If you voted for Dalton McGuinty...
...in the last election... you forfeited your right to bitch about high taxes...EHealth Ontario CEO Sarah Kramer's six-figure bonus was double the maximum rate allowed at the Crown-owned agency, a spokeswoman for the organization has confirmed.In early March, four months after Kramer started her post at the newly created agency, its board of directors approved a $114,000 bonus, on top of her $380
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Showing posts with label Right Is Right. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Right Is Right. Show all posts
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
You Gotta Click On Both........
Mickey I. on the US: "This is your country as much as it is mine."
Written by Mark
Another fine National Post columnist, Lorne Gunter, is rather taken aback by Liberal hypocrisy (who'd a thunk that?).....
Written by Mark
Another fine National Post columnist, Lorne Gunter, is rather taken aback by Liberal hypocrisy (who'd a thunk that?).....
Saturday, April 25, 2009
We Can Handle Anything The Critics Throw....
An attack on Stephen Harper, or just clever continuous journalism?
Yeah, I'll catch flak from conservatives on this one, but I just don't see what's wrong with the Harperdex.
Click the title to read the whole story...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
If You Are Right You Are Right
Conservative Government - always on the move - getting it done!The Prime Minister and Minister Dianne Finley recently visited Fanshawe College in London, Ontario to announce budget initiatives to assist workers. Stockwell Day and Lawrence Cannon finished a two day visit to Afhanistan announcing that Canada will spend 21 Million over a period of two years to pay the salaries of Afghan police officer and prison guards. The money will be administered by a UConservative Reporter
Friday, March 06, 2009
The Liberal Con And The Actual Facts
As someone has already pointed out if the liberals want to increase revenue ask the feds to allow them to collect taxes on cigarettes avoided by indian bands......
Colby Cosh: A (superficial) study in smoking
Posted: March 06, 2009, 7:23 AM by NP Editor
The Ontario government announced on Wednesday that it will introduce legislation allowing it to recover past and ongoing health care costs borne by Ontario taxpayers due to tobacco-related illness. Without reading another sentence, you all know that this effort will be accompanied by a corporal’s guard of the most wretched inventions and exaggerations. The news release announcing the initiative featured a quote from Health Minister David Caplan: “At over $1.6-billion annually, Ontario’s tobacco-related health care costs affect all Ontarians.” Did a little voice in your head just chirp that increasingly popular stock phrase from Wikipedia: citation needed?
The backgrounder attached to the presser repeats the $1.6-billion claim, and does provide a source: a study called The Costs of Substance Abuse in Canada 2002. 2002? All right, well ignore the fact that this number hasn’t been properly spruced up in a while. But one cracks open the study itself, only to immediately find that it contains some surprising language:
“The study we are describing here is a cost-of-illness study presenting aggregate costs, which are calculated by looking at all the external costs of substance abuse and comparing them with a hypothetical situation where no substance abuse exists. Another kind of cost estimate is the avoidable cost, which makes an important distinction between all costs generated by substance abuse and the portion of those costs that could be avoided by establishing appropriate policies and programs. The current study provides an essential foundation for other types of cost estimates such as avoidable costs and therefore makes a valuable contribution to policy making and health care planning in Canada. However, it does not measure the impact of substance abuse on government expenditures and revenues.”
MORE FACTS
Colby Cosh: A (superficial) study in smoking
Posted: March 06, 2009, 7:23 AM by NP Editor
The Ontario government announced on Wednesday that it will introduce legislation allowing it to recover past and ongoing health care costs borne by Ontario taxpayers due to tobacco-related illness. Without reading another sentence, you all know that this effort will be accompanied by a corporal’s guard of the most wretched inventions and exaggerations. The news release announcing the initiative featured a quote from Health Minister David Caplan: “At over $1.6-billion annually, Ontario’s tobacco-related health care costs affect all Ontarians.” Did a little voice in your head just chirp that increasingly popular stock phrase from Wikipedia: citation needed?
The backgrounder attached to the presser repeats the $1.6-billion claim, and does provide a source: a study called The Costs of Substance Abuse in Canada 2002. 2002? All right, well ignore the fact that this number hasn’t been properly spruced up in a while. But one cracks open the study itself, only to immediately find that it contains some surprising language:
“The study we are describing here is a cost-of-illness study presenting aggregate costs, which are calculated by looking at all the external costs of substance abuse and comparing them with a hypothetical situation where no substance abuse exists. Another kind of cost estimate is the avoidable cost, which makes an important distinction between all costs generated by substance abuse and the portion of those costs that could be avoided by establishing appropriate policies and programs. The current study provides an essential foundation for other types of cost estimates such as avoidable costs and therefore makes a valuable contribution to policy making and health care planning in Canada. However, it does not measure the impact of substance abuse on government expenditures and revenues.”
MORE FACTS
Friday, December 12, 2008
It Is Going To Be A Couple Of Interesting Months For Political Junkies
We have two pseudo politicians who wouldn't look out of place in GQ and intellectually they are on par but one has not been bloodied in battle, yet, so it will be a couple of interesting months......
New leader wise to Harper's tactics
December 11, 2008
James TraversOTTAWA—
Stupid is not an adjective normally attached to a Prime Minister respected for brains as well as elbows. So Harper knows as well as Ignatieff that the menace now stalking the government isn't a fissured coalition or the new leader of a weak party pretending to be strong. It's the economy, genius.
