PAYING TO BE HEARD IN ONTARIO

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals have been on a full-court press to raise money from wealthy donors even as they promise tough new rules on campaign finance.

Corporations and lobbyists who regularly do business with government say the party has stepped up pressure tactics in recent months – telling them they must attend fundraisers to get a hearing on their issues – and they are getting fed up with the shakedown.

 

HIGHER EDUCATION:A CORRUPT, MORALLY BANKRUPT SECTOR

A system that piles debt on students in exchange for a marginal or even zero-return on their investment is morally and financially bankrupt.

Every once in a while you run across an insider's narrative of a corrupt, morally bankrupt sector that absolutely nails the sector's terminal rot. Here is that nails-it narrative for higher education.

 

 

FAILING TO REDUCE AMERICA'S RED TAPE BURDEN

While the president directed the agencies to repeal, modify, or remove rules that contributed unnecessarily to the red tape burden of businesses, government bureaucrats responded by expanding some regulations while failing to remove or modify other burdensome rules.  In fact, the administration's efforts to reduce red tape resulted in a $16 billion increase in costs.

 

 

HOW ISIS SPINS ITS WEB OF DEATH

The British Daily Mail reported: “Brussels slaughter ‘just a taste’ of what is coming, warns ISIS chief executioner in chilling new video threatening further attacks on the West.”  

 Belgian authorities just cannot cope with the most serious security threat since the Second World War. Belgium’s various police forces are understaffed and there is lack of communication between them. There are no-go areas in Brussels where well-armed Moroccan criminals dominate the neighborhood. Radical Muslims and terrorists can also count on the solidarity of fellow Muslims in the neighborhood.

 

TIME TO TAKE DOWN SOROS

Soros, the billionaire speculator, is the preeminent funder of the activist Left in America, which means he is the Number One funder of the domestic terrorism that is part and parcel of the Left. 

If the tables were turned and a conservative billionaire were to lead and finance a violent organized insurgency against his political adversaries how long would it take before the authorities took action against him? 

 

JOE BIDEN, FOOL

Vice President Joe Biden said at this morning's Easter Prayer Breakfast that while there's "a lot of fear and unease around the world" people should realize "we all practice the same basic faith but different faiths." Introducing President Obama, Biden said he'd "never been with anyone who has more character than this man, and has faith."

 

GIVE UNTO CAESAR THAT WHICH IS CAESAR'S...

...but if he's going to just piss it away, you may as well beat him to it!

BAN KI MOON LECTURING AGAIN

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has surfaced, once again to lecture the Anglosphere and the Western world about its “duties” to hurriedly absorb nearly half a million more Syrian migrants. The war-torn country’s surrounding nations, he argues, have done the heavy lifting already. Now the U.N. chief wants you and your communities to do more.

 

OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE THAT RENEWABLES ARE USELESS

Al Gore has a problem. He seems to want people to believe that only climate skeptics oppose renewables. The truth is, a small but growing number of prominent greens, openly acknowledge that renewables in their current form are not a scalable replacement for fossil fuels.

 

THIRTEEN PERCENT RETURN IN 2015

The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, one of the world's biggest infrastructure investors, achieved a 13 percent rate of return on its investments in 2015.  Ontario Teachers' pioneered a move by Canadian pension funds to invest directly in private companies, infrastructure and real estate internationally as an alternative to Canadian equities and government bonds.

 

RUSSIA SHIPPING MORE TO SYRIA THAN REMOVING

When Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of most of Russia's military contingent from Syria there was an expectation that the Yauza, a Russian naval icebreaker and one of the mission's main supply vessels, would return home to its Arctic Ocean port.

Instead, three days after Putin's March 14 declaration, the Yauza, left the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk for Tartous, Russia's naval facility in Syria.

Whatever it was carrying was heavy; it sat so low in the water that its load line was barely visible.

 

A DANGEROUSLY DELUDED POPE

Pope Francis, it seems, can't stop squandering whatever little true moral capital he has left. Last week the ageing pontiff, who is much given to periodic bouts of showboating, decided to drop to his knees before several recent Muslim migrants to Europe (call them "refugees," if you will) from North Africa and the Middle East. He then proceeded to wash the asylum seekers' feet with holy water before wiping them clean and kissing them. A cringe-worthy spectacle that was.

 

WITCH HUNT OF CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS

Sixteen attorneys general have banded together to go after oil companies and utilities who they claim have committed fraud by downplaying the idea of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. They are going to investigate claims that ExxonMobile and other fossil fuel companies knew about the dangerous effects of global warming and hid the facts from the public.

 

 

DEMANDING DOCUMENTS ABOUT OBAMACARE FUNDING

"We've been trying to get answers since last June, but HHS simply will not cooperate," Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said in a joint statement with Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich. "The administration funneled $1.3 billion last year into the Basic Health Program without a congressional appropriation — a clear violation of the law."

 

POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING

Canadians should take a moment to reflect on a fundamental truth concerning government spending: Of all the expenditures governments make on our behalf, infrastructure spending is probably the most susceptible to political corruption and manipulation for partisan political purposes.

IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A FREE GIFT

Canada's Defence Minister, Mr. Sajjan received severance pay from the Canadian Armed Forces when he quit the reserve force Oct. 21, two days after the federal election.  He is one of several MPs to receive such severance.
“We always find it curious when there are jobs where there is severance offered for voluntarily leaving,” Aaron Wudrick, the president of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

“These are public dollars. Severance is supposed to be for situations where an individual faces a sudden loss of employment—you know, against their own will. It is not supposed to be a free gift to people who choose to leave their jobs.”

 

ON LIBERALS CALL IT FUNDRAISING. WE CALL IT A SHAKEDOWN

One of the banks that ran the lucrative privatization of Hydro One promoted a $7,500-per-person fundraiser for the two Ontario provincial cabinet ministers in charge of the sale, the event appears to have raised $165,000.00 for the Ontario Liberals.

At least 22 people agreed to attend, including executives representing other members of the Hydro One syndicate: RBC, TD, CIBC, Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Raymond James. One e-mail makes explicit reference to the Hydro One IPO.

Collectively, banks in the syndicate made nearly $29.3-million from the Hydro One privatization.

 

 

WYNNE'S SOCIALIST UTOPIA

There appears to be mounting public support in Ontario for a guaranteed minimum income to combat poverty, according to a new poll. The scheme would guarantee a basic living income regardless of a recipient's employment status.

