Opinion

Touby: At Christmas we prayed for cool weather

By Frank Touby – Have a cool yule and a frantic first. That’s from a greeting card I received in 1954 from a classmate at Gesu Catholic School in downtown Miami. I wrote a column in the mimeographed school newsletter ...

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Justin doubles down on Putin and disgraces himself

To get a clearer picture of the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, it’s important to set aside the lame-stream media pile-on against Russia and look at the details. The monopoly major media in the U.S. are owned by six mega-corporations (aka ...

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Ford is right on turning down cap-and-trade

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is doing taxpayers a great service by ending the greedy cap-and-trade scam (C&T) invented by bankers and, naturally, supported by the Kathleen Wynne Liberals who never saw a dollar they wouldn’t snatch away from you. The ...

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Economist Thomas Greco on wealth and power

How has extreme centralization of power and concentration of wealth come about? What are the pillars upon which the global power structure rests? How can power be decentralized and dispersed more broadly to enable people to live in peace and ...

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Trudeau costs us for his energy-sector failings

Justin Trudeau is forcing Canadians to pay for his failure to support the men and women of Canada’s energy sector. Kinder Morgan is walking away from a major energy project here in Canada. The company never asked for a dollar ...

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Unfair electronic vehicle rules for condos?

On April 23, the Government of Ontario announced new requirements supporting Electronic Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS) in Condominiums across Ontario. The new rules are set to come into effect May 1. With approximately 8.5 million road motor Ontario vehicle registrations ...

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Rein in killer trucks on Ontario highways

By Frank Touby They are called tractor trailers and they are the deadliest vehicles on our roads, responsible for a fifth of all road vehicle wrecks. Yet Ontario and other provinces fail to properly regulate and rein in these highway ...

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‘PM Moonbeam’ Trudeau declares war on the car

Gas prices keep going up, just like the cost of everything else. And soon, there’s another shock coming. Justin Trudeau is imposing a national carbon tax on Canadians. According to his government’s own research, his carbon tax will add 11 ...

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Yes, the Sunshine List still matters

Once a year the Ontario government releases the names and salaries of government employees earning a taxpayer-funded salary of over $100,000. And like clockwork, critics complain that the $100,000 threshold for this “Sunshine List” is inappropriate. The main arguments are ...

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It’s time to expropriate Big Pharma

Big Pharma shouldn’t exist. Pharmaceuticals are a health necessity that mustn’t be continued as business monopolies that are distorted, perverted and corrupted by the profit lusts of transnational corporations that operate outside of—and frequently in opposition to—the public interest. Drug ...

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