Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Sunday, May 21, 2017

The "Trust Gap", "social licence" and the rule of law

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G iant PR firm, Edelman, does a global annual survey to gauge of the "trust" the public has in its institutions: 1) Government 2) ...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

The new cabinet: the good news, and the bad

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T he biggest problem isn't in the cabinet, it's the Marxist eco-radical and Trudeau best pal, Gerald Butts, in the PMO :
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Monday, December 15, 2014

"The cause of the Canada-U.S. price gap is obvious — the government"

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M ark Milke : ... the federal government recently introduced legislation — dubbed the Price Transparency Act — that will force retailers...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

James Moore's urge to micro-manage

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I f it isn't James Moore telling Tim Horton's how to run it's business,  it's James Moore policing prices at Toys R Us and...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Kathleen Wynne's self-destructive opportunitic mercantilism

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P eter Foster: Ontario’s anti-markets deal with Cisco a self-destructive case of ‘opportunist mercantilism’ The loudly-trumpeted news that...
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Sunday, December 8, 2013

CPC 10th Anniversary - list of accomplishments

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V ia Joanne's post  at BLU is the Conservative Party 10th Anniversary Top 10 List of Accomplishments.  In the BLU comments, Sandy of C...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Smart meters and the potential for encroachment by Big Brother

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People object for a number of reasons to the new "smart meter" technology being installed by power companies acro...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

The marijuana industry after legalization by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

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PM Justin Trudeau W illiam Watson predicts what a Canadian marijuana industry would look like if Justin should become PM.  For starters...
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Saturday, July 27, 2013

2013 "Council of the Federation" meeting a big flop

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A ndrew Coyne's excellent column today explains how the Premiers, instead of attending to matters within their own jurisdiction, wasted...
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Friday, June 7, 2013

Price fixing hypocrisy - criminal charges laid against chocolate companies

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T he charges, laid Thursday , come ... after Canada’s Competition Bureau ...  found evidence suggesting that a price-fixing cartel collabo...
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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Corruption in the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) + nitwit mayors and useless media

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T he Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is holding its annual conference in Vancouver this year.  This is the conference attended ...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

“You didn’t build that!” - why Obama thinks government is responsible for private sector success

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

No good deed goes unpunished

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I mmigration punishes dairy Farmer who doesn't hire illegal aliens
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Friday, June 22, 2012

In praise of Bill C-38

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F rom Environmentalism is Fascism comes an article entitled  In Praise of the Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act (Bill C-38) . It...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

"Hate 2.0: Combating the Radical Right ... "

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I f we needed another example proving that university humanities faculties are, at best, a waste of time and money here’s one proudly presen...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Jeremy Rifkin - Maurice Strong on stilts

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P eter Foster : ... Mr. Rifkin is the archetype of that creature known as the policy entrepreneur . He is a consistent generator of bad i...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

The BC HST is gone

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Good outcome !  I don't know if the HST is an economically superior taxation system or not.  Most economists think so - but given the ex...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

The micro-nanny state

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G ood grief ! Not having fitted sheets on hotel beds would now be a crime in California . This is not a joke. . . Actually, it is a joke....
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Steyn on the riots and the debt downgrade

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I t's all in his just released book, " After America ": ... Anyone who's read it will fully understand what's happen...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

Selective outrage

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M ark Steyn : “ It’s time to re-aim our pitchforks ” The News of the World hacking scandal versus the corrupt Atlanta Public School System (...