Shrewd as he sometimes is, the Prime Minister got that horribly wrong in a fiscal update that provoked a crisis by attacking foes while not laying a glove on recession. Having come so close to losing a 7-week-old government, a miscalculation eclipsing even Joe Clark's 1979 defeat, Harper isn't about to repeat the mistake.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Nimbys Take Heed
Resistance Is Futile
Like it or not, big-box chains are migrating downtown. Instead of mounting protests, urbanites should embrace the monster-retail movement.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Your Daily Harper Minute
Or a reality check for those left wingers who are quick to condemn tories so that they don't have to face the reality of the liberal record.....this is borne out by this tidbit from Blogging Tories.......
Time to pull the plug
My, my. Some Liberals seem to be getting a mite testy lately… Western Grit calls Conservatives "…arrogant, pompous in-breeders…" And that’s just for starters. Well, if you can’t win by logic, try name-calling. It’s the standard Liberal strategy. Tom Flanagan paints a grim picture about Liberal finances. You know, if the Liberals are having trouble
Blue Like You |
......and from the msm.
Time to pull the plug
My, my. Some Liberals seem to be getting a mite testy lately… Western Grit calls Conservatives "…arrogant, pompous in-breeders…" And that’s just for starters. Well, if you can’t win by logic, try name-calling. It’s the standard Liberal strategy. Tom Flanagan paints a grim picture about Liberal finances. You know, if the Liberals are having trouble
Blue Like You |
......and from the msm.
- Don Martin: Harper's 'dysfunctional' record outshines 10 years of functional Chretien
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After deciding the House of Commons was too unstable to recall and cancelling a leaders’ summit due to scheduling difficulties, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s only justification for his saber-rattling rush to an election has become a dysfunctional Parliament.
Well, hogwash.
Sure, the atmosphere has been poisoned by MPs so sick of each other they’ve retreated inside their own party’s cocoon, refusing to play nice with outsiders.
But as Mr. Harper himself noted only nine months ago, this minority parliament works damn well.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
I Haven't Had Time To Commit The Old Sins.....
......so I doubt if I am going to spend much time feeling guilty about the new sins.
Media botches Vatican "sin" story
"A supposed list of 'new sins' from the Vatican, such as pollution and genetic manipulation, made headlines across the world on Monday. The list actually didn’t come from any official Catholic Church document, but from an interview of a bishop that was published in L'Osservatore Romano, the 'semi-official' newspaper in Vatican City, and it exposed the mainstream media’s fundamental misunderstanding of Christianity in general, and the Catholic Church specifically.
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"Archbishop Girotti said that the modern world does not understand the nature of sin. With their coverage of the interview, the mass media unintentionally underlined the prelate's point."
Monday, February 18, 2008
Thank Gawd For Huck's Safe Return
And a curse on the idiots who caused the owner so much anguish......
Staff Reporter
Huckleberry, the victim of a weekend dog-napping, has been returned safe and sound.
Dog-napped Lab returned home safely
BERT CLARK PHOTO
Huckleberry is a chocolate Labrador, weighing 85 pounds, has a sliver of white on his chest and may also be wearing a green collar.
No word on whether owner will pay out $15,000 reward offered for safe return of 'best friend'
February 18, 2008
Emma ReillyStaff Reporter
Huckleberry, the victim of a weekend dog-napping, has been returned safe and sound.
“Thank God he’s okay,” said owner Bert Clark. “I haven’t slept in two days. I’m a wreck.”
The chocolate Labrador was returned home late Sunday after police received a tip from the alleged doggy-nappers. Clark didn’t reveal whether or not he issued the $15,000 reward he promised, saying that the ordeal has left him too exhausted to comment.
“He’s healthy, he’s safe, and he’s happy to see me,” Clark said.
The dog was reported missing on Saturday morning after he disappeared outside a Yonge St. and Roxborough St. bakery.
Clark immediately offered $15,000 as a reward for the safe return of his dog.
"There isn't any sum of money that I would associate with him," Clark said last night during a break from searching for his pet. "Life isn't about money – it's about the connection you make with other souls. Huckleberry was like my soulmate."
Huckleberry went missing while he was in the care of a dog walker, Clark said. She left the pooch tied up outside a bakery at Roxborough andYonge Sts., and came out several minutes later to find him gone.
Monday, January 21, 2008
It Is Refreshing To See Objectivity In Blogging
In a recent post Canadian Cynic ask a question......
Ooopsie
Christ these people make me sick. Here’s a question – why aren’t all schoolchildren taught that there are special mental health risks associated with rightwing family values? I think that would better prepare them for life.
.......and I agree but it would certainly help if he was to detail what are these "special mental health risks" and would they not apply to leftwing family values as well. I was taught specifically when it came to sexual contact that if I wasn't careful I could contact syphllis, gonnarrea, and a multitude of other infection diseases, unwanted pregnancy. It would certainly be enlightening to know how leftwing family values deal with these situations.
Ooopsie
Christ these people make me sick. Here’s a question – why aren’t all schoolchildren taught that there are special mental health risks associated with rightwing family values? I think that would better prepare them for life.
.......and I agree but it would certainly help if he was to detail what are these "special mental health risks" and would they not apply to leftwing family values as well. I was taught specifically when it came to sexual contact that if I wasn't careful I could contact syphllis, gonnarrea, and a multitude of other infection diseases, unwanted pregnancy. It would certainly be enlightening to know how leftwing family values deal with these situations.
Sunday, January 06, 2008
I Can Only Hope That Some Of My Critics Will Also See The Light
Saturday, 5 January 2008
The Gipper
I leave you this fine evening with a column by Pat Buchanan. A quarter of a century ago, and as late as five years ago, I viewed Pat as the antichrist. I now agree with him about almost everything. Has he changed? Nope; he’s been right from the beginning.
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- Unhypentated Canadian
- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.