canada issues

An interesting post on Cato's site points to some interesting trends with America's Northern neighbor that look like something from Ronald Reagan's wet dream: Some contrast with the USA, even in Reagan's peak years. Not only that, Canada shames the US with it's liberal immigration and trade...

Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria has an interesting opinion piece on Canada's position in the current economic crisis: For most of the last 12 years, Canada has had a liberal minded government that kept the banking regulations in place and ran up budget surpluses instead of deficits. Only recently...

In the ongoing thread about the Parliamentary shenanigans in the Canadian federal government, the issue of Quebec separation has come up once again. A frequent topic of political discourse in Canada, although it has been quiet as of late and may remain so after Charest got a majority government...

Today Prime Minister Harper formally apologized for the treatment of aboriginal Canadians in Canada’s notorious Residential Schools. For over one hundred years the purpose of the schools was to suppress aboriginal culture and language and to instil Christianity in native children. They did this...

LINK The Ontario Government has decided to introduce legistlation this spring to ban smoking in a car if children under the age of 16 are present. The offence will carry a fine, likely of up to $200. The province of Nova Scotia already has such a ban. Sounds like a good idea to me. And...

Alberta Teachers are conspiring with homosexuals to undermine family values says Craig Chandler, a Calgary-based “family values” activist. From kindergarten class on, our children, your grandchildren are being strategically targeted, psychologically abused and brainwashed by homosexual and...

It makes no sense to me. It is not in their best interest. Never mind that it is dumb for anyone getting the short end of the redistribution stick, for them it is particularly dumb because there is 1 chance in a 100,000,000,000 that it will have an actual impact. Canada should be spewing as...

Cutbacks crippling Armed Forces, Martin told Globe and Mail Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003