 

TODAY'S SESAME STREET BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER "B"

Bunkers, bullion, bullets, bully-beef, beans, and bottled water.
“They are manufacturing earnings through buybacks or cost-cutting. But it’s not real growth that we’re seeing at a fundamental level.”

LATEST OPPORTUNISTIC MONEY MAKER: CLIMATE INSURANCE

In December, negotiators at the Paris climate meeting adopted insurance as an instrument to aid climate adaptation. Earlier in the year, the leaders of the G7 pledged to bring climate insurance to 400 million uninsured individuals in poor countries by 2020.

 

TOUGHER TO KEEP THE GREEN HYSTERIA AT A FEVER PITCH

Michael Mann, inventor of the climate Hockey Stick, is dismayed that despite the best efforts of Democrat candidates to promote climate issues, nobody seems to be interested.

 

 

OBAMA TWISTS FAILURE INTO SUCCESS

President Obama’s deep-seated narcissism and overweening self-regard is old news to objective observers of his administration. The most recent example of this comes in the Atlantic’s wordy apologia for Obama’s disastrous foreign policy, which focuses on the President’s feckless decision to retreat from his “red line” for direct American intervention in the Syrian civil war. That Obama, to the shock of allies and even his own inner circle backed down, is well known. The Atlantic’s revelation that he is “Very proud of that moment” and indeed considers it courageous act, demonstrates just how warped is Obama’s psyche. 

 

THE EMPRESS MICHELLE, AMERICA'S FOOD SCOLD

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service issued a proposed rule Monday to codify parts of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was championed by Mrs. Obama.

The regulation would punish schools and state departments with fines for “egregious or persistent disregard” for the lunch rules that imposed sodium and calorie limits and banned white grains.

 

THE FALLOUT FROM OBAMACARE

When President Obama stages a photo op to publicize signing a measure he claims will “help” American workers, you can be almost certain that “unintended consequences” will outweigh any intended benefits.  Lacking even an elementary understanding of how a market economy works, he only makes things worse.

 

NOTLEY'S UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

Enmax terminated its power purchase arrangement (PPA) for the Battle River coal-fired power plant in January on the basis that it was no longer profitable as a result of low power prices and changes in law to hike the carbon levy on heavy carbon emitters.

Since then, TransCanada, with partner AltaGas Pipelines, and Capital Power have also terminated their PPAs for electricity from coal-fired power plants — all relying on a clause in the arrangements that enables them to get out of them if the government makes a change in law to render them “more unprofitable.”

 

KILLER'S IPHONE UNLOCKED

The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday it had succeeded in unlocking an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters and dropped its legal case against Apple, ending a high-stakes legal battle but leaving the broader struggle over encryption unresolved.

 

CORPORATE & UNION CONTRIBUTIONS TO ONTARIO LIBERALS

The unsavoury spectacle of Ontario’s politicians supplicating big business and big labour for events such as the Heritage Dinner is only a small piece of the fundraising puzzle glimpsed by the public. Beyond the showy hobnobbing, shadowy appeals by cabinet ministers for corporate money are the untold story at Queen’s Park.  In Ontario, the Wild West of fundraising, cabinet ministers are assigned secret targets as high as $500,000 a year.

Getting face time with British Columbia Premier Clark costs as well.

 

 

 

 

 

BUNGLING, ARROGANCE & IGNORANCE FROM AB NDP

The Rebel has a copy of a document called “Alberta Farm Safety Program Delivery Model & Anticipated Reaction to the Proposed Changes”. It reveals that bureaucrats in Forestry and Agriculture anticipated a bad reaction from farmers and knew their partners in the Jobs Ministry did not have the knowledge of rural “culture” to deal with an onslaught of panicked farmers.

 

LIBERAL HYPOCRACY ON DISPLAY

Saudi Arabia has “bought the silence” of Western countries by awarding them lucrative contracts to supply it with military and civilian goods, a senior policy adviser to Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion wrote shortly before he was hired last month.

Jocelyn Coulon’s comments, published weeks before he joined Mr. Dion’s office, are at odds with the Trudeau government’s repeated insistence that it can effectively stand up to Saudi Arabia on human rights while overseeing an unprecedented $15-billion arms deal with Riyadh that will span 14 years until 2028.

WHINING LIBERAL MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT

Rookie Liberal MPs, who are trying to learn the ropes of House committees, say they want more formal training because they’re concerned opposition MPs will try to exploit their inexperience and embarrass them in front of stakeholders and Hill media.

Conservative MP Alex Nuttall, also a rookie and a member of the House Industry, Science, and Technology Committee:  “If the Liberals aren’t trained or don’t know, while unfortunate, it was up to me to get up to speed on committees and certainly it’s up to them to do the same.”

SENATE EXPENSE PROBE CLEARS UP RULES

Senators are hoping to turn the page on the toughest expense probe in the Senate’s history, after former Supreme Court justice Ian Binnie released his final Senate expense arbitration report last week in Ottawa.  The total amount of money these 14 Senators are required to pay back is $177,898.14. Senators have 30 days to pay this money back or face legal action.

Check out the list at the end of the article that names the senators who owe, and the amount involved.

 

SCRAMBLING TO GET OUT OF UKRAINE

 There is effectively no state in Ukraine.  The authorities are busy ingratiating themselves with every available power figure — the US Embassy, local oligarchs, Right Sector, and various Mafia groups — seeing in those the only keys to the government’s own legitimacy and ability to hold on to power.

A Kiev-based headhunting agency claims that according to their polls, 70% of the population does not see any future in Ukraine.

 

PAGING EUROPE: YOU'RE AT WAR WITH ISLAMIC TERRORISM

Europe has absorbed millions of Muslims from the Middle East and the Maghreb (North Africa) in recent decades.  The failure of the European states to integrate them, by not insisting on their conforming to European culture, created alienation.  Generous welfare payments, and lack of jobs, especially for Muslim youth, fostered resentment and violence. The PC elites in Europe valued multi-culturalism over integration, and the people of Europe are paying the price today. 

 

MUSLIMS SLAUGHTERING CHRISTIANS

Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamic extremist group, has killed more people in the name of jihad than the Islamic State (ISIS), according to the findings of a new report. Since 2000, when twelve Northern Nigerian states began implementing or more fully enforcing Islamic law, or Sharia, "between 9,000 to 11,500 Christians" have been killed. This is "a conservative estimate."

 

CALIFORNIA'S MINIMUM WAGE TO HIT $15/HR

California already has the highest poverty rate in the nation, at 23.5%. This deal will ensure that it keeps that crown, and will take away opportunities for people to escape poverty through hard work.

