“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it.” – George Santayana (1863 – 1952) I was watching the “At Issue Panel” on CBC’s “the National”. Bruce Anderson, Peter Mansbridge, Andrew Coyne and Chantal Hébert were talking about our new Parliament. The panel started off well. They were talking about a variety of […]
Month: September 2011
“The Canadian government is prepared to introduce legislation to end a strike at Air Canada because of the serious effect it can have on the economy, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Tuesday. Labour Minister Lisa Raitt plans to give notice Tuesday night of back-to-work legislation, Mr. Flaherty said. This does not mean the strike will […]
“A study from the University of Madrid should give Ontario voters even more pause for thought. Spain experienced a state-sponsored solar bubble that was, in the words of the authors, “terribly economically counterproductive.” Spain was at the forefront of supporting renewable energy with billions of taxpayers’ dollars but the study found that for every green […]
Over the last couple of years, one could turn on CBC, CBC Radio and TV Ontario to hear the voices of David Bercuson, Janice Stein, Eric Margolis, Michael Byers, Tarek Fatah, Lewis Mackenzie and Brian Stewart. Each would talk intelligently about Canada’s military, economic and political interests in many parts of the world. For the […]
“The decision not to do a wireless launch is probably the correct one, in our view,” Mr. Allen wrote in a research note. “If they could have secured a partnership with Rogers, then we think the economics might have been sensible. But having watched Videotron and other new entrants over the last year, the cap-ex […]
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