Thomas Mulcair and his socialist NDP party are ahead in the polls for the upcoming federal election, hot on the heels of the NDP Albertan sweep. Of course, polls are only slightly indicative of the political temper, but they do signify something. What this signifies is more than just ‘politics’ or some vague partisan […]
The NDP sweep in Alberta has been described as an ‘Orange Crush’, with the NDP colour smothering the Conservative blue and Liberal red. Others are calling it an Albertan apocalypse. There is a connection there, for Orange Crush is also a song by REM, who also penned the apocalyptic ballad ‘It’s the End of the […]
I have always disliked governmental budgets. Not because they are budgets, mind you, for it is a good thing to be careful with other people’s money, and ensure you spend it wisely, should they ever entrust with such a task. No, the problem is that governments around our globe, and particularly here in Canada, use […]
I think we can all agree that house prices in Canada are out of control, at least in any places where one might still find a job: Consider these numbers in urban areas around the country: To use the two most egregious examples, in Toronto the average price of a detached, single home is now […]
As a follow up to my column on the universal money pit that is the modern university, it turns out, as the National Post reported last Friday, now that the federal government has foisted $295 million in defaulted students loans onto the taxpayer (yes, you and me). That is on top of the $ 837 […]
The headline in the National Post this morning read that Greece has surrendered to the Germans. No, it was not from April, 1941, but February, 2015. Germany, victorious in 1941, was the poor man of Europe by 1945, is now again the European economic powerhouse, and carries most of the responsibility of bailing out the […]