 

TARGETING THE BELGIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Belgian security services are fearful that ISIS operatives may have been looking to target a nuclear plant as it emerged two workers from a plant in Doel fled to Syria to join ISIS. 

One of the men, reportedly known as Ilyass Boughalab, is believed to have been killed in Syria, while the second served a short prison sentence in Belgium for terror-related offences in 2014. 

With an extensive understanding of nuclear facilities, the convict's short jail sentence has raised further questions of the Belgian security services as well as fears he may have passed on important knowledge about the sites to the terrorist group. 

 

 

WYNNE'S CAP & TRADE FIASCO

As previously suggested, the Liberal Cap and Trade System will apply to GHG emissions from:

1. electricity generation and importation

2. natural gas distribution

3. petroleum product supply

4. regulated industrial and large commercial facilities (e.g. manufacturing, base metal processing, steel, pulp and paper, food processing)² that emit greater than or equal to 25,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent ("CO₂e") per year.

 

SELINGER'S FANTASY FISCAL UPDATE

The Conservatives are taking aim at Greg Selinger and the NDP for providing a ‘less detailed Fantasy Fiscal Update' and padding the numbers to hide his plan to raise taxes.

The Conservatives said the NDP padded its numbers to hide an estimated $180 million gap in its fiscal plan.

 

IMAGINE IF THEY HAD A DIFFICULT JOB

Huguette Labelle, a highly regarded former civil servant and emeritus governor of the University of Ottawa, told The Huffington Post Canada on Friday that when her independent panel handed over 25 names to the Prime Minister’s Office as recommendations for new senators, it did not make sure that the five Quebecers on the list met property ownership requirements that apply in the province. She said it wasn’t their responsibility to ensure that all the nominees met the qualifications for office.

 

GERMAN AUTHORITIES NO LONGER IN CHARGE

The German government’s track record on deportations has got steadily worse over the course of the migrant crisis. The larger number of incoming migrants has led to either a backlog of deportations or a total inability for authorities to find and deport migrants due to lack of man power.

 

GERMANY'S SEGREGATED TRAIN CARS

A central German regional railway is launching a special women and children only area for their trains, a move which has triggered controversy.

 

AUTISM:

Old Cree word for gravy train.
Starting in 2017, a Saskatchewan Party government will introduce and then increase funding for children under the age of six with Autism Spectrum Disorder [ASD]. The funding will start at $4,000 annually, increasing to $8,000 by 2019-2020.  The eventual goal is to provide individualized annual funding of $15,000 to $18,000 annually...


But there's no connection with...


Several decades ago, the autism rate among children was 1-in-14,300. It rose to 1-in-150 by 2002. Now it is just 1-in-45 if we use the latest 2014 data.

HYDRO ONE

There's a giant black hole in the Sunshine List this year. The sell-off of Hydro One means it's no longer subject to legislation requiring the salaries of all public servants making 100,000$ be made public.

BRUSSELS - THE DEATH KNELL OF THE GLOBALIST IDEOLOGY

The butchery of Islamist terror cells has exposed the failure of the globalist European Union. It’s only fitting the massacre occurred in Brussels, the capital city of the European superstate founded on the free flow of people, goods and capital across borders.

But Washington elites remain in thrall to this globalist ideology even as people around the world watch the results in horror.

NRA REMOVING VIOLENCE FROM FAIRY TALES

Imagine a world where the characters from your favourite childhood fairy tales and fables are armed.

Hansel with a hunting rifle. Or Little Red Riding Hood’s granny with a shotgun.

That world now exists on the National Rifle Association’s NRA Family website, which partnered with author Amelia Hamilton “to present her twist on those classic tales” — a series that has infuriated gun-control advocates, some of whom called it “absolutely sick.”

 

BALANCING THE BOOKS NOT A CONCERN FOR TRUDEAU'S GOV'T

The Liberal government has tried to convey the message that poor economic conditions and weak revenue growth made large deficits inevitable. The budget contradicts this rhetoric. The reality is that rapid spending growth over the next several years is responsible for the larger deficits and run-up in debt now projected to occur. Canadians will pay the price for the choices made in this budget for many years to come.

SYMBOLS, TRADITIONS, AND LORE OF EASTER

How did bunnies, eggs, candies, and parades get caught up in the tradition? Easter is a fascinating hybrid of Christian observance, pagan beliefs, moon cycles and folklore.

 

ALL THE PALATABLE CHOICES ARE GONE

Members of the GOP foreign policy establishment are open to supporting Hillary Clinton for president if that’s what it takes to prevent Donald Trump from becoming commander in chief. As The Hill reports, a number of prominent Republicans who signed a scathing open letter denouncing Trump said they aren’t wavering from their opposition to him..."Donald Trump is not a Republican. ... He is a caricature of classless wealth. ... He is a caricature of the ugly American."

 

THE CURRENCY WAR IS FUTILE

That’s from WTO chief economist Robert Koopman, and it’s a quote we’ve used on a number of occasions. Koopman is referring to the fact that for several years in a row, the rate of growth in global trade has lagged GDP growth. That’s a problem for two reasons: 1) GDP growth is hardly robust as it is, and 2) before the recent downturn, the last time trade growth underperformed the rate of economic expansion was two decades ago.

 

OBAMA'S STUNNED ADVICE

President Barack Obama confirmed all conservative doubts and worries about him in comments to young people in Argentina on Thursday. Not only did he say that the differences between communism and capitalism are intellectual rather than practical, he also declared that people should choose from either system whatever idea best suits the moment. This is  the kind of thinking that created Marxism in the first place.

 

HOLDING IRAN ACCOUNTABLE FOR 9/11. OR NOT

Recently released documents from a federal court in the US reveal that Iran and the Shiite radical group Hezbollah had a “firsthand” role in the perpetration of 9/11.

U.S. District Judge George Daniels in New York ordered the Islamic Republic to pay more than $10.5 billion in damages to the estates and families of people who died at the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

 Meanwhile, Obama’s administration continues its appeasement policy with the ruling authoritarian clerics of Iran.

 

 

AN UNFORTUNATE MISUNDERSTANDING SAYS LIBERAL GRANT CRACK

Sept. 2015:  The Nation Mayor Francois St-Amour says MPP Grant Crack said rescinding  The Nation’s support “will help make sure it dies,” or at least send a message to Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), which decides on the awarding of contracts. Opposition has been growing in The Nation since both companies held public meetings in June. Last month, The Nation declared itself “not a willing host” at a meeting packed with protestors. 

