November 2017 Re: Rob Ford stadium nixed (Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto Sun, 5 October 2017): Toronto City Council should be ashamed of themselves for refusing to approve the re-naming of Centennial Stadium after the late Mayor Rob Ford. This refusal is particularly galling given that council voted 33-2 to approve the naming of something in memory …
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October 2017 Governments are always saying we need to “invest” in “green” technologies; we need to encourage “green” innovation. We’ve come a long way in cleaning up our environment in the past without carbon taxes to encourage this innovation. Why do we need them now? Back in the 1980s, acid-rain was a great threat and …
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October 2017 “We don’t think there should be a carbon-based energy industry by the middle of this century. The real alternative is not an alternative route. It’s an alternative economy.” Gerald Butts, principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in May 2012 when asked about the proposed route for the Northern Gateway pipeline. On 5 …
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Published in the Toronto Sun 1 October 2017 Re: “Things could be worse,” (Omar Khan, Toronto Sun, September 25): Yes Mr. Khan, facts do matter and I’m glad that you pointed out that Ontario is the most indebted sub-sovereign jurisdiction. That fact does matter, even if Ontario’s fiscal and economic situation could be worse. However, …
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September 2017 Although I’m a Conservative supporter and a supporter of Patrick Brown since he was a Member of Parliament, I’m not completely convinced that he can defeat Kathleen Wynne’s government in next year’s election. After 14 years of lies, increased taxes, scandals, criminal charges, debt that’s double what it was in 2003, the dumpster-fire …
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September 2016 Re: Did boozy cop get off easy? (Michele Mandel, Toronto Sun, 14 September 2014); I had two reactions when I read this article. The first was what is causing so many cops to drink, especially when we see first-hand the carnage that results (collisions, domestics, etc)? The second was this could have been me …
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Published in the Barrie Examiner, 27 September 2017 Re: “Opposition without solid solution disappointing (Peter Silveira, Barre Examiner, Sept 14): I don’t think anyone disagrees with raising the minimum wage, especially at the rate of inflation. Obviously employers can’t pay their workers in 2017 the same wage they were paid in 1987. The major problem is …
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September 2017 The death of Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington on 20 July 2017 hit me in ways that I never thought it would. I had never really been a fan of Linkin Park or Chester, including his tenure with Stone Temple Pilots, although I’ve been watching his videos on You Tube since then. Before …
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September 2017 So Premier Kathleen Wynne is threatening to sue Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown for libel after he inadvertently said she is on “trial” relating to the corruption charges currently being heard against Liberal staffers in Sudbury, something he immediately corrected to say that she was only testifying as a Crown witness. Really Premier? Is …
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September 2017 The whole Russia-Trump collusion conspiracy has been a big nothing burger, so much so that even the left is losing interest in it. The not-so-veiled hopes that that the testimony of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner before congress would be the beginning of Trump’s Watergate have vanished quicker than Trump can tweet “Fake news.” …
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