Many universities across Canada are introducing term limits for their Canada Research Chairs to get new academics into the jobs as the prestigious program struggles to meet diversity targets set by a court settlement.
Saturday, October 14, 2017
CALLING BULLSH!T ON LIBERAL SURPRISE
My friend reminded me that the first Finance Minister to propose taxing employee discounts was Allan MacEachen – in 1983! When Justin’s father, Pierre, was prime minister!
Discount sweaters for mall clothing store clerks have, apparently, been a bee in the bonnet of some Liberals for a third of a century.
There is no way the current Liberal government was caught unawares. Nor was CRA going rogue.
On Tuesday, Liberal MPs were saying this was nothing more than the clarification of an existing rule – nothing to get excited about.
By Wednesday, after the manure hit the public fan, Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier was claiming to be “deeply disappointed” by the bureaucrats in her department who had released this change without her say-so.
Discount sweaters for mall clothing store clerks have, apparently, been a bee in the bonnet of some Liberals for a third of a century.
There is no way the current Liberal government was caught unawares. Nor was CRA going rogue.
On Tuesday, Liberal MPs were saying this was nothing more than the clarification of an existing rule – nothing to get excited about.
By Wednesday, after the manure hit the public fan, Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier was claiming to be “deeply disappointed” by the bureaucrats in her department who had released this change without her say-so.
QUELLE SURPRISE!
"Cage-free" eggs were supposed to be the next big thing in America. Over the past several years everyone from McDonalds to Wal-Mart has promised to convert to cage-free eggs on the premise that millennial consumers would demand at least 144 square inches of space for the layers of their morning omelettes to frolic in freedom. As it turns out, Americans couldn't seem to care less whether chickens have 144 square inches of freedom or the hisotrical 67 square inches...they just want cheap eggs, hold the bullshit.
A FOOL'S HOMECOMING
If we are expected to express joy at the release of Canadian Joshua Boyle who was held hostage five years by Taliban-linked extremists, excuse us if we take a pass.
He’s both an idiot and a fool.
He’s such an idiot that the much-married backpacker was once married to Omar Khadr’s al-Qaeda-loving sister, and we are firm believers in being judged by the company one keeps.
He’s both an idiot and a fool.
He’s such an idiot that the much-married backpacker was once married to Omar Khadr’s al-Qaeda-loving sister, and we are firm believers in being judged by the company one keeps.
CONTRADICTIONS & CONDESCENSION
Steyn: When a decent old stiff such as Mitt Romney talks earnestly about looking for suitable female job candidates and clumsily distills the effort into the phrase "binders full of women", all the smart sophisticated types jump on it and make it a punchline for an antiquated condescension that only confirms how irredeemably misogynist the GOP is.
By contrast, when Harvey Weinstein corners a TV reporter in the corridor of his restaurant and forces her to watch as he unzips his pants, masturbates, and finally concludes the performance by ejaculating into a pot plant, all you hear, from a couple of larger leaves round the back of the plant, are drenched crickets chirping. Three decades of crickets chirping.
By contrast, when Harvey Weinstein corners a TV reporter in the corridor of his restaurant and forces her to watch as he unzips his pants, masturbates, and finally concludes the performance by ejaculating into a pot plant, all you hear, from a couple of larger leaves round the back of the plant, are drenched crickets chirping. Three decades of crickets chirping.
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