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Postal service expected to resume on Tuesday 230

Report On Business

Postal dispute was never about pensions, new hires

The Harold Ballard Approach When Leafs Dominated Hockey...

To the Winner Goes The Spoils

Silliness Abounds On Both Sides...

...and the provides a field day for editorial cartonists.

Campaign Becoming Casting Call For Three Stooges Movie...

Toronto election: A look at each candidates' personality

Fri May 07 2010

After Wednesday’s colourful mayoral debate between George Smitherman and Rob Ford, the question of character has become the predominant Toronto election issue. 

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  Toronto's Mayoral Race

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Call Me When Summer Doldrums End.....

.....and the apathy of Canadians kicks back in.

Harper Tories open big lead on Liberals: poll shows

Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have surged to a big lead over the opposition Liberals, a new poll shows, a trend that could dampen speculation...

IPSOS SHOCKER: CON 39% LIB 28%

Ignatieff feels summer heat Chief of staff faces rancour over alleged favouritism as party aims to get in fighting shape for the fall.. MORE...

Is Canada Up To The Challenges

We know where Stephen and Jack are.......

Four challenges we need to start thinking about
by Carol Goar

Let's Not Obamanize Health Care

Privatized health care: Canada's third rail

At last year’s annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association, president Dr. Brian Day revealed himself as the enemy of the force......

• Posted Podcast: Kevin Libin on why we can't reform health care

• Kevin Libin: The non-debate on health care

We Certainly Can.......

....bring our people home and replace them with war resisters,US deserters, etc.

When I Saw The Headline I Thought It Was An Expose Of Miller Or McGoonty

Ontario man leader of notorious pranksters, website claims

Dalson Chen, Canwest News Service

WINDSOR, ONT -- A New York-based investigative website claims that the ringleader of an online gang of malicious phone pranksters is an unemployed 25-year-old Ontario man.

According to The Smoking Gun, the founder of the Internet group Pranknet -- which in the past had convinced its victims to smash televisions, publicly strip off clothing and drink urine -- lives with his mother in a small apartment in Windsor, Ont.

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If Nothing Else They Add New Labels To The Lexicon

Phony Courts Phony Racism- Human Rights Commissions - Threat to Justice - Lorne Gunter - Guesting with Charles Adler at 4:30(et) 2:30 (mt)

8/1/2009 5:13:35 AM

Phony courts, phony racism *Lorne Gunter, National Post * As if more proof were needed of how out-of-control Canada's human-rights commissions have become, and what a threat they pose to impartial justice, along comes the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal's ruling...

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The Blame Gamers Add Another Target

Peter Shawn Taylor: Saving the world now requires disliking IKEA. It's an order.

Posted: July 31, 2009, 9:45 AM by NP Editor

Wal-Mart is more than just the home to everyday low prices. It’s also a magnet for environmentalists, enemies of capitalism, community organizations, traffic planners, religious groups, unions and just about anyone else with a beef.

As such, it makes life a little easier for more than just consumers. Other retailers also catch a break when all available anger is focused on the devil from Bentonville.

That free ride may soon be over. Judging by the new book Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, by Atlantic Monthly correspondent Ellen Ruppel Shell, Swedish furniture retailer IKEA could be next on the angry list.

Shell’s thesis is that a fixation on low prices has ruined the world. Global trade and cheap labour have lowered expectations among consumers and robbed us of our ability to spot good quality merchandise. Cheap is everywhere, and it’s always bad.
You’d expect Wal-Mart to be on the receiving end of most of Shell’s screed. But IKEA gets its own chapter, which was recently excerpted in a Toronto newspaper.

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Should They Save You A Chair?

Will The Charles Adlers Of The Worl Become Redundant

monologue today on charlesadler - corus radio network

7/28/2009 4:48:59 AM

Great to be back folks after one very, very relaxing week...I know some of you who follow me on Twitter and Facebook think I don't relax because I still find ways of updating the sites constantly...Trust me folks..I am not...

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Scientist Worry about Too Much Artificial Intelligence --Creating viruses that defy destruction --Are we aspiring to the "cockroach" stage ?

7/28/2009 4:48:59 AM

July 26, 2009 Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man By JOHN MARKOFF - NY Times A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones , which, though...

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It Is A Chicken And Egg Quandary But....

....we have social in-activists and other special interest groups and the citizenry at large asking for more and improved services and lower taxes and the politicos cave into these demands.

