Does Dalton McGuinty think I look like a sucker willing to bet all my money on red again? Yup. He’s considering casinos in Toronto and Ottawa to fight the deficit. Click here to read the rest.
The Ontario government just tried to crush the Ottawa Senators hockey club by taking away a tax break for businesses that take clients out to the game. It was irrational, politically inept, and stifled intelligent debate instead of stimulating it. Click here to read the rest.
When six British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron called it a “desperately sad day” for Britain. Look: I support the troops and yield to no one in my desire to see whoever planted that roadside bomb hunted down. But this was a scarily “teddy bear on the sidewalk” comment. Surely Britons are resolute, not crushed, when soldiers die on active duty. Click here to read the rest.
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.