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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Canadian Wheat Board
Small Dead Animals: Canadian Wheat Board “In September 2009, Hudye Farms filed a mandatory CWB declaration with a major grain company that all wheat Hudye Farms intended to deliver in the 2009-10 crop year would be of the CWRS class. … Continue reading
Emergency Room Abuse
CBC: Canadians overuse ER after hours: survey “Canadians use emergency rooms more than people from 10 other countries, mainly because they can’t get access to their regular medical care during weekends and evenings, a new survey says.” Issues like this … Continue reading
Posted in Free Markets, Government Intervention, Personal Responsibility
Tagged health care
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Milk Cartels
Globe and Mail: Dairy desperado goes west on raw-milk mission “There are also set allotments, or quotas, of how many dairy cows provinces can have. Effectively a licence, they go for upwards of $30,000 per cow in Western Canada.” Most people … Continue reading
Posted in Free Markets, Government Intervention, Liberty & Freedom, Nanny State, Personal Responsibility
Tagged milk
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Building Inspections
Globe & Mail: ‘All I wanted to do is build a house’ When I first saw this article I was it was going to end badly but I was glad to see that common sense prevailed. “In the past two … Continue reading
Posted in Government Intervention, Liberty & Freedom, Nanny State, Private Property
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Public Sector Unions
Toronto Sun: Feds have $65B pension funding shortfall: C.D. Howe “Most federal employees in this country have what’s known as defined-benefit pensions, the most stable of all benefit plans since contributions are fixed. And higher-income public servants often qualify for … Continue reading
Canadian Housing Bubble, CHMC & You
This might be a bit off topic for this site but it is a pet project of mine. Many people believe that Canada dodged a bullet with the collapse of the US housing market. The common theme is that ‘it … Continue reading
125th Anniversary of CPR Golden Spike
Globe and Mail: 125 years after the CPR’s last spike was hammered, what shall our new dream be? I am guessing that many people assume that the Government built the railroad across Canada that paved (should that be railed) the way … Continue reading
Wow….
National Post: Are Canadian politics hot enough to brew a Tea Party? Wow…. all I can say is wow! I gave the interview on Thursday afternoon and wasn’t even sure it would see the light of day. I left town … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Make high-speed Internet ‘basic service,’ CRTC urged
The Globe & Mail: Make high-speed Internet ‘basic service,’ CRTC urged “The Montreal MP (Liberal MP Marc Garneau ) stressed that the regulator should make high-speed Internet part of its mandate and suggested a goal of delivering download speeds of 1.5 megabits … Continue reading
Posted in Free Markets, Government Intervention, Small Government, Uncategorized
Tagged crtc, internet
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Debt by a million giant novelty cheques.
I read this story today and it had me thinking: CTV News: Canada’s oilpatch subsidies said to total $2.8B. The gist was that we should eliminate these subsidies to which I agree (even though I work in the oil patch). $2.8B … Continue reading
Posted in Small Government
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