 

Now for Crack's weasel words:

 

Written by Gregg Chamberlain in the Tribune Express , March 2016

http://www.editionap.ca/tribune-express

 

MPP defends decision process

A misunderstanding is how Ontario MPP Grant Crack explains the response to windfarm application approvals in the Five Counties region.

The Liberal representative for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell explained during a phone interview on March 14 that the IESO decision to approve two wind farm proposals for the Nation Municipality and South Stormont Township considered a number of factors, but the final decision was based on supply cost for electricity for the provincial grid.  "It is unfortunate there's been some misunderstanding", Crack said regarding complaints from mayors and councils for both municipalities and others.  Both communities had declared themselves "unwilling hosts" and were under the impression that self-proclaimed designation would exempt them from having to accept wind farm projects. MPP Crack said the IESO did consider local support and "unwilling host" designations during its review of wind farm applications but that was just one part of the

overall process and did not mean automatic rejection of an application. He also noted that application process for all current alternative energy projects is still ongoing with environmental assessment and other issues to consider now.

 

ARCHIVE OF NORMANDY PLANS FOR D-DAY

A Top Secret 'how to' guide to the Normandy invasion that was found at a French flea market has emerged for sale after 72 years.

The fascinating archive of black and white reconnaissance photos and incredibly-detailed intelligence documents show the extensive research that went into ensuring D-Day was a success.

 

 

PLAYING THE GAME IN QUEBEC

The province should create a liaison office to better understand today’s English-speaking Quebecers and help rebuild bridges with a community that’s feeling ignored, misunderstood and discriminated against, the Quebec Community Groups Network told the education minister on Thursday.

 

WHY DID WE IMPORT THIS DANGER?

Steyn:  That could be the headline on every one of these stories: Brussels, and Paris, and Copenhagen, and the Cologne rapes and Charlie Hebdo and all the rest. But no matter how high the pile of corpses climbs the question never gets asked - nor does the natural follow-up: Why do we continue to import it?

 

CALLING BULLSH!T ON WHITE HOUSE SCIENCE ADVISOR

If President Obama and John Holdren genuinely think the evidence supports their position, that Climate Change is a serious threat, why don’t they simply stand by the evidence which they believe supports their case? Why did John Holdren, in my opinion, attempt to hide behind legal technicalities, and do everything in his power to obstruct transparency, when challenged about the defensibility of alarmist statements he made about climate change?

 

BLOVIATING ON THE WAR ON TERROR

We've got to go about our lives and travel and shop and work and all of those things without being intimidated."

Got that? Our "values" are traveling and shopping. The Islamofascists merely want us to “modify our activities.” But that would "change who we are." Go to the mall, Angus! Shop till you drop! What a profound geopolitical strategy.

That’s it, words. That will show ISIS who’s strong and who’s not.

 

CALIFORNIA AG: ANOTHER LEFTY GOV'T BULLY

This sends the message: People who fight to protect their rights against government lawbreaking are suspect. Fear of government retribution is a time-tested way to bully people so they keep their complaints to themselves. 

The comments state that Ms. Harris’ “demands for Schedule B donor names and addresses are a bold, brash, and startling statement that the Attorney General believes she is not bound by or beholden to [Internal Revenue Code section] 6104(c).”

 

TERRORISTS EYEING BELGIAN NUCLEAR SITE

The terror cell that bombed Brussels airport and the city’s subway may have planned to target one of Belgium’s nuclear sites and had gathered surveillance footage of the home of a senior nuclear director which was filmed by the El Bakraoui brothers — identified as two of the suicide bombers behind the deadly attacks earlier this week.

 

RUNNING FROM ACCOUNTABILITY

Premier Kathleen Wynne was coy Wednesday when asked if she was planning on proroguing the legislature, which the opposition believes could be a way to avoid accountability.  There are still two major pieces of legislation — the budget bill and cap-and-trade legislation — that have not yet passed, but are expected to in the near future.

The opposition parties suggested the Liberal government might want to prorogue in order to avoid question period.  "They're mired in waste, mismanagement and scandal and I think that's the real reason this government wants to run, but it won't be able to hide from the people of Ontario,"

 

WHEN LIBERALS CLEAN UP THE TAX CODE

Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the Liberal government has only begun to clean up the tax code with his first federal budget and that a more detailed review is coming.

Morneau's big-spending, big-borrowing blueprint has fiscal hawks complaining that projected cumulative federal deficits in the $100-billion range over the next four years, spiralling debt, hefty tax increases or both will be the inevitable outcome.

 

$4000 OF REAL ESTATE - IS IT AN OUTHOUSE?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau either lied to Canadians or his independent panel that shortlisted the seven senators appointed last week failed to fulfil its mandate, a Conservative MP charged Thursday.

Ontario MP Scott Reid was responding to a report in The Hill Times that new Quebec Senator André Pratte, a former journalist with the Montreal daily La Presse, did not own property in the district he was appointed to represent.

 

TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN BELGIUM & GERMANY

Belgian police arrested seven people and Germany arrested two in investigations into Islamic State suicide bombings in Brussels, while authorities in France said they thwarted a militant plot there "that was at an advanced stage".

 

THE GENEROSITY OF ONTARIO TAXPAYERS

Ontario released its annual report of public sector employees earning more than $100,000 Thursday — the “Sunshine List.”  There are 115,431 people on the 2015 list, an increase of nearly 4,000 despite the fact 3,774 Hydro One workers who were paid over $100,000 last year are no longer included.
Tom Mitchell, the CEO of Ontario Power Generation, came out on top for 2015, taking home $1,528,933.36 in salary and taxable benefits worth $66,377.26. Close behind was the University of Toronto’s president William Moriarty, who took home $1,473,445.98 in salary.

 

 

BREXIT NOT DAMAGING TO UK SECURITY

Whether one is an enthusiastic European or not, the truth about Brexit (British exit from the EU) from a national security perspective is that the cost to Britain would be low. Brexit would bring two potentially important security gains: the ability to dump the European Convention on Human Rights—remember the difficulty of extraditing the extremist Abu Hamza of the Finsbury Park Mosque—and, more importantly, greater control over immigration from the European Union.

