EDUCATING DEER

To think this woman has a driver's licence....

CUE THE OUTRAGE

"I decided to make this film to fight against the new wave of Islamophobia in the West. The Western interpretation of Islam is full of violence and terrorism,"

OAKVILLE'S EMBARRASSMENT

An Ontario mayor apologized after comparing the Conservatives' decision to hire veterans as extra security during the federal election campaign that referred to protection measures used by dictators Hitler and Mussolini.

MEDIA PARTY IN TEARS

With the Duffy trial on recess, perhaps we can discuss what really matters to Canadians

THE STINK OF LIBERAL NOMINATIONS

 She says on voting day, 2,065 ballots were cast. However, Liberal election organizers said just 1,780 members registered to vote.

DISSENT WITHIN THE NDP

 New Democrats won’t have the money to finance their own promises in government unless they’re willing to realistically increase revenues and properly tax corporations and the “super-rich”,  says a spokesman for left wing NDP activists

SINKING THE ISLAND

Britain's foreign-born population has almost certainly passed eight million for the first time, according to experts.

THAT'S WHERE MY MONEY GOES

Taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single expenditure for the average Canadian family.

TACKLING THE REFUGEE CRISIS

The "glaring failures" of some European countries to take in refugees are turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave and creating gruesome scenes at borders.

NDP IMMIGRATION PLEDGE

 The NDP has recently begun promising significant increases in the number of senior citizens being sponsored into Canada.

SQUEEZING THE LEMON

Duffy’s a lemon: What are we to do about the economy?

RUSSIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM

A Russian court sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov on Tuesday to 20 years in a high-security penal colony for "terrorist attacks" in Crimea. And the show trials continue...

PLAYING THE CARBON MARKET

The authors say that offsets created under a UN scheme "significantly undermined" efforts to tackle climate change.  The credits may have increased emissions by 600 million tonnes.

NRA SUES SEATTLE

Seattle City Council unanimously approved a "gun violence tax" on sellers of firearms and ammunition, directing proceeds toward violence prevention programs and research beginning in January.

CANADIAN ARAB FEDERATION LOSES APPEAL

The Federal Court found the record was "replete" with articles and statements that supported the minister's characterization of the federation.

MORE CBC CHERRY PICKING

FACT CHECK: CBC "should be ashamed" of biased retirement pensions story

DEPEND ON YOURSELF

Being prepared: a cement house built to withstand flames.

HE CARRIED A RIFLE, PISTOL, AMMO CLIPS AND BOX CUTTER

France train gunman 'dumbfounded' by terrorism allegations.  Geez, what are the chances?

SHOCKER: WYNNE GOV'T HIDING PLANS

The Ontario government has been working on plans for high occupancy toll lanes on three Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area highways since 2013, but has kept most of the details secret.

HARD TIMES IN SAUDI ARABIA

"A black economic cloud is covering the skies of Saudi Arabia," Zamel tweeted last week, warning that oil prices might not recover for five or 10 years.

CLINTON STICKING WITH THE IGNORANCE LINE

 “Did you try to wipe the entire server?” Clinton answered in this order: a) “I have no idea.” b) “What? Like with a cloth or something?” and c) “I don’t know how it works digitally at all.”

GIVE ME BACK MY GUN

A gunman tackled by young Americans on a train between Amsterdam and Paris pleaded with them to hand back his Kalashnikov after they overpowered him, one of the group said.

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX UP 1.3%

The increased cost of filling a grocery cart over the past year was more than enough to offset a drop in the price of putting gas in the car, according to the latest inflation report from Statistics Canada.

H CLINTON'S IRRESPONSIBILITY

Clinton has made an effort to downplay the scandal, shrugging it off as "usual" partisan politics that is being overblown by the media and her political rivals.  But her ostensibly lackadaisical attitude toward the controversy has unnerved some watching from the White House.

ENERGY POLICIES OF NDP AND CONSERVATIVES

Prime Minister Harper:  “A carbon tax is not about reducing emissions. It’s a front. It is about getting revenue for governments that cannot control their spending.”

JACKHAMMERS, LIES, AND REWRITING HISTORY

The federal election campaign is just a few weeks old and already, Canadian voters have suffered through a surfeit of political pandering, grandstanding, misdirection and outright fabrication.

