Category Archives: Economy & Industry

Recession? Who Said Anything About a Recession?

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 […]

Bill C-51 is pharmaceutical protectionism

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 […]

Enviro-Bullying and Clear-Conscience Oil

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 […]

Christian Horizons: Coren’s Thoughts

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 […]

The Rich-Poor Gap

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 […]

Selling Off the Resources

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 […]

Did the TTC Just Kill It’s Sweet Public-Private Partnership Deal?

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 […]

Expelled Opening Weekend Income

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!

Quebec to secede from the CRTC ??

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.

Slow death for Canadian pork industry

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 […]