Ontario’s Tory Premier Kathleen Wynne (in Liberal disguise), has created an immigration opportunity for Indian high-tech workers to replace those local employees scarfed away from Canadian companies by foreigner Cisco Systems to whom she awards $190 million of your dollars. ...
Read More »Mandela was my inspiration during my teen years
It seems that every generation has a person it looks up to who inspires and who gives hope. Unequivocally, for people of my generation, that person is Nelson Mandela. As a young child, I knew the name Nelson Mandela well ...
Read More »Did Pam McConnell lie saying Mayor Rob Ford hurt her?
Frank Touby— Is it fair or accurate to call Councillor Pam McConnell a liar or a faker because she says she feared for her life when raging bull Mayor Rob Ford charged intoher last month during a city council meeting? ...
Read More »A 3-stop subway is like buying a pig in a poke
If money is the only big problem we have to worry about, then 2014 will be a terrific year for public transit in Toronto. We now have solid recommendations by the Transit Investment Strategy Advisory Panel about how Premier Kathleen ...
Read More »Kids need local schools, but TDSB sells them off
When my parents decided to purchase a house many decades ago, one of the deciding factors for moving into a community was the proximity of the schools in the area. And it was not only my family who took the ...
Read More »Our blunder of electing Ford will keep harming us
City council has censured Mayor Rob Ford by stripping him of many of his powers and staff. It was a move that tried to signify to the world that council finds Ford’s unlawful, lewd and erratic behaviour both disgusting and ...
Read More »Harperites seem set on creating a police state in Canada
This absolutely isn’t about Rob Ford. It’s very tempting to go off onto a rant about how our pre-Ford mayor, a Harvard-educated dingbat, makes the current almost former occupant of that office appear prescient. Actually the likely truth is that ...
Read More »Most of the ‘gravy’ Ford found was on his own shirt
After last month’s unending and chaotic unfolding of the story of our discredited Mayor Rob Ford, how is it that some Toronto residents can still contemplate voting for him again October 27 next year? The reasons are many and complex. ...
Read More »Harper’s China investment deal will make slaves of Canadians—Elizabeth May
Elizabeth May — It has been more than a year since the Harper government cabinet was in a legal position to ratify the Canada-China investment treaty. Thank goodness that step has not yet been taken. It is the largest threat ...
Read More »The spoiled brat we foolishly elected Mayor of Toronto
Frank