentary about the wind "industry" in Ontario. Nearly an hour long grab a coffee.

JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU'VE SEEN IT ALL...

$4M Invested by Monsanto to Protect Monarch Butterflies and Restore Milkweed Habitat

EXPOSING THE ROT

Climategate & Investigations of IPCC and CRU: Was There a Pattern of Cover Up?

PANTS ON FIRE

Ontario is seen as an island of economic calm in a turbulent world,” Sousa told the lunch crowd.

OINKERS AT THE TROUGH

At least 40 current, former senators asked to account for questionable expense claims

POT, MEET KETTLE

"It's a company of cheats," Ngwenya said in an interview at his Johannesburg estate.