Hmm! Is That Our Dulltoon McGoonty In The Front Row...

Ottawa’s surprise health-care offer is a good one

Tim Harper: Time for painful provincial health-care decisions

Health funding limits COULD force reforms, says hospital group president
Ottawa's plan to scale back health transfers could help root out waste in the system, says the president of the Ontario Hospital Association.

...BUT WILL HEALTH CARE MANDARINS AND BEARUCRATS AT THE PROVINCIAL LEVEL LET THAT HAPPEN? I DOUBT IT...

Charest, McGuinty Canada’s least popular premiers: poll
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall harvested the highest approval rating among the country’s premiers in a recent cross-Canada poll, while the leaders of the country's most populous provinces finished last

Another Feather In McGoonty's Hat...

As the Caledonian occupation comes to a close in court, its issues linger
Years after the height of the fiery native occupation in Caledonia, tensions over the still-occupied site are set to flare again as non-native activists promised to march onto the site to raise a Canadian flag

Culture of racism behind beating of non-native builder by Caledonia activist: lawyer

Caledonia assault sentencing not a platform, judge warns

...all of the failures in Ontario get the media attention while the following is just a filler

B.C. First Nation buys ownership stake in Enbridge pipeline

Father (Premier Dad) Knows Best...

Mallick: Queen’s Park gambling feeds the worm

By Heather Mallick

Mon Aug 16 2010

 

Government-run online gaming invites human self-destruction

A Must Read For Everyone

Don’t protect us from our cash: Goldstein

By Lorrie Goldstein

Based on his economic record, how would you like Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty dispensing your retirement funds?

School Day, Schoold Days..........

Cottage Industries WANT Parents To Abrogate Their Responsiilities

Kevin Libin: When Conservatives apologize for being conservative

Posted: June 19, 2009, 5:07 PM by Kevin Libin

Why Iris Evans upset certain people is obvious. The Alberta Finance minister told a Toronto audience this week that, in her opinion, when parents are “raising children you don't both go off to work and leave them for somebody else to raise.” Having a parent stay at home, she said, was “raising children properly.” Cue predictable reaction from social liberals and welfare-statists here. “Truly outrageous,” said Alberta Liberal leader David Swann, insisting the premier fire her for the comments, if she didn't retract them. “Disrespectful,” said Martha Friendly, executive director of Toronto’s Childcare Resource and Research Unit.

The minister apologized. What’s not quite so obvious is, why she felt she needed to.

As one political watcher put it to me, we now have purported conservatives apologizing for expressing conservative views.

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Stephn Might Get A Job With CTC....McGoonty Wouldn't Pass The Honesty Test

Chris Selley's Full Pundit:

The birth of Harper-McGuinty Motors

Bob Who.......

Bob Rae-"Employment Insurance has now become an issue of national unity," Dink of the Day, Week, Month, Year.
CAW Workers Voice Of Reason

And The Losers Are........The 60% That Vote

New voting system two-time loser Goldstein: Here's hoping referenda to change our first-past-the-post voting system don't become like Quebec referenda to separate from Canada. That is, proponents of the idea get to keep holding votes and losing, until they finally win.. MORE...

The Other Napolen Didn't Have A Good Grip On Reality Either

Janet Napolitano screws up again
April 22, 2009 01:56 PM by Michelle Malkin

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National Review is wrong: America can't do better than Janet Napolitano
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 12:58 PM

Comments: 10

The National Post has hit one out of the park. The brutal lashing delivered to US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has been showcased on the Drudge Report, and praised by the National Review. But I think the National Review makes a mistake when it states that President Barack Obama could have done better than appoint someone as monumentally ignorant as Janet Napolitano to this most important post.
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A diplomatic kerfuffle ...

Myth of Canada as terror haven

Napolitano: Canada more lax than US about whom it lets in ...

The little-known northern border ...

The border for dummies ...

Borderline paranoia

Comments On Candidates "Indescretions"

First of all, and this applies to all parties, it is evident that vetting of candidates leaves much to be desired and we should remember that the people making those decisions are in many cases going to be couselling those candidates when parliament opens. Second, I don't understand why it is the opposition that wants those candidates removed from the ticket...it shows little regard for supporting freedom of expression and it is up to the voters to decide whether the candidate is worthy of going to Ottawa.