HEALTH CARE IN CANADA IS NOT FREE

Fraser Institute news release:  Health care insurance costs typical Canadian family almost $12,000 per year.

PAY NOW, OR PAY LATER

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) has reached a deal with the provincial government that should avoid any strike.   The head of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) is still talking tough and promising to take their work-to-rule to “stage two” when classes return.

RENEWED FIGHTING IN UKRAINE

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin have both called emergency war councils since Aug. 4, as the ceasefire and diplomacy have further broken down.

DRONE WARS

U.S. government, police working on counter-drone system

ARGUING WITH LIBERALS

Understand one simple thing about "socialism" "leftism" "liberalism" "communism" or whatever you want to call it: It is nothing more than the lazy of society demanding the hard working and industrious be their slaves.

IPCC CLAIMS VERSUS REALITY

Dr. Tim Ball ;  Every day we hear that storms of greater intensity than ever before are occurring, and it will get worse because of global warming. These claims contradict the current and historic evidence

CLIMATE CRAZINESS OF THE WEEK

James Hansen is using children to sue US government over climate

TRUDEAU HYPOCRACY

Why isn’t Trudeau calling for the resignation of Pat Sorbara, chief of staff to Premier Kathleen Wynne?  Sorbara is still under investigation into allegations she broke the law in the run-up to the Sudbury byelection.

 

18 PER CENT TRUSTWORTHINESS RATING

One thing journalists never like to be reminded of -- especially during a federal election campaign -- is that the public doesn’t trust us.

TPP AUTO PARTS NEGOTIATIONS

The three NAFTA countries are trying to settle a question with potential consequences for their respective manufacturing sectors: What portion of an auto part, or a car, must originate in this proposed trade zone to avoid tariffs?

MULCAIR'S MATH CHALLENGE

Why the numbers behind the NDP’s minimum wage plan don’t add up

THE DESPERATION OF MIGRANTS

More than three times as many migrants were tracked entering the European Union by irregular means last month than a year ago, official data showed on Tuesday, many of them landing on Greek islands after fleeing conflict in Syria.

MILD RECESSION AND RECOVERY FOR CANADA

“We’re going to get two quarters of negative growth back to back in Canada, so technically that would be a recession,”

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN

Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) president Sam Hammond told the 610-odd “brothers and sisters” at their annual assembly Monday that in addition to their threatened work-to-rule campaign this fall, they will be attempting to “Heave Steve.”

SURE JUSTIN, THAT'LL WORK

He said a Liberal government would invest $200 million a year to develop clean technologies in forestry, fisheries, mining, energy and farming.

COOL ROBOTS

Boston Dynamics robots.  Bet ya can't watch just one video.

CANADA'S MEDIA GUILD HYPOCRACY

While Guild members are objectively reporting on the federal election, their union is campaigning in it.

DALTON'S LEGACY

Ontario teachers are bleating about regulation 274, claiming that it has been the worst thing to happen to teacher hiring in Ontario in the past three years.

WYNNE KNOWS BEST

Her provincial track record proves it....right?

USING RRSP FUNDS FOR HOUSING

When a participant doesn’t make the yearly repayment to the RRSP, CRA treats that amount as taxable income.  Don't you just hate it when you're expected to follow the rules?

TSX LOSERS & WINNERS

Energy stocks, banks lead TSX lower on economic concerns

THE CROWD IN THE MIDDLE

Canada no longer has a federal party of the left, centre and right, supplemented by the Greens off on the fringe. There are three centrist parties, with slightly different tones

VIOLENCE PREDICTED IN UKRAINE

"There is a lot at stake. If both parties in the conflict don't return to the peace process, a new military escalation spiral could be triggered at any time."

ONLINE HEALTH CARE

Telehealth providers are reporting tremendous growth. American Well, for instance, pegs its growth at 1,100 percent in 2014 over 2013 and is going strong in 2015

APPALLING LIBERAL INCOMPETENCE

Ontario’s financially disastrous blunder into green energy doesn’t bode well for Premier Kathleen Wynne’s looming pension plan

MORONIC ECONOMIC POLICIES

Mulcair believes Canada can have sustainable growth without pipelines and the energy sector.  Justin Trudeau promised to grow the economy “not from the top down the way Mr. Harper wants to, but from the heart outwards.”

