Bring the soldiers home!

What the hell is going on in Afghanistan?

Income splitting should start now — not in five years!

There certainly may be better ways to cut taxes than income splitting but if income splitting is a good thing, Stephen Harper should plan to do it now.
The Conservative party campaign promise to allow dual-income families to save taxes after the deficit is cleared is just a hollow promise. They have to come up with a more responsible promise than this. It is not even a fair promise. Excluding single-income families is obscene favoritism.

The Election Race on Facebook

As of Sunday, March 27, at 9:30pm EST, Prime Minister Stephen Harper leads Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff in Facebook fans.

The Conservative leader has 43,055 fans. The Liberal leader has a couple of thousand supporters fewer: 40,895.

What can this comparison tell about whose party will win on May 2? About as much as we can glean from public opinion polls conducted today, five weeks before voting day: nothing.

Return of funeral insurance in Quebec

From the looks of things, the Quebec government plans to reverse a ban on funeral insurance. Not surprisingly, funeral home operators are now worried and wanting to block the legal reversal because their pre-planned funeral arrangements will face stiff competition. For nearly forty years, la Belle Province was the only place in Canada where such insurance was unavailable having been outlawed in the early seventies by a government keen on protecting its populace from being solicited by insurance agents.

The insurance companies should be free to insure anything they want but the funeral homes are being shafted. The banks/insurance companies have an unfair advantage because they print money. Economically, the funeral companies will be competing with the banks which are nothing more than tax-payer subsidized competitors. Soon, the insurance companies will be able to expand their base upon which their devious accounting tricks hide the inflation of the money supply.