Comments haunt more Tory, Liberal candidates

The Kingdom Of Toronto

Comrade Miller's Perception

Any Sane Person's Perception

Our very own absolute monarch TheStar.com - comment - Our very own absolute monarch

April 07, 2008

Re:Mayor defends push for more

power

April 5

It is disappointing, yet again, to hear Toronto's mayor push for greater powers to allow him to do his job more effectively. Labelling them as "discreet" and "structural changes" does not change the fact that David Miller is attempting to turn Toronto into a city state and the mayor's role into something out of Machiavelli's The Prince.

It would be nice if the changes benefit the residents of Toronto, but how is that possible when the consequences are so much worse? For example, the city manager, as Toronto's head administrator, should be separate from the policy role of the mayor's office and the chairs of most of the city's policy committees. The city must be allowed to function irrespective of political influences.

In the case of in-camera meetings of the executive committee, a lack of transparency would not be beneficial to anyone but the mayor. Finally, the ineffectiveness of the integrity commissioner and the auditor general as checks on city council are well-documented.

Larry Perlman, Toronto

Toronto doesn't need a corporate-style CEO

David Lewis Stein Apr. 07, 2008
They are making a big mistake. Mayor David Miller and Premier Dalton McGuinty are out to install a corporate model for running the City of Toronto even though they don't exactly explain it that way.

The Hard, Cold Facts Of Life

AT&T CEO says hard to find skilled U.S. workers

Wed Mar 26, 9:39 PM ET

The head of the top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Wednesday it was having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 customer service jobs it promised to return to the United States from India.

"We're having trouble finding the numbers that we need with the skills that are required to do these jobs," AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson told a business group in San Antonio, where the company's headquarters is located.

So far, only around 1,400 jobs have been returned to the United States of 5,000, a target it set in 2006, the company said, adding that it maintains the target.

Stephenson said he is especially distressed that in some U.S. communities and among certain groups, the high school dropout rate is as high as 50 percent.

"If I had a business that half the product we turned out was defective or you couldn't put into the marketplace, I would shut that business down," he said.

Gone are the days when AT&T and other U.S. companies had to hire locally, he said.

"We're able to do new product engineering in Bangalore as easily as we're able to do it in Austin, Texas," he said, referring to the Indian city where many international companies have "outsourced" technical and customer support workers.

"I know you don't like hearing that, but that's the way it is," he said.

Stephenson said neither he nor most Americans liked the situation, and the solution was a stronger U.S. focus on education and keeping jobs. Business needed to help, such as AT&T's repatriation of service positions and education grants, he added.

(Reporting by Jim Forsyth; Editing by Gary Hill)

Seeking a kinder word for failure

Another example of the stupid Leftist belief in verbal magic. They think that changing the word changes the reality:

"To soothe the bruised egos of educators and children in lackluster schools, Massachusetts officials are now pushing for kinder, gentler euphemisms for failure.

Instead of calling these schools "underperforming," the Board of Education is considering labeling them as "Commonwealth priority," to avoid poisoning teacher and student morale.

Schools in the direst straits, now known as "chronically underperforming," would get the more urgent but still vague label of "priority one."

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All Sizzle....No Steak

What happens to the power factor when all the lights are turned on at the same time?

Minutes count when saving Earth
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

Updated: 3 minutes ago

This Saturday, March 29, starting at 8 p.m., 24 "global cities," including Toronto, will be participating in "Earth Hour." The aim is to encourage people to turn their lights off for an hour to promote awareness of man-made global warming.

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McGinty Needs To Give His Head A Shake

Made-in-Ontario problem On the eve of a budget did Dalton notice the good times are over in this province?

By CHRISTINA BLIZZARD

In one of the most bizarre communications exercises in recent memory, Premier Dalton McGuinty showed up at a GO station to show off 12 new double-decker buses -- that were made in Scotland.

At the same time, he announced a massive $1 billion infrastructure spending program.

What made this so off-the-wall was the timing.

While McGuinty was busy showing off the McBuses, back in the Legislature, MPPs were voting on Timmins-James Bay New Democrat Gilles Bisson's private member's bill that would require 50% made-in-Ontario content for new transit vehicles.

The Liberals voted against it.

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UN Considers Toronto World Class......

......world class drug dealers.

