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A rap song inspired by Rob Ford’s crack cocaine denial
Originally posted on canada.com:Rob Ford must be part of the zeitgeist. After all, someone has recorded a rap track about him. Corey Charron, a 21-year-old from Ottawa who recently won a $5,000...
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Rob Ford’s Got 99 Problems
Poor Rob Ford, he’s got more problems than Jay-Z (without the upside of being married to Beyoncé). And they keep piling on. Take yesterday’s news. On Monday, Ford’s two press secretaries quit,...
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If the NDP Wants to Start a Conversation About Taxes, Here’s Where they...
It’s been a slow month, so I’ve been following the low profile policy bun-fight that’s broken out in NDP ranks in reaction to Thomas Mulclair’s commitment that, if elected, the NDP won’t raise taxes...
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Coporate Income Tax, Dutch Disease, and Left-Wing Economic Incoherence
I was thinking some more about NDP tax policy the other night and I was struck by the dichotomy between left-wing thinking on tax and monetary policy and their implications for corporations. The NDP...
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It’s Groundhog Day in Quebec
Remember that movie “Groundhog Day“? An arrogant weatherman, played by Bill Murray finds himself living through groundhog day over and over, until he finally mends his ways? I kind of feel like that...
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Pauline Marois talks Bombings – Well, Separatists Know a Thing Or Two About That
I can’t get enough of the silliness behind Quebec’s proposed Secular Charter. Pauline Marois, Quebec’s Premier, is quoted in today’s Le Devoir defending her proposal to impose secularism on civil...
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Religion and Bigotry – Opponents of Trinity Western Law School Say More About...
There a minor kerfuffle in the legal community this week over news that Trinity Western University (TWU), a private Christian university based in BC, had cleared the initial hurdles to potentially...
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Trinity Western University and Duck Dynasty – Why can’t we get along?
Brandon Ambrosino over at Time has a nice little piece on the Duck Dynasty/Homophobia fiasco that, I think, offers a lot of insight on the recent spat in Canada around the proposed Trinity Western...
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Why are Egypt’s Crimes Stephen Harper’s Fault?
This morning we learned that an Egyptian court – a kangaroo court, if ever there was one – after what can only be characterized as a farce of a trial, had convicted Mohammed Fahmy, an...
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No, damnit, Non-Residents Canadians shouldn’t get to vote in Canadian Elections
I read this piece in the Globe by Semra Sevi this morning making the case for why Canadian citizens who reside outside of Canada for more than 5-years should be entitled to vote in Federal elections....
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This is Why No One Takes the Toronto Star and the Canadian Center for Policy...
I know I shouldn’t read the Star. Especially not when it’s reporting on the latest report from the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives (the “CCPA”). Not because I don’t agree with them (it’s no...
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Good Lord, It’s depressing to read the Star these days – more pathetic...
A few weeks ago I had a rant about an utterly attrocious story in the Toronto Star reporting wholly uncritically upon a Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives study which purported to show (but, in...
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