 

BRUSSELS THE CENTRE OF ISIS EUROPEAN NETWORK

Security officials say the many opportunities missed by Belgian authorities allowed an extraordinary terror network of suicide bombers, gunmen and bomb makers to stretch from Paris to Brussels operating from rented safe houses around both cities. 
An anti-terror investigator with experience of both Belgium and France said: ‘The alarm bells should have sounded on so many occasions but the problem is linking all the pieces of information together. ‘There is no doubt that chances were missed to stop many of these men and, in time, the authorities will have to address this but for now they will be wondering how many more have slipped through the net and are planning their own attacks.’ 

 

OBAMA GOVERNING BY DECREE

Washington is out of control. Legislators, judges and unelected bureaucrats want to control our lives, livelihoods and living standards, with no accountability even for major errors, calculated deception, or deliberate, often illegal assaults on our liberties and on citizens who resist the advancing Leviathan. For seven years, our “Try and stop me” president and administration have used and abused their powers to impose their agenda.

 

CANADIAN BANK DEPOSITOR'S AT RISK

From Tuesday's 2016 Federal Budget.

CRYBULLY REVOLUTIONARY WANNABEES: AMERICAN FASCISTS

Bill Whittle:  The upsurge of American Fascism we are observing has nothing to do with Donald Trump, because this is what the left ALWAYS does: they block, with coercion, intimidation or physical violence, any viewpoint not in line with their murderous policies of total political mind control and inevitable economic ruin. What, after all, are Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter but a little street muscle?

 

BOMBARDIER'S TROUGH OVERFLOWS

We have secured all the funding required to ramp up the CSeries program and also for the rest of aerospace. Really, the federal funding would just be an extra endorsement for the program. … That’s really just an extra bonus that would be helpful but is very clearly not required.”

RAISING RED FLAGS ON ALBERTA'S INCREASING DEBT

Alberta’s Finance Minister says he has no idea when the province’s budget will be balanced, months after promising the deficit would be eliminated before the end of the decade.  After he tables his budget, Mr. Ceci will explain his spending plan to investors and bond-rating agencies, which have already raised red flags about rising debt levels. Before Alberta’s next general election, set for 2019, the province will begin borrowing money to finance the day-to-day operations of government – something it hasn’t done since 1994.

 

BOMBARDIER SUCKED UP $1.3B TAXPAYER DOLLARS SINCE 1966

The federal government is taking into account the possibility Bombardier may outsource 200 jobs when determining whether to give as much as US$1 billion to the aerospace manufacturer for its CSeries planes, Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains said Wednesday.

Bains would not say whether the outsourcing of those jobs would be a deal breaker for federal support, but said the government is taking "a holistic approach" in its evaluation.

 

YOUR HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES ARE USELESS

Coulter:  Immigration is the new “No Nukes/Save the Whales” movement, only with more body bags.  After the mass murder committed by Muslims in San Bernardino, which came on the heels of the mass murder committed by Muslims in Paris, Donald Trump proposed a moratorium on Muslim immigration.

 

OBAMA'S FAILED AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

The Administration claimed the ACA would bend the cost curve, but our report shows it bent in the wrong direction -- premiums didn't slow under the Affordable Care Act, they sped up. No wonder the White House is trying to change the national conversation away from health care costs. By their own standards, the Affordable Care Act has failed.

 

ENVIRONMENTALISTS CHEER THE SEC'S DECISION

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled Exxon Mobil Corp must include a climate change resolution on its annual shareholder proxy, a defeat for the world's largest publicly traded oil producer, which had argued it already provides adequate carbon disclosures.  If approved, the proposal would force Exxon to outline specific risks that climate change or legislation designed to curb it could pose to its ability to operate profitably.

 

SKILLS & EMPLOYMENT TRAINING FOR FIRST NATIONS

With a growing and young Aboriginal population in Canada, surely a substantial portion of the $8.4 billion in the federal budget designated for Aboriginal people over the next five years will go towards skills training for that 15 to 24-plus aboriginal cohort, right? Wrong. It turns out only 0.2 per cent (or $15 million) of the $8.4 billion is earmarked for skills and employment training for Aboriginal Canadians. Liberal priorities: over the next five years aboriginal political and regional organizations will receive $96 million to “engage with the government.”

 

BLAMING THE DOCTORS

Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins says "out of control billing" by some Ontario doctors is leaving less money for home care and other vital services.

TRUDEAU PASSING THE BUCKS TO PROVINCES

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first budget will spend about $10 billion of our money over the next five years (including in foreign countries) on what he claims are climate change initiatives.

The problem is, he’s doing it without any concrete plan in place to lower industrial greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change.  He opted instead, to give billions of dollars to the provinces to support their carbon pricing schemes.

 

IRS & JUSTICE DEP'T LAWYERS REBUKED

A federal appeals court delivered a long overdue rebuke Tuesday to both the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department attorneys that have defended it in lawsuits from aggrieved tea party groups. A unanimous three-judge panel ordered the IRS to quickly turn over the full list of groups it targeted so that a class-action lawsuit, filed by the NorCal Tea Party Patriots, can proceed.

TRUDEAU'S LABOUR MINISTER MARYANN MIHYCHUK

No shame and has no clue.

WEASEL DIESEL WORDS

Ontario’s new environmental commissioner Dianne Saxe says that her critics got it wrong. She is not calling for coloured diesel to run clear and drive up farmers’ fuel costs, but she does want the province to take a hard look at the long-running “subsidy.”

 

CONTAINING CHERNOBYL

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) - In the middle of a vast exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, the world's largest land-based moving structure has been built to prevent deadly radiation spewing from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site for the next 100 years.

 

MARINE LE PEN

Visits Quebec.

BUDGET 2016

The highlights.

PAGING TRUDEAU: EDUCATING REFUGEES IS EXPENSIVE

Edmonton’s public school board voted unanimously to write a letter asking the federal government for more than $2 million in assistance to help pay to educate 500 Syrian students.

 

 

SHOCKER: EPA COLLUDES WITH GREEN ACTIVISTS

The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is extremely disappointed that the DC Circuit three judge panel refused to consider whether the EPA was improperly influenced by so called ‘green’ groups when the agency put forth the Clean Power Plan (CPP) that intended to “bankrupt” coal power plants and eliminate coal miners jobs throughout the country.

 

LIBERALS CREATE A BLEAK FUTURE RE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT

Canada’s potential to develop energy is immense. Canada has the third largest reserves of oil in the world, and large reserves of natural gas. Unfortunately, government policies are putting some of Canada’s future resource production at risk. To make matters worse, these policy changes come at a time when Canada’s energy industry faces deep economic hardships.