Who’s to blame?
Terry Corcoran says we should be pointing fingers at the union – not just at David Miller, as the Toronto strike drags on with no end in sight: ...On one level, personalizing Toronto’s civic workers’ strike as a Miller problem may work in getting rid of David Miller. He certainly seems to have brought this on [...]
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I blame them both
Terence Corcoran has a good piece blaming cupe more than miller for more than a month of Toronto refuse not being picked up.
I blame them both. However Corcoran makes good points. The unions have succeeded in rewarding sloth and protecting the incompetent. Its true that this has been going in Toronto during the tenure of many mayors. What is the solution? will it take the bankruptcy of the city , like for GM, to finally get the unions to understand the damage they are doing. It is funny to watch union members complain about how expensive it is to live in Toronto without realizing that their costs are a big part of the problem. This is happening across Canada's cities.
Hopefully miller will soon be gone and a more center right mayor will be elected. Unfortunately i don't see anyone in the wings who will be willing to take on the union stranglehold and think about the citizens of the city first.


Like all union leaders, CUPE chiefs just make stuff up. The sick-leave unfunded liability, estimated at $140-million for the striking workers, is said to be an "accounting fantasy." Unions always say things like that about unfunded liabilities. The auto workers dismissed their unfunded pension liability as a non-problem until their pensions couldn't be paid. Then they blamed management for failing to properly manage the company and the liability, for which they should have prepared. While Miller is being hanged, the union operatives are getting away with murder. There is no winning against union arguments. Anyone who gets into a debate with union brass risks a mean personal battle. As part of the CBC Radio debate over the Toronto strike, Jim Stanford of the Canadian Auto Workers lit in to Catherine Swift of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business with a typical ad hominem: "She makes five or six times as much money as the people on the picket lines, but she's still pointing the finger."

With mean-spirited class warfare on its side, the union is winning the battle. The worse the Mayor and city hall look in public opinion, the more CUPE can count on a city capitulation to union preferences.

Eventually, the strike will end and Toronto CUPE members will return to work and the garbage will be picked up again. In the end, even if Mr. Miller is gone, nothing will have been done to rewrite Toronto's dismal union-dominated financial outlook. But CUPE's Paul Moist -- who should have been the Maclean's cover story this week -- will still be around, doing his shtick.

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Simeon (Sam) George Drakich said...

Toronto's CUPE strike is peanuts compared to Windsor's CUPE strike that is heading into it's fourth month.
Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis invited himself to the negotiation table with great arrogance and incompetence. Eddie told CUPE that he and he alone is deserving of pay raise and retirement benefits, poisoning the talks at the onset.
Mayor and council gave themselves a 15% pay raise two years retroactively plus another 3% on top,the mayor's office's operating cost was extended to over a million dollars.
Windsorites have endured an 86% increase in water, that have found their way into the city's treasury not utilities.
The mayor and council have increased the taxes via a backdoor mill rate increase while all the while singing self praise of only a marginal tax increase.
Windsor has no culture but the legacy of corruption and incompetence, Toronto has it made in the shade.

Economic Reality

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In Obamaland.....

The question to ask is; "What are you willing to give up?"

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I Would Down A Cool One With Jean But....

.....I can say the same about Conrad

The Queen scores one for the rabble

Corcoran Versus Simpson! eems Like A "Fair" Fight

BTW.....taxes are not always bad but the way they are sometimes spent is questionable. Look At "No New Taxes McGoonty's" health tax.

Terence Corcoran: The frightening thought that taxes are bad

Posted: July 14, 2009, 8:34 PM by NP Editor

Jeffrey Simpson turns a sound Harper tax comment into a ‘scary, scary’ idea

By Terence Corcoran

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he Reverend Jeffrey Simpson, keeper of The Globe and Mail’s firm grasp on conventional gospel, the Al Sharpton of Canadian Liberalism, an old fogie from the day he began writing his Globe column in 1949, knee-jerk anti-Conservative and now fire-and-brimstone preacher of climate doom, champion of carbon controls and higher taxation as the path to salvation: You know who I’m talking about.

Yesterday, Rev. Simpson worked himself up into a righteous lather over comments Prime Minister Stephen Harper made about taxation following the G8 summit last week in Italy. “You know, there’s two schools in economics on this. One is that there are some good taxes and the other is that no taxes are good taxes. I’m in the latter category. I don’t believe that any taxes are good taxes.”

With this quote as fuel, Rev. Simpson propelled himself and his Liberal congregation into a hysterical anti-Conservative, anti-Harper orbit. “This assertion,” wrote Mr. Simpson, “is one of the most stunning, revealing and, frankly, ignorant statements ever made by a prime minister, let alone one who keeps purporting to be an economist, despite doing so many things that economists deplore.”

And, he continued:

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Read The Postings To My Comments For Proof.....

Letters to the Editor

By SUN READERS

There is an old saying -- it is better to be thought of as a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Whoever writes those idiotic responses to readers' letters certainly removes all doubt with some of the responses he or she writes.

And An Empty Pocket For The Atheists