In last month’s Speech from the Throne it reiterated the often overstated point that the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney is going to “identify and catalyze projects of national significance.” Those projects, meant to […]
What is going on in Ontario’s education system? A lot, and anyone with kids in elementary or secondary schools in Ontario should be concerned about them. There is a clash that is slowly developing between […]
How many times have you heard or read this: Ontario has a housing crisis; or Canada has a housing crisis; or housing costs are through the roof? Many times. Unless you’ve been living under a […]
Canada’s postal service is teetering on oblivion. Losing hundreds of millions per year, Canada Post – if unchanged – will go the way of Hudson’s Bay. The Crown corporation responsible for mail delivery is at […]
In the trailing days of the 2025 Federal Election – a blast from the past appeared on the pages of the Globe and Mail – Preston Manning. Manning warned that a Liberal government returning to […]
The 2025 Federal Election was one of the most interesting elections in the last 40 years. There were many upsets, and the results were not quite what was predicted – yet the results are exactly […]
When did science become the enemy? I think I missed the memo here that said that anything scientific must be bad. It certainly was not the case when I was growing up. Science was (and […]
It is a day to go until election day and I’d thought I’d share a few thoughts about this 2025 Federal Election. This election has been interesting and not what I expected three months ago. […]
The 2025 Federal Election is nearly here, and it has been an interesting campaign to watch on a national and local level. A 36-day campaign period is short by most election standards in Canada, but […]
Highway 138 is a death trap. The road, which connects the City of Cornwall to Highway 417 north of Moose Creek, is a 35 kilometre corridor of carnage. Late last month, another person died driving […]
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