 

UNCERTAINTY AROUND ABORIGINAL LAND CLAIMS

 This 2015 Saik’uz First Nation and Stellat’en First Nation v. Rio Tinto landmark judgment opens up private parties, such as citizens and companies, to aboriginal rights and title litigation previously only brought forward against governments. The judgment allows First Nations communities to claim damages against a private party on traditional territory before proving that Aboriginal title exists on the territory.

 

NEW BYLAW TARGETS PET STORES

Ottawa pet stores using commercial suppliers for dogs and cats would need to instead get their animals from shelters and rescue operations within five years if council endorses a committee recommendation.

TRUDEAU'S GOLDILOCKS BUDGET

Not too hot. Not too cold.  Not too soft. Not too hard.

Call it a “Goldilocks” budget.

Or at least that’s how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is trying to set up public reception for his first budget, to be tabled today.

 

BRIBING GOV'T WORKERS FOR POLITICAL SUPPORT

It turns out that the scam perpetrated by Democrats in this country has been common among most of the world’s advanced economies. To wit: bribe the large and growing population of government workers for political support by promising them future benefits, in the form of retirement and lifetime health care, that don’t show up right away.

This staggering level of debt simply can’t be paid by taxpayers.

 

GOP 100 DAY CAMPAIGN AGAINST TRUMP

The Republican Party establishment is prepared to manipulate the rules at the party's national convention this summer to deprive Donald Trump of the presidential nomination -- even if he wins an outright majority of delegates -- according to longtime political operative and Trump confidant Roger Stone.  At the same time, Republican leaders are also moving forward with an eleventh-hour push to stop Trump in the remaining primary races, the New York Times reports.

 

OBAMA WELCOMES CASTRO'S CRITICISM

“President Castro has also addressed what he views as shortcomings in the United States around basic needs for people in poverty and inequality and race relations and we welcome that constructive dialogue as well,” Obama says.  “I actually welcome President Castro commenting on some of the areas where he feels we’re falling short because I think we should not be immune or afraid of criticism or discussion as well,” he said.

 

AWFUL LEGACY OF OBAMA YEARS

Monday in Spokane, WA, while campaigning for his wife, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton characterized President Barack Obama’s time in office as the “awful legacy of the last eight years.”

 

SAVING BRITAIN FROM THE SCOURGE OF ISLAM

Political Islam has absolutely no interest in finding any accommodations with what it considers to be our worthless Western culture. Its aim is total conquest. To deny this is a bit like reading Mein Kampf and going “Yeah but he doesn’t really mean it.”

 

RACKING UP ONTARIO'S DEBT

A popular narrative from Queen’s Park and some other circles holds that it is the result of global economic forces over which the government has little direct control.  The provincial government has, in important ways, made the economic problems facing Ontario even worse through misguided economic policies. Of perhaps greatest concern, policymakers in Queen’s Park have failed to restrain the growth in provincial spending, with the result being an explosion in the size of Ontario’s public debt

FRANCE CONSIDERING AN EU EXIT?

Alongside Germany, France is considered the central pillar of the European Union project.

But a struggling economy and a faltering government has fuelled a rising Eurosceptic sentiment in France, as well as an escalating migrant crisis and a surge in popularity for the far-right FN.

And with France’s neighbours across the Channel winning negotiations with Brussels, many French voters are asking why their government cannot do the same. 

 

 

 

OBAMA'S DEDICATION TO ALINSKY TACTICS

In Saul Alinsky’s 1971 book Rules for Radicals, the late author could have been describing Obama’s last seven years in office when he wrote that an efficacious organizer should be “an abrasive agent to rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; to fan latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expressions.”

 

DID THAT FUR ON YOUR HOOD ONCE BARK?

For years, animal rights activists have warned that dog and cat fur enters the Canadian fashion market from China and is sold to unknowing customers. In Toronto, dog fur-lined jackets have turned up in police investigations of counterfeit goods. Toronto police seized a number of knock-off parkas with German Shepard-lined hoods in 2012 as part of a counterfeit crackdown.

 

GREEN BONDS: A NEW WAY TO TAP THE MARKET

Green bonds – corporate borrowing to help finance improved energy efficiency, renewables, and other fashionable environmental activities, appear to be a growing trend. But there are concerns about transparency, about ensuring the money raised is spent as promised.

 

SPLLING MORE CRUDE OIL ON THE MARKET

Some U.S. shale oil producers, including Oasis Petroleum (OAS.N) and Pioneer Natural Resources Co (PXD.N), are activating drilled but uncompleted wells (DUCs) in a reversal in strategy that threatens to bring more crude to a saturated market and dampen any sustained rebound in prices.

 

 

VLAD LOOKING OUT FOR HIS FRIENDS

President Vladimir Putin, marking the anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea, on Friday exhorted workers building a bridge between the Black Sea peninsula and Russia to fulfil an "historic mission" first conceived by a Russian tsar. Anti-corruption campaigners have also criticized the Russian government's decision to award the construction contract to  a company which specializes in gas pipelines and has never built a bridge. The company is owned by Putin's judo partner.

 

LE PEN STIRRING IT UP IN QUEBEC

French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen, who is touring the Canadian province of Quebec, said on Sunday the country's immigration policy was on the "wrong path,"   Le Pen also said that if her party were to take power in France, it would recognize Quebec as a sovereign state, the Canadian Press reported.

 

THE PARTY'S OVER JUSTIN. GET TO WORK.

Andrew Coyne: The Trudeau government, wildly popular as it is, seems more intent on keeping the feel-good vibe going than doing the difficult but necessary things

 

 

TRUDEAU'S POLICY INCONSISTENCIES

The National Energy Board doesn’t review Bombardier for its upstream or downstream carbon emissions when the company proposes to add to the world’s massive fleet of jets. Yet the aviation industry, as the European Union has declared, “is one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions.”   The same consideration applied when governments came to the rescue of General Motors. There was no talk of upstream and downstream emissions.  Why then is Canada's oil industry being expected to take the bullet on the climate change file?

 

BELIEVE ME, WARM IS BETTER

Dr. Tim Ball:  I Hope The IPCC Is Correct About Warming Because Cooling Is a Bigger Problem

 

NO ACCELERATION IN SEA LEVEL RISE

Just in case somebody could be interested in understanding if the climate scientists are telling us the truth about sea level acceleleration, there is still the opportunity to verify by using the tide gauge data in the PSMSL data base.

