Frank Touby

Frank Touby’s editorials, columns, articles, short stories

Should Canada nationalize pharmaceutical industry?

Frank Touby – Recently the media have been following the outrageous case of a hedge-fund hyena who bought rights to a cheap-to-make off-patent drug that deals with a deadly disease from which relatively few people suffer. Hedge funds, as you ...

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Why not sell all public assets and let business rule?

Frank Touby – Is privatization of public assets the best way to hold down taxes and still provide the public with needed government services? Let’s see how this works. From the conservative, far-right side of the question there’s this position: ...

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Link Byfield & Alberta Report helped change my life

Frank Touby — I was shocked to read of Link (Eric Linkord) Byfield’s recent death by cancer. He was Editor-in-Chief of Alberta Report newsmagazine when I spent a summer working there in 1991 in order to decide whether to move to ...

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Mainstream media toe the government line even in Canada

Frank Touby — We’ve all heard the complaints about the “mainstream media” in the U.S. twisting their reportage to reflect the government’s positions on various events. I’ve always taken it for granted that Toronto’s mainstream media doesn’t do that. Certainly ...

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Beware the reign of oligarchs over our Downtown

Frank Touby – It was like a nut fell off a tree and landed on my soft spot. Or an airliner high above inadvertently emptied one of its on-board potties and a bit of the frozen crap whacked me on the ...

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John Tory is the perfect fit for this highly visible job

Frank Touby — John Tory is a magnificent thinker and communicator in the right forum. He has found that métier at CFRB, the AM talk-radio station at 1010 on the dial whose call letters stand for Canada’s First Rogers Broadcast. ...

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A talk about St. Lawrence Neighbourhood, its past, present, future

Frank Touby — In 2014 I was asked to deliver a talk to the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Supper Club which is held regularly at the HotHouse Café. Joining me at the podium were HotHouse owner and community booster Andrew Laffey ...

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It was Mike Harris who beat the pants off Tim Hudak

Scandals and sellouts aside, voters went for hopeful promises of lesser devils than the ones they have experienced at the hands of Dalton McGuinty. The voter demolition of both Andrea Horwath’s NDP and Tim Hudak’s Tory regimes at the polls ...

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