THE INNOCENCE OF TERRORISTS

Two political parties in the Middle East designated as terror groups by Canada predict the Islamic State movement won't survive and question why they're blacklisted when co-operation could defeat the common enemy.

WYNNE'S ELECTRICITY RATES DISASTER

Ontario was paid $29.1 million for those exports. Unfortunately, it cost provincial ratepayers $249.9 million to produce that same electricity.  Stock up on blankets, candles, and stovewood.

ENVIRONMENTAL HYSTERIA IN PERSPECTIVE

Dr. Tim Ball:  Environmental extremism is essentially a first world problem; it is a self –inflicted wound that most could not parry because of the way the entire exercise was exploited and manipulated to silence opposition.

THE SHOE FITS

 Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin brushed off criticism on Thursday that her court, which has clashed with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, has been too activist.

RUSSIA OPPOSES MISSILE SHIELD PLAN

The latest spat threatens to further worsen a deep chill in ties between Moscow and Washington, now at their lowest point since the Cold War because of the conflict in Ukraine.

ARKANSAS INTEGRITY

"It is apparent that after the recent revelations on the actions of Planned Parenthood, that this organization does not represent the values of the people of our state and Arkansas is better served by terminating any and all existing contracts with them," Hutchinson, a Republican, said in a statement.

JUDGED BY THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

...among some campaign officials and candidates, there is a belief that Wynne is as much a hindrance as a help elsewhere – including not just rural and small-town ridings, where they are in tough regardless, but also suburban battlegrounds

LICENCE SUSPENSION & INSURANCE RATES

MTO does not actively notify insurance companies,” says Ontario Ministry of Transportation spokesman. “But as authorized requesters, insurance companies have access to obtain a three-year driver’s abstract.”

PAYDAY LOANS

There are over 1,400 outlets across the country. They primarily target people with low to moderate income and no assets.

IMPACT OF LOWER OIL PRICES

It’s been almost one year since the oil price collapse began in September 2014. OPEC’s subsequent decision not to cut production at their Nov. 27, 2014, meeting sent prices spiralling even lower. And now a further decline is at hand. What is the impact?

SAFETY OF PIPELINE VS RAIL TRANSPORT

According to the report by the Fraser Institute released Thursday, the rate of incidents or accidents per million barrels of transported crude is 4 1/2 times higher for rail than for pipelines.

OIL PRICE ROUT NOWHERE NEAR DONE

If crude’s slump back to a six-year low looks bad, it’s even worse when you reflect that summer is supposed to be peak season for oil.  Canadian heavy crude fell to $20 below Texas prices this week, a seven-year low that’s going to make more wells in Alberta too expensive to run.

 

 

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT

$267,309 tax-free: Chief of 90-member B.C. First Nation may be Canada’s highest paid politician

WHAT TUNE DOES THIS WILDROSE CANDIDATE SING?

Is it really the "let's help this Suncor Engineer send a strong message to the anti-oilsands NDP" song,


or...


the "climate change is happening and carbon tax is the answer" favourite that his Suncor bosses sing.

A DISGRACE TO THE PROFESSION

Steyn's new book is about the perversion of science and the damage done by the climate wars in which Mann and his hockey stick graph have played such an egregious part.

LEFTIES KNOW BEST

When asked how much this pension program will cost to administer, Wynne simply shrugged and said she didn't know.

WYNNE'S "HELP"

Hard to make the new Ontario pension plan look like anything but an unneeded tax

THE ULTIMATE STUMBLING BLOCK FOR THE EURO

Currencies that have endured, like the pound sterling and the dollar, exist in sovereign states where financial decisions are closely tied to policymaking.

OIL INVESTMENT AT ODDS WITH THE BIG FELLA

In June, Pope Francis  urged immediate action to save the planet from the effects of climate change, declaring that the use of "highly polluting fossil fuels needs to be progressively replaced without delay."  But some of the largest American Catholic organizations have millions of dollars invested in energy companies

THE WINDS OF WAR?

Preparing for the worst:  Are Russian and NATO military exercises making war in Europe more likely?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"NOT ME" SAYS VLAD

The European Union says escalating attacks on government-controlled areas in eastern Ukraine violate a February peace deal with pro-Russia separatists.   Relations between Russia and the West have been in crisis since Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine last year.  Around 7,000 people have been killed since the Ukrainian conflict started and more than one million people have been displaced.

