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.
On Tuesday, Wisconsin voters took the momentous step of not firing their governor. It's very good news for the United States, and probably Canada too. Click here to read more.
So the UN thinks Canada needs a national food policy. And some snooty Harvard-educated multi-professor of judicial fantasizing to come here, berate us for every sin in the left-wing catechism and urge us to wish away our problems. Well, we don't. Click here to read the rest.
Despite Parliament debating whether to figure out when human life begins, the sky failed to rain down on Canadians’ heads in savage blue chunks. Who saw that coming? Click here to read the rest.
Newfoundland and Labrador's latest budget makes it official. Only Saskatchewan is not dripping red ink. Every other province -- and the feds -- are bathing or at least washing their feet in the stuff. And yes, you should be worried. Click here to read the rest.
According to the fledgling Broadbent Institute, Canadians are so worried about inequality they want to pay higher taxes. Good luck campaigning on that. Still, I think these Institute guys are on to something. Click here to read the rest.
How about a second helping of hospital food? No, really. They’ll even trim the crusts off the egg salad sandwiches for you. They being the bistro staff at Ottawa’s Queensway Carleton Hospital, not the politicians endlessly praising our health system while doing their utmost to make it horrible. Click here to read the rest.
Practically everything about government budgets makes me want to scream, from reckless spending to vacuous rhetoric. Take Thursday’s federal “Economic Action Plan 2012”… please. First, it was awful. Then almost everybody said exactly what you’d expect if they’d written their press release, column, or news story before the thing even appeared.