Oh here’s a breakthrough in medical economics. Canada’s creaky, inefficient, prohibitively expensive free health care system would work better if people didn’t get as sick as much and when they did they got “safe, high-quality care when and where they need it.” Why didn’t I think of that… this time? Click here to read the rest.
Here’s a surprise. Ontario’s all-day kindergarten program to produce the creative, secure, early developing multicultural Wunderkinds of the future is in trouble. Cost overruns? Pedagogic issues? Um no. Seems they haven’t managed to build the classroom space on time. Click here to read the rest.
Weird. Britain’s Daily Telegraph says Rome faces bankruptcy. Oh well.Back to what great thing politicians are going to do for us next.
This just in: Canadians are disgusted with political parties. We think politicians don’t care what voters think. Click here to read the rest.
OK, now the choice is clear. When it comes to balancing the budget thereare two starkly different options in the political arena. Voters rejoice.
Imagine an anthropologist came to study Canada’s strange public rituals from some unspoiled region where only birds tweet and “reality television” could not be explained even if someone could be found who wanted to know. Upon encountering the thing known as a “federal budget,” he might well release a cloud of arrows to cover his precipitous flight back to a blessed homeland where “fiscal federalism” would be ceremonially incinerated if it ever intruded. But if not, what would he record for his bewildered fellows? Click here to read the rest.
So King Barack has had it with legislatures. My, that’s original. Or not. Didn’t Richard Nixon come up with it? And Richard II. Click here to read the rest.
Prime Minister Harper’s Mideast trip was going pretty well until I opened the paper and saw him handing Jordan about $100 million. Man. That’s one expensive photo-op. Click here to read the rest.