For what heinous sin am I condemned to watch Libby Davies on TV telling the House of Commons what I should eat? Would you tolerate someone spilling their fourth martini while ordering you to sober up? Well, her campaigning for legally mandated limits on salt in food is no different. Click here to read the rest.
What's wrong with Americans? No, not their political choices, domestic arsenals or supersized appetites. I mean literally. Why do nearly nine million American workers collect federal disability insurance, one for every 13 with full-time jobs? Click here to read the rest.
The people reaching for the reins now slipping from Dalton McGuinty’s hands trot out the usual gooblahoy about renewal and new visions and hard-working families and the middle class. But at the hard core of governing is money: Raising it in taxes, spending it on programs. And here Ontario has a real problem to which those who would be premier seem strangely oblivious. Click here to read the rest.
In announcing his semi-resignation on Monday Dalton McGuinty provided a revealing glimpse into his mind. Sounds ghastly? Please look anyway, because ideas matter. Click here to read the rest.
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.