 

ISIL'S CULPABILITY IN GENOCIDE

Evil does exist.  But ignoring it or refusing to call it by its name does not make it go away," McCarthy said. "ISIL is murdering Christians. They are targeting people who share my faith -- the faith of many people in this House -- people who believe in Jesus Christ. And because of that belief, they are being marked for execution. ISIL is murdering and enslaving religious and ethnic minorities everywhere they gain power, and we know it."

 

THE FERGUSON EFFECT AKA FIDO

If the law enforcement priorities reflected by this change in policy are unclear, the political priorities are not. Mayor Bill de Blasio seeks to minimize confrontations between police and lawbreakers, and he knows that lawbreakers are concentrated most heavily in those black and Latino neighborhoods most often ignored by the New York media.

Already this year, twelve police officers have been shot to death in the United States, including one on her very first day on patrol.   That’s three times as many as at this time in 2015.

 

LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE

President Obama sought to increase the amount of money available for the federal government to spend on former presidents in advance of his White House exit.

 

CONTROLLING SCIENTISTS THE LIBERAL WAY

Senior civil servants warned the new Liberal government that "unmuzzled" scientists still need a tight leash, internal documents show.

 

SUCKERING CANADA'S POLITICAL LEADERS

In essence, U.S. President Barack Obama and his eco-activist allies have created a monopoly on North American oil and LNG exports by simply blocking any competition from Canada, all in the name of saving the planet.

What’s even more amazing is how Canada’s political leaders have so eagerly swallowed this self-serving U.S. propaganda, hook, line and sinker. Simply put, we’ve been suckered.

 

NOTLEY LOOKING FOR FUNDS FROM OTTAWA

Premier Rachel Notley says Alberta isn’t asking Ottawa for an additional direct cash injection in next Tuesday’s federal budget but is looking for concrete action from the Trudeau government, including $1 billion in infrastructure spending.  

Earlier Friday, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said in a news release that he had sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging him not to proceed with a ban on oil tanker traffic along the northern coast of British Columbia.

 

HACKING HILLARY'S BLACKBERRY

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fully understood how risky it was to use a non-government-issued BlackBerry while visiting overseas, a newly-revealed video shows. Yet a media investigation indicates that she sent dozens of emails during multiple trips to China, Vietnam, and Russia.

 

WARPED PRIORITIES IN SWEDEN

Leaving the lights on during Earth Hour is a means of rape prevention:  "On basis of the large number of immigrant-related sexual attacks recently, against women in Östersund, the municipality will keep the street lights lit during the "Earth Hour" on Saturday."

 

COLOSSAL MISMANAGEMENT AT THE UN

A former United Nations official with decades of experience in senior positions accused the world body of "colossal mismanagement," saying on Friday it had failed to uphold the principles for which it was established.
Yah, I was shocked too.

DOING NOTLEY'S DIRTY WORK FOR HER

Notley’s hand-picked advisor recommends  a censorship cartel to keep reporters she does not like off government property.

 

FEDERAL LIBERALS INVESTING YOUR CPP

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board opened an office in Mumbai this month and has already committed to invest more than $2 billion in India.

A LEFTIST IN CENTRIST CLOTHING

President Barack Obama nominated Merrick B. Garland, who currently serves as Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The White House's strategy was to pick someone whom they believe will be politically difficult for Republican senators to simply ignore – a stealth leftist recast as a “centrist.”

 

CONSUMER DRIVEN HOUSING IN THE CHICKEN COOP

Not all egg farmers are pleased with the decision by the Egg Farmers of Canada (EFC) to force farmers away from using conventional housing.  One Ontario egg farmer started building a conventional barn last summer when he saw the writing on the wall and switched to enriched housing, a move he estimates cost about 20 per cent more than traditional housing. An enriched barn would need to be 30 to 40 per cent larger to hold the same number of birds as conventional, he said.

 

STUPIDITY KNOWS NO BOUNDS

The province recently gave wind energy company Wpd Canada approval to build eight 152-metre turbines near Collingwood Regional Airport.  One is just 2.1 nautical miles from the end of the runway — just seconds after take-off and seconds before landing.

 

LET THE OINKING BEGIN

Trudeau is set to appoint seven new senators.

 

CURRENT ONTARIO ENERGY PRICE: 0.00 CENTS PER KWH

Wynne's Green Energy Act is destroying Ontario.

 

SHOCKER: QUEBEC LIBERAL POLITICIANS ARRESTED

Quebec’s anti-corruption squad has arrested seven high-ranking members of the provincial Liberal party, including two former cabinet ministers.

Among those arrested early Thursday is the former Liberal deputy premier of Quebec, Nathalie Normandeau, and former minister Marc-Yvan Côté, Bruno Lortie, Mario Martel, France Michaud, Ernest Murray and François Roussy.

 

WHEN GREENIES MANAGE PENSION FUNDS...

Climate change advocacy need not come in the form of ill-considered financial decisions that are unlikely to metabolize into real change. Particularly when these decisions affect the retirements of California’s educators and the pocketbooks of California’s taxpayers, public pension managers need to be able to look past their own political views and act solely in the interests of those whose retirement nest eggs are in their trust. Holding that money hostage to political whims is financially irresponsible.

 

REAL REASON BEHIND ENERGY EAST OPPOSITION

Energy East is not about energy or the environment. It is about the East. Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and Wildrose Leader Brian Jean both noted that opposition to it increased regional tensions and divisiveness.  For Quebec politicians, including the prime minister, that is the whole point: Saskatchewan, and especially Alberta, need to be reminded of their proper place in the Laurentian vision of Canada.

 

JAPAN WILL MEET PARIS COMMITMENTS

Japan, which hilariously defined investment in high efficiency coal plants as “climate finance“, now plans to meet Paris commitments, by building even more coal plants.

 

TRADING PRIVACY FOR INSURANCE SAVINGS

For the overwhelming majority of Canadian drivers, if a serious collision occurs, our vehicles can rat us out faster than a sweating street thug under the hot lights in a police interrogation room.

Event Data Recorders, or EDRs for short, exist in about 96 per cent of vehicles on the road. They primarily exist as software written into air-bag computers that continually record vehicle operating data in an over-writing loop process.

 

LIBERAL HANDS IN YOUR POCKETS

In December 2015, Canada’s new Liberal government introduced changes to Canada’s personal income-tax system. Among the changes for the 2016 tax year, the federal government added a new income-tax bracket, raising the top tax rate from 29% to 33% on incomes over $200,000. 

 

IS WYNNE CAPABLE OF TELLING THE TRUTH?

