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ThePolitic is a weblog devoted to insight and original commentary on matters pertaining to Canadian society, government and economics, and occasionally the world outside our borders.
Stephane Dion wants to force Canadians to burn more money but I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one because of this: “We need a fiscal regime that will discourage pollution rather than reward it. Perhaps the time has come for Canadians to pay less tax on good things like [...]
Something does not add up. I have to cheer on the NDP again in Ontario for this one: The New Democratic Party has released documents it obtained through a Freedom of Information request to Pupatello’s economic development and trade ministry. The documents suggest GM has so far been given about half of the $500 million that [...]
Shame on Ignatieff for using the horrifying plight of the poor people for talking points. I certainly have a lot of sympathy for the victims of the natural disasters in China and Burma but I object to sending money to their governments. It makes no sense to me. Foreigners just sent tons [...]
This is news? Since when? So this lady got fired for giving away a Timbit. Then the big company made her bosses rehire her. Next thing you know, we have a gazillion “news” stories about it.
Against the backdrop of the buffoonery of Stephane Dion’s carbon tax proposal, shines a dim light from the direction of Jack Layton as he demands — on behalf of “millions of Canadians” of course — a gasoline ombudsman to field complaints. Now, I am not going to pretend that the gasoline industry is a [...]
Once and a while, the mainstream media picks up and follows the release of a particular video game because of its impact on society. Such is the case with any entry of the Grand Theft Auto series. IV, which is actually the eighth title of the popular anti-hero series, was released at the [...]
I’m not sure which looks more stupid, the RCMP questioning Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier about his relationship with a Montreal businessman because of a photo the saw of the two shaking hands, or the news media outlets who think this is actually worthy of reporting. Perhaps the Star, The Chronicle Herald, CTV and [...]
Rae was angered by the generalization for which he says he sees no basis in fact. -Toronto Star, Saturday May 10, 2008 That quote, and that link, refer to a story by Toronto Star reporter Tonda MacCharles today that suggests that Prime Minister Harper is wrongfully smearing the opposition with an anti-semitic brush. Rae’s charge is [...]
You know, it’s bad enough that in their desperation to get the Republicans out of the White House, the American media is trumpeting the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression… while the actual numbers indicate higher employment than the Clinton Years and a surprisingly robust economy considering that is happening in the real estate [...]
Oh…bama, not quite able to pull off a decisive win in yesterday’s votes, but still the winner simply because he showed up. And that’s really just it, isn’t it? Obama can’t lose now because he has secured enough delegates by the end of April to cruise through the rest of the primaries to [...]
Protecting the public? I am not so gullible. There really is no need nor is there a demand for this nonsense. Naturally — pardon the pun, the pharmaceutical companies benefit from this control of the market. You can not patent a naturally occurring product. Sorry but I am having a [...]
I thought this was clearly decided a few years ago. Someone should tell those Asian bankers. Nobody cares if people are starving as long as we can stave off ferns growing in the Arctic. Because if the earth were to get warmer, dinosaurs might re-emerge to terrorize the planet, and then we all know what happens then: (besides [...]
Ezra Levant makes some great points about the silliness surrounding the already apologized for duck incident in Fort McMurray. Every barrel of oil steamed out of the sand in Ft. McMurray is one more barrel that doesn’t come from a misogynist, human rights-violating environmental basket case, usually a dictatorship, and often a sponsor of terrorism. The [...]
Michael Coren has a piece in the Saturday Sun today. He also touches upon the point that I made earlier this week, that state Atheism is going to beat the charity out of our society as long as the government attempts to squeeze every vestige of Christian presence and no other group in our [...]
As longtime readers know, I’m no fan of Marc Emery, the self-styled “prince of pot”. Emery has built an entire career around avoiding personal responsibility and so I was quite surprised when I found his article on the Western Standard website to be so well-written and at the same time so personal. Unlike [...]
According to this article in the Globe and Mail, immigrants are the main victims of the widening rich-poor gap. But according to common sense, couldn’t they also be the main cause? Immigrants coming from other countries tend to make less money than people from Canada, which has one of the highest standards of living, worldwide. Not [...]
See, this is the problem with same-sex rights, and marriage and all that. You have physical, governmental, and tax benefits being passed to people on the basis of who touches who with what body parts. It just doesn’t make any sense. When this debate first started, I pointed this out to people. Now, we have the [...]
This is more embarrassing than waking up to an NDP sign on your lawn. And I’m sure that Harper’s team have the Liberal stories all ready to spill once that confidence motion comes on May 5! Oh, and just regarding the actual laws surrounding this whole issue, Andrew had it covered last week. Sponsored By: [...]
I think that a lot of libertarians (of all bends) out there can really get behind the idea that the government should not be dictating to employers under what terms they must employ their workers. After all, without such restrictions, many of the unions on life-support today would’ve gone the way of the dodo [...]
Lorrie Goldstein has some suggestions for the Globe and the Star: (5) “Good news” stories about the bright side of runaway fuel, food and energy prices. For example, when they get high enough that people stop their discretionary spending, thus leading to a recession, thus dramatically lowering greenhouse gas emissions the way that great environmental leader, [...]
