Archive for June, 2009

Smoking Is Cool Again

Well no, I supose that’s a lie, but US President Barrack Obama was pretty cool in his answer regarding his own habbits in light of a new nanny-state law south of the border.  Considering Canadian politicians fall over themselves trying to be seen in the same room as the Commander-In-Chief, I wonder if anyone north [...]

June 23, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  Comments Closed

Busted! Giant Red Ball Funded by Taxpayers

Days ago, Luminato “artists” were paid big bucks – courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer – to inflate a giant red ball in Toronto.  Check out this video, where government funded hippies get ‘busted’.

*From taxpayerblog.com

June 19, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  Comments Closed

A Deep Forest of Bailouts

Two for you, one for me, and if by chance we don’t agree, bailouts for everyone and more taxes and debt for me.
We naysayers who warned long ago that bailouts for one corporate welfare bum would inevitably lead to bailouts for every Tom, Dick, Harry… Moe, Curly and Larie, are right, again.  It was therefore [...]

June 17, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  Comments Closed

Liberal Senators Attempt to Buy “Voter” Tracking Software With Taxpayers’ Dollars

A recent letter from Liberal Senate Caucus (LSC) representative Grant Mitchell to the Board of Internal Economy revels that the LSC has been attempting to buy Voter Activation Network (VAN) software at the expense of the Canadian taxpayer to the tune of $60,000.  This software – allegedly used by the Liberal Party of Canada, several [...]

June 16, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Blog Content  6 Comments

Statist Day-Care in Ontario

Details are still vague at this time, but today the Government of Ontario government announced its plans to push forward with a government run day-care system.  While this sort of scheme has been rejected in two consecutive federal elections and is a massive failure of a program in Quebec, that’s not stopping McGuinty and crew.
So [...]

June 15, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  4 Comments

The Shout Heard Round the World

Doubtless, many have seen this YouTube video by now, but I am continually inspired by the power of Daniel Hannan’s words as he drags Gordon Brown across the carpet.  His “Devalued Prime Minister of a Devalued Government” speech, sometimes referred to as the “Shout Heard Round the World” is hailed by many as the makings [...]

June 15, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  One Comment

Representations of Reform: A Paper on a New Party’s Siege of Ottawa

The following essay is an academic paper produced in the spring of 2008.

June 13, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  One Comment

Published in Report Magazine ~ Talkin’ Bout My Generation: Why the Coming Demographic Collapse Will Hurt Taxpayers Coming of Age

The following article appears in the June 2009 issue of Report Magazine.
“People try to put us d-down.”  That opening line from The Who’s 1965 hit ‘My Generation’ sums up, in reverse, the situation in which young and middle-aged taxpayers will soon find themselves.  In fact, it is a lack of people paying taxes that will [...]

June 10, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Published  4 Comments

Daniel Hannan: The BNP is a Far-Left Party / CBC: BNP is a Far-Right Party

The CBC is reporting that the BNP – which made a breakthrough in yesterdays’s EU elections – is a “far-right party”.  So: nationalizing industries, running factories through ‘workers councils’, protectionism and staunch resistence to privatization is “far right”?  What then is the ‘centre-right’ that opposes bailouts, supports private ownership of industry and promotes free trade?

For [...]

June 9, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  5 Comments

I Write the Platform: Where the PCPO Candidates Stand on Policy

Well, no I don’t write the platform, but here is a brief on where the leadership candidates for the Ontario Conservatives stand as per their responses to a survey from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.  Please note that Christine Elliot did not return a completed survey, but responded via a letter highlighting various policy proposals.  In [...]

June 9, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  2 Comments