 

EXPOSING THE GREEN ENERGY SCAM

Renewable energy is raising hackles in rural Ontario — and across Canada.   h/t SDA

PIPELINES ENDANGER CLIMATE, RIGHT TOM?

That's the second time in less than a month Mulcair has been quick to admit he is ready to write off the pipeline should he become prime minister

THE KNOTHEADED PREMIER

Wynne calls proposed Ontario pension plan ‘right thing to do’  Others see it differently.

HIDING THE DATA AT THE EPA

The USA president reveals his plan to reduce greenhouse gases to save us from an apocalyptic atmosphere....all this for 0.01 degrees Celsius

SPHINCTER PUCKERING IN USA GOV'T

A federal lawsuit moving forward in Manhattan could open the floodgates to tightly held government secrets about foreign connections to the 9/11 attacks 

REMEMBERING HMS HOOD

A research team has successfully recovered the bell of the battle-cruiser HMS Hood, sunk in 1941 during World War II.

MEDIA PARTY STAYS ON SCRIPT

“How significant is a $2.9-billion change in an $890-billion budget?” The answer is that it amounts to less than one-third of 1 per cent.

TOM'S NUMBNUTS RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT POLICY

“We’re in favour of creating markets for our natural resources, we’re in favour of developing them, but that has to be done sustainably,” Mr. Mulcair told reporters

PATRONIZING TWADDLE

What is Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne thinking? I cannot recall a more partisan, ideologically driven, and self-deluded politician.

THE CONTINUING SAGA...

The Canadian company involved in the controversy-plagued Keystone XL pipeline project has begun planning its response to an anticipated rejection of the project

3 CHEERS FOR AUSTERITY, OR....

...you know you're in trouble when...

SNOW TIRES OPTIONAL

Pocket-sized personal transporters could soon be seen on the streets of Tokyo

NDP VS CONSERVATIVE BUDGET BALANCING

Harper gov’t fiscal record vs Notley NDP’s $120 million tax increase

TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP LOGJAM

Canada, Mexico ‎drawn into deal-breaking auto talks in Trans-Pacific negotiations

CRITICIZED FOR RESCUING CHRISTIANS

Most endangered are the Christians of Syria. Four years ago they numbered about 1.1 million. By now 700,000 have fled. Many of those remaining in country are caught either under radical Islamist rule or in the crossfire between factions

CRACKS OF DOOM

If Justin Trudeau becomes prime minister, backed by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, it's not going to be pretty, Canada

THE NORTH POLE HAS NEVER BEEN SO SOUGHT AFTER

Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark and Norway are working with the UN to define jurisdictional boundaries in the Arctic, which is thought to hold as much as a quarter of the planet's undiscovered oil and gas.

FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL RELATIONS

“They said, ‘You will have your best relations with the premiers who are doing a good job in their own jurisdiction.’ ”

AIR CANADA: Lacking the courage of its convictions..

...will carry the hunter$...but not the hunted.
h/t WillyG

LET THE WHINING BEGIN

Kathleen Wynne wasted no time Sunday flexing Ontario's electoral muscle, wading into the federal election on Day 1 of the marathon campaign to call for the defeat of Stephen Harper's Conservative government.

DON'T WORRY,

Be سعيد

TRANSCANADA CORP LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVES

TransCanada Corp could nix plan for Quebec export terminal linked to Energy East pipeline

CHANGES TO UCCB PROGRAM

What you need to know about the Universal Child Care Benefit

MORE SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA & UKRAINE

The measures are meant to compel Russia to comply with peacekeeping commitments signed this year in Minsk that would end fighting in eastern Ukraine

PUTIN POLISHING HIS HALO

  Kremlin critic Litvinenko, 43, died three weeks after drinking green tea laced with radioactive polonium-210.   Polonium is rare and nearly exclusively made in Russia, which has a history of political assassinations

TPP STICKING POINTS UNCHANGED

Pacific Rim trade ministers failed to clinch a deal on Friday to free up trade between a dozen nations after a dispute flared up over auto trade between Japan and North America, New Zealand dug in over dairy trade and no agreement was reached on monopoly periods for next-generation drugs.