Strip-searching a father because his four-year-old sketched a toy gun at school paints a perfect picture of progressive public education: absurd yet sinister. On the Keystone Kops side, if police took the girl's now-vanished doodle of her father fighting monsters and bad guys seriously, why not search his home for villains, or werewolves, before a gun?
Premier Dalton McGuinty is getting pseudo-tough on spending. He even paid Don Drummond $1,500 a day to chair a Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services, whose 362 sensible recommendations delivered Wednesday won't help. Click here to read more.
The other night I’m on the couch eating microwaved leftover frozen pizza with nacho sauce and watching someone pan-sear cod with a blood-orange sorbet sabayon on the Food Channel. And I’m wondering why people don’t serve better meals... especially to the sick. Click here to read the rest.
Western patience with Syria seems to have run out. Options for action might well be limited even without Russian and Chinese opposition. But while dictators like Bashar al-Assad are not much given to introspection, he could be wondering what's different this time. Click here to read the rest.
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper's vague musings about modest reforms to Canada's public pension system, addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, have the opposition howling about a "war on pensions" and the Conservatives "attacking seniors." Such rhetoric is as predictable as it is unhelpful. Click here to read the rest.
Do I repeat myself? Very well, then, I repeat myself. Until a major problem goes away you shouldn’t stop warning about it. And the Harper government’s reckless, meddlesome, big-spending interventionism has not gone away. Click here to read the rest.
Once Parliament returns next week, its main business should be scrutinizing the budget expected by early March. It's going to be a mess: way too much spending, borrowing and handouts through tax loopholes. But they won't scrutinize it unless we make them. And by accident or design Canadian government budgets are almost impossible for citizens to understand. Click here to read the rest.