Canada’s big-city mayors want bigger share of growing tax pie (http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=e3bdaca7-546f-4dbe-aa77-0b94a826d312&k=58941&p=1) www.canada.com, Jun 1 ’06 The mayors, who are meeting in Montreal, called the reliance on property taxes and user fees antiquated. Current funding needs to be supplemented by tapping … Continue reading →
Commitment to Afghanistan helping Canada: RCMP www.paktribune.com, May 31 ’06 The head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is connecting the dots between Canada’s role in Afghanistan and domestic security in Canada. Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli told a Senate committee … Continue reading →
Update as of June 1, 2015: I totally disagree with my final statement now. Maybe it was a fantasy in a sense that we were falsely sold, but people paid for it all those years and it worked very well, … Continue reading →
Toronto butting out at midnight (http://www.680news.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20060530_161356_3304) www.680news.com, May 30 ’06 . . . all indoor-smoking in public places such as restaurants, casinos, bars and bingo halls. . . Anti-tobacco activist Michael Perley expects some businesses will resist. “I think there … Continue reading →
Amnesty for tax cheats a success: Report (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1147005128157&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_World&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pagepath=News/World) www.thestar.com, May 7 ’06 A federal amnesty program for tax cheats is successfully flushing out mostly rich Canadians who want to settle up Tax “cheats” is a funny term to use, since … Continue reading →
Canada treads dangerous line over poppy eradication in southern Afghanistan www.canada.com, April 23 ’06 But uprooting the plant from which opium and heroin is derived is not the kind of image the military wants to cultivate here as it tries … Continue reading →
What About Darfur? The case against intervention Justin Raimondo, www.antiwar.com, May 1 ’06 From a realistic point of view, there is nothing U.S. military intervention can accomplish in Sudan except to make things far worse. (Original Post)
Continue reading →The Individual or the State? Butler Shaffer, www.lewrockwell.com, May 1 ’06 Drawn from the thinking of such men as John Locke, John Stuart Mill, and other advocates of individually-centered political philosophy, the social contract theory is premised upon each person … Continue reading →
Canada joins growing battle on China parts import policy (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060414.RCHINA14/TPStory/Business) www.theglobeandmail.com Ottawa said China put in place measures last year that cause tariffs on parts imported for assembly of complete vehicles to be higher than the tariff that applies to … Continue reading →
Canada Mad-Cow Results Expected Sunday www.tmcnet.com, April 14 ’06 Test results of Canada’s latest mad-cow case are expected by Sunday, said a Canadian Food Inspection Agency, or CFIA, representative. As a Canadian, I would like to hear some reassurances from … Continue reading →