We are all environmentalists now. So why aren't activists happy the RCMP is watching for terrorists infiltrating their organizations? Click here to read more.
So how about that high-flying health expert who whacked Alberta taxpayers for $487,000 a year in salary plus $346,000 in expenses in 3½ years at the Capital Health agency, then bonged eHealth in Ontario for over $75,000 a month as a consultant before getting hired as chief financial officer with Alberta Health Services? The Olympic magnitude of it inspires a certain awe. Click here to read more.
Even for a desperate politician, B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s attack on the Northern Gateway pipeline was exceptionally mean and stupid. It’s no accident Canadian provinces are not allowed to behave like highwaymen. But it is astounding that Clark doesn’t know it. Click here to read the rest.
Would you let Nazis buy Canadian oil fields? Or Stalinists? Well then, how about Mao’s bloodthirsty heirs? Click here to read the rest.
In recent weeks, the gloves have come off in the U.S. presidential election, revealing — nasty attack ads? Vacuity? Dishonesty? Or just more gloves? Compare 2012’s gentle hints about inability to understand the private sector or reluctance to pay high taxes with this blast at the Democratic candidate in 1828: “General Jackson’s mother was a common prostitute brought to this country by British soldiers. She afterward married a mulatto with whom she had many children, of whom Gen. Jackson is one.”
Here’s my solution to gun violence: A law against bullets travelling through air. Now right-thinking persons are liable to object that bullets don’t obey laws. OK, then, why do those same right-thinking persons want a ban on handguns even though criminals don’t obey laws?