On March 10, 2015 it was leaked that the Liberals were going to sell Hydro One after promising not to do so in 2014.   Premier Wynne went on the record and said "Whatever we do, we are going to control prices. We are going to make sure that the regulatory regimes that will protect people in this province stay in place."

Then in June 2015, in complete contradiction to that statement, Premier Wynne removed all regulatory public protection in Bill 91. The Ombudsman and Auditor general were removed as were caps on executive salaries, the sunshine list, freedom of information and all public accountability.

 

$6 MILLION RENOVATION AT MILITARY BASES

The federal government spent millions of dollars renovating buildings at several military bases in case they were needed to house Syrian refugees, but none of the newcomers have had to use the facilities.
The federal government spent more than $6 million and moved hundreds of personnel at six military bases in Ontario and Quebec in preparation for the influx of refugees that arrived in Canada between November and February.

 

EDUCATING YOUNG TRUDEAU

Peter MacKay slammed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for suggesting Wednesday Canada had been absent from the United Nations for a decade;  as a previous foreign minister, when I hear the phrase ‘Canada is back’, I can’t help but wonder aloud where in God’s name does this prime minister think we’ve been? I know where we’ve been. We’ve been in Afghanistan, we’ve been involved in efforts in Africa and other troubled parts of the world.

 

THE USELESS UN

Justin Trudeau and half his cabinet went to New York to formally announce Canada’s intention to return to the UN Security Council table.  The UN has become nothing more than a debating society where there’s lots of talk and no action. It has been ineffectual for a long time but what’s even worse, in order for Canada to actually win that seat, it will cost us a fortune in bribes.

 

FEDERAL RESERVE IS JUICING THE SYSTEM

The Federal Reserve is dealing financial drugs and endangering the world economy by creating a bond bubble of epic proportions.

Rather than sobering up with sound money and fiscal restraint, it instead has chosen the irresponsible and reckless route—so as to create a “wealth effect.”

 

JUDGED BY THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

On March 10th, the Florida chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) posted on its Facebook page a photo of its Orlando Regional Operations Coordinator, Rasha Mubarak, shoulder-to-shoulder and smiling beside an equally smiling US Senator Bernie Sanders. Next to the photo, CAIR stated that the two were together “for a meeting with local Orlando leaders.” Question: Why was a leader of a group with so many connections to terrorism invited to such a meeting featuring a candidate for United States President?

 

BUMBLEBEES

May be included on the Endangered Species Act. 

OTTAWA EYEING RURAL RESIDENTS' TAX BILLS

Over the past week, some councillors have received emails from rural residents asking why the city of Ottawa wants to charge a stormwater fee when residents themselves are maintaining the ditches.

   Former city councillor and the last mayor of Osgoode, Doug Thompson, says charging rural landowners a stormwater fee is “wrong.”  Thompson, whose property is on well and septic, said stormwater on his road simply runs into the ditch and is absorbed by the ground, with overflow going into the stormwater ponds, which have already been paid for.

 

WYNNE'S OPINION ON SAFE INJECTION SITES

"We need to reduce danger and increase safety."

TRUMP'S GREATEST ATTRACTION

It is becoming increasingly clear to the American middle class that Donald Trump is exposing the pretension of urban Eastern conservatism and the Republican Party leadership, who think they, and only they, know what’s best for all of us out here in flyover country. But what all those who fancy themselves our betters can’t process is that it is the very fact that they are so out of touch with ordinary folks that is Trump’s greatest attraction.

 

A GREENIES HOW TO GUIDE

On how to percolate bubonic plague.

BIG PHARMA

Cha-Ching! Cha-Ching! on pain killer sales. BTW...Canada is # 2 in sales.

CREATING AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN ONTARIO

The Ontario government's updated Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy, was released Monday. The $178-million plan is aimed at boosting the amount of affordable housing across the province. But the proposal getting most of the attention gives municipalities the option of implementing inclusionary zoning, which in essence means developers have to include a percentage of affordable housing in new developments.

 

 

DID PUTIN OUTWIT OBAMA RE SYRIA?

Russian President Vladimir Putin's sudden move to withdraw Russian forces from Syria, and declare the putative end of his country's main military operations there, once more caught many international observers by surprise. The pullout raises more questions about the approach taken by the White House, which had earlier warned that Moscow would get embroiled in a "quagmire," only to see pro-Assad forces make considerable gains at the expense of rebel militias backed by the United States and its allies.

 

TORONTO'S TOLL ROADS

According to a request for proposals, the city's study, expected to take about six months to complete, will look at no fewer than eight tolling scenarios. Those would include pricing schemes based on a flat rate; a distance-based price; fees that vary according to the number of passengers in a vehicle or type of vehicle; and a bulk buy or monthly pass system.

 

 

BANKS RAISING FEES TO MAINTAIN PROFITS

The Canadian Bankers Association says fees make up 5 per cent of bank revenues, which seems small as a percentage. That changes when you make it a number. CIBC, the smallest of the big banks, had revenues of $13.9 billion in 2015. Five per cent of that is $695 million.

 

SHUTTING DOWN THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF CANADA

An animal welfare charity that expensed everything from comic books to booze to a trip to Disneyland has had its long leash yanked by the Supreme Court of Canada. After a nine-year battle with Canada's taxman, the Humane Society of Canada for the Protection of Animals and the Environment, will not get a chance to stave off impending revocation of its tax-free status with an appearance before the country's highest court.                        

                   

                       

CARBON PRICING'S FATAL FLAW

Those pushing carbon tax schemes want to be "honest" and "consistent," the only type of scheme they can implement must be revenue neutral.  It's also why such a plan will probably never get passed.

 

GEORGE SOROS

Speaketh

MAKERS PAYING FOR THE TAKERS

The Ontario Home Builders' Association warned that "nothing comes for free."

WIND TURBINES' LEGACY OF COMMUNITY DESTRUCTION

“There are people here that have absolute hatred for others. I have never seen anything so divisive in our community ever, in my entire life,” said Alma-area dairy farmer Tim Martin. “You try to say forgive and forget, but a lot of people say ‘we forgive them but we remember.’ They put their pocketbook ahead of our health and above the community’s well-being, and people don’t forget that.”

DOING BUSINESS WITH THE DAIRY FARMERS OF ONTARIO. OR NOT

Once again the Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) and the rest of the industry have a choice: Let a plant be built that will buy Ontario dairy farmers’ milk, or, once again, go to court to stop it.