Finally, the proof that I’ve been looking for all along. Why didn’t you atheist dudes tell me about this? After all, isn’t this specimen the sort of definitive and uncompromising link that has long been touted as the object which separated the educated and enlightened from the ignorant and self-deceiving. Consider me [...]
Definition: when the oppressors no longer tell the oppressed that they are too stupid for normal education - it just lets the oppressed say it, then agrees with them. Just another symptom of a nation that has copped out of caring for its fellow citizens by simply making mental, emotional and psychological problems, a “culture” or [...]
When I was in high school, my social studies class taught us about the basic economic principles behind industry. We were taught about primary industry, secondary industry, and tertiary industry. It was explained that primary industry involves the harvesting of natural resources. Examples of this are logging, mining, and oil drilling. Canada is famous for [...]
Amazing, just sheerly amazing! That’s the only thing that can be said about the TTC union’s decision to reject a deal so sweet that the last week was littered with dozens of columns expressing the devastating effects of allowing TTC employees a golden goose as big as being guaranteed highest bidder for not just [...]
The London Mayor likened a London led by Tory candidate to the Black Death at the launch of his campaign the other day. “Having Boris as mayor would be like reliving the Black Death of the Middle Ages or almost as bad as that.” Kind of dramatic, eh?
Mary Ruwart, research scientist, perrenial Libertarian Senatorial candidate and front runner for this year’s Libertarian Presidential ticket is being taken to task for comments she made in her book, Short Answers to Tough Questions. When discussing self choice in relation to child porn, she had this to say: “Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have [...]
Lanny Davis at the Huffington Post outlines the top ten “List of Undisputed Facts Showing Barack Obama’s Weakness in the General Election Against John McCain” and just when you thought it could not get any worse for the two candidates vying for the Democratic nomination, Jazz Shaw ponders, […] at this point I have begun to [...]
I am stinking mad. This is a horrifying waste and I have to chalk one up for the NDP too. Here is what their justice critic Peter Kormos said: “It’s objectionable and deplorable that this government would not want to know why an innocent person could be convicted in the first place, would not [...]
Now that the National Post has wrapped up it’s series on “Canada’s Biggest Mistake”, I figure that us Blogging Tories can add in our own takes. If you’re interested in participating, I ask that you leave me a comment (I don’t read them much these days anymore, but I’ll make an exception here) and [...]
Second-highest gross earnings for a documentary in its opening weekend! (the #1 spot goes to Michael Moore’s movie that glorifies the Canadian health care system as being efficient…). Well at least that aliens seeding our genetic guts on the backs of crystals theory is getting a nice bit of exposure; thanks Richard Dawkins! Sponsored [...]
This is the second of my series on the three remaining Presidential candidates, the first of which can be found several posts down, on McCain. Hillary Clinton is currently written off by almost everyone, including me. She will inevitable finish second to Obama in delegates heading into the convention, regardless of how Pennsylvania and Indiana play out. North Carolina [...]
Small Dead Animals has a post up about how people are starting to grasp how the internet is changing how media is both created and consumed - specifically newsmedia. While it is true that blogging and other types of electronic dissemination are changing how people get informed, turning the news into something interactive and globalized, but [...]
Something rare happened over the course of the last week for me: I struggled to write a post for this website. I knew what I wanted to write on, and some points that I wanted to make, yet discussing the Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed! documentary (now in theatres across America) has yielded more reaction [...]
At this point in the primaries, it seems very probable that Obama will win the Democratic nomination. I support Clinton in the contest, and while history tells us to never write off a Clinton, I must say that it looks like Barrack is inevitable. So the question that comes to mind for conservatives is twofold: First, can [...]
This is music to my ears! The Bloc Québécois is poised to table potentially controversial legislation giving Quebec the power to opt out of the national Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and set up its own telecommunications regulator. Hopefully the Bloc succeeds and leads the way to the eventual dissolution of the entire Commission.
C’mon Garth, you could’ve waited a few weeks before directly stating that another organization were thieves (on national television too!) after the threats that you made to this site’s owner over a post I wrote. Of course, you’ll probably say you’re allowed to use such words, being in opposition and all or that you’re [...]
What is this? a subsidy by any other name? Canadian pork producers are being bailed out with $50 Million going to farmers for culling their swine. The goal is to deliberately reduce the supply to the market in an attempt to raise prices. The program will pay farmers $225 per breeding swine killed [...]
There was quite a bit of anger among conservatives in Canada last week when the boys in Ottawa blocked the sale of a Canadian (space) satellite division to an American buyer. Gerry Nicholls railed against the decision by a Minister of Industry who is admittedly not so inclined to keep industries prosperous, given some of [...]
How insane is Canada? Or is it just Canada’s media? We are already intimately familiar with the media elites, uniting in solidarity to cut off Canadians from viewing the “offensive content” produced by the Danish cartoonists a few years ago. In their own eyes, they were righteous in their roles as gatekeepers of knowledge, to keep us [...]
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