Category Archive: Editorials

Toronto Blue Jays fans outraged at excessively high ticket re-sale prices

October 2025 Regarding the high prices for Blue Jays tickets on the resale market, the only way the price insanity is going to end is if people stop buying them, plain and simple. In reality, all products and services are only worth what people are willing to pay for them. If people refuse to pay …

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It appears Peace Through Strength is a better tactic than appeasement – Trump gets peace in Gaza

October 2025 On tonight’s menu is a delightful dinner featuring crow as the main course, with humble pie for desert. What do you do when, after chanting “Free, Free Palestine/Gaza” for the past 2 years in the streets of Canada and America, you here the voices of the Gazans chanting President Donald Trump’s name in …

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The cold, hard truth about the $10 a day daycare

October 2025 The cold, hard truth is that there is no such thing as $10 a day daycare. It simply doesn’t exist. Daycare costs what it costs the provider, plus a profit margin, something that is necessary for the continued operation of any business, including a daycare. The only way that providers can charge parents …

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There can be no Reconciliation, without Truth – My reflections on the 5th annual Truth & Reconciliation Day

September 2025 An absence of balance. That’s what I see with much of the talk regarding the Indian Residential Schools. A recent column written by Sean Carleton, associate professor in the Departments of History and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba, and Benjamin Kucher, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University …

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Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile – Ford announces cancellation of photo radar

September 2025 There’s an old proverb: “Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.” Premier Doug Ford has announced his government will ban photo radar on municipal roads by next month. This is a reversal of his government’s 2019 legislation permitting their use, citing an “out of control” program. It seems that most, if …

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Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Mean Freedom From Consequences

September 2025 Wow, what a difference a week can make. I started writing this column when the future of of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, was in doubt. Now, I have to re-write sections of this column as the American Broadcasting Network (ABC) and its owner, the Walt Disney Company, have …

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Don’t get too smug yet Liberals

Published in the Hamilton Spectator, 19 September 2025 Re: Editorial Cartoon, Carney and Poilievre have competing projects underway, Sept. 13 I always enjoy editorial cartoons, even ones that mock politicians and parties that I support. However, Graeme MacKay shouldn’t get too smug just yet. The list of nation-building projects that Prime Minister Mark Carney recently announced, …

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Municipal speed cameras are a cash grab

September 2025 Re: “Lawlessness going unchecked in Canada’s biggest city” (Jerry Agar, Toronto Sun, 9 September): I usually agree with Jerry Agar, but on this one I disagree with his assertion that the infamous Parkside Drive camera, which was cut down for the 7th time in 10 months recently, or any speed camera, isn’t a …

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Will the political assassination of Charlie Kirk be the turning point for the current toxic political climate

Published in the Toronto Sun, 14 September 2025 There are some truly sickening people out there, practically dancing in the streets in the wake of the senseless assassination of American conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. So tell me, you soulless ghouls, how should Erika Kirk, Kirk’s widow, explain to her children why …

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York Regional Police Chief faces criticism for comments regarding victim of home invasion murder

September 2025 In the wake of the senseless murder of Abdul Aleem Farooqi, who died protecting his family from a violent home invasion, York Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween is being heavily criticized for his comments that essentially amount to a surrender to the thugs terrorizing our cities. While I certainly understand that Chief MacSween …

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