One thing common to successful dictators is an uncanny ability to size up one’s opponents and strike their weak points. Hitler had an uncanny ability to perceive the motivations of foreign statesmen, until this ability failed him in 1939. Stalin and Mao were experts at political infighting, able to play their opponents off against one […]
Terrorist group Hamas has won an unexpected landslide victory in the Palestinian elections, claiming 76 of 132 seats. Hamas is officially recognised as a terrorist organization by the European Union, the USA, Israel and Canada, but this win has given it a new legitimacy. Although terrorists are not permitted to run for political office in […]
The magnetic North Pole is moving away from Canada and towards Siberia. Hollywood bad science aside, I’m curious to know if the environmental usual suspects will claim that this is somehow the work of human hands, just as they claim that the recovery of the Earth from the late-medieval mini ice age is somehow the […]
Paul Martin has pledged that his government would spend millions in the automotive sector. This is a recycled NDP idea, so what I said before still applies:
…Currently, vehicles are manufactured in a variety of places, and many car companies have taken to building vehicles in foreign countries with low wage rates. Ford and BMW build […]
The last entry I made was to lambast the wrongheadedness of Jack Layton’s proposed trade war with the USA. Stephen Harper has come up with a much better campaign promise today. Basically, he proposes to increase the amount of pension funds that senior citizens can shelter from income taxes from $1000 to $2000.
It’s not a […]
The NDP has a new idea for damaging US-Canadian relations and making Canadians poorer. Despite promises to the contrary, this seems to be all the NDP is really good for, as I’ve shown previously. Our own contributor Kaqchikel has already drawn attention to the aspect of the US-Canadian trade war that this may bring about […]
It seems to me that Ralph Klein of Alberta and Dalton McGuinty of Ontario are cut from the same cloth, and both seem engaged in a race to run their provinces into the ground. Neither has a clue what they are doing and both spout goals which their policies seem designed to prevent. Being a […]
Federal politics in Canada is a zero-sum game: winner takes all. The province that has the most electoral power will be able to impose its will upon the others. As long as the demographic nature of the provinces persists, this means that Ontario (and to a lesser extent, Quebec) will be able to govern Alberta […]
A small Hollywood business looks set to be one of the first victims of a US Supreme Court decision that expands upon eminent domain law. David Mach, the son of the family, says that they received several requests to sell the property, but they can’t refuse the latest one because the City of Hollywood is […]
J. Franklin’s recent post brings to mind the idea of child labour. Of course, we all know the history of child labour: big, bad capitalists in the Industrial Revolution made children work in the mines etc., until wonderful, benevolent government stepped in to end this barbaric practice.
Wrong!
Child labour was a fact of life throughout human […]