Smoked for our crack policy
Fri, March 7, 2008

UN fires on Toronto, Ottawa for being little better than drug traffickers

Good morning, and welcome to crack central.

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Left Wing/Liberals Decry Tax Breaks For The "RICH"

How many people do you know can afford to put $5000/year into an education trust fund? I commend those parents who scrimp and save for their children's education but I have to wonder why this is the first we have heard of it and I would also ask Stephen how in the world the liberals could "SNEAK" legislation like this through the house....

Ottawa vows to block education tax shelter

Tories go on defensive after Liberal MP sneaks bill through Commons that would allow parents to set aside up to $5,000 each year

KEVIN CARMICHAEL AND CAMPBELL CLARK

From Friday's Globe and Mail

March 7, 2008 at 12:24 AM EST

OTTAWA — The Harper government vowed Thursday to kill legislation introduced by a Liberal MP and quietly passed by the House of Commons that would allow parents to contribute up to $5,000 a year to their children's education and deduct it from their income tax.

The measure would cost the government $900-million and wreak havoc with projections contained in last week's federal budget, which predicted a razor-thin surplus of $2.3-billion in the next fiscal year and $1.3-billion the following year.

“We will do everything in our power to stop this bill from progressing further as it represents a flagrant abuse by the Liberals of the use of private members business in order to spend taxpayers' money,” said Chisholm Pothier, spokesman for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.

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Another Liberal Attempt Down The Toilet

March 3, 2008

Attention Left-Wing Fever Swamp: Is Dona Cadman Lying Now?

Now that Dona Cadman has cleared the air and confirmed everything Stephen Harper has been saying the past few days, I must ask the left-wing fever swamp the following question: “Are you calling Dona Cadman a liar?”

Dona Cadman’s personal statement - March 3, 2008

March 3, 2008

Personal Statement by Dona Cadman

I’m a little bit surprised at the level of reaction to the disclosures in Tom Zytaruk’s book and I guess that’s probably because it was put to rest in my mind, when I discussed the matter with Stephen Harper, 2 ½ years ago. At that time, I recall specifically asking him if he was aware of a million dollar insurance policy offer, that upset Chuck so much.

He looked me straight in the eyes and told me he had no knowledge of an insurance policy offer. I knew he was telling me the truth; I could see it in his eyes. He said, yes he’d had some discussions with two individuals about asking Chuck to rejoin the party, but he’d told them they were wasting their time trying to convince Chuck.

From that point forward…. I didn’t regard it as a “Party” initiative, but rather; the overzealous indiscretion of a couple of individuals…. whose identity, Chuck never revealed to me.

It all comes back to my conversation with the Prime Minister…. 2 ½ years ago. I want to be perfectly clear in that regard. Chuck liked, respected and trusted Stephen Harper. I like, respect and trust Stephen Harper. If I didn’t believe in my heart, that he was telling me the truth…. I wouldn’t be running as the Conservative Candidate for Surrey North.

Dona Cadman

TDSB Solutions To Problems

This move will:

* eliminate gang violence
* reduce teen pregnancy
* teach parental responsibility
* set achievable standards for failure
* provide an income for social in-activists

T.O. Board Trustees Approve Black-Focused School After Furious Debate

Four strategies define the Toronto District School Board's plan to improve 'the success of Black students.'

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Kennedy And McGinty's Idea Of Improving The Education System

Pseudo graduates will want real money when they enter the workforce and these will be the leaders of tomorrow.

January 23, 2008 Graduation rate inflated by 'pseudo-credits'?

By MOIRA MacDONALD

End of January and 'tis the season for teachers working in semestered high schools to crank out first semester marks.

But for well over a year, high school teachers have been complaining that pressure to graduate more students -- stemming from a provincial commitment to boost high school graduation rates to 85% in three years -- is resulting in artificially-inflated marks and artificially-earned course credits that do not reflect students' true abilities or efforts.

"If there is any way to pass a student, we are encouraged to do it," one Toronto high school teacher told me.

"There is certainly a sense ... that principals are pushing more and more for teachers to pump the marks up to lessen the failure rate," Doug Joliffe, president of the union local for Toronto's public high school teachers, told me. But, he added, "not failing students is not the same as teaching them."

It has been a long-held practice that teachers do not give a mark of 49; they either give a clear failure of something around 45 or put the mark up over 50. But, teachers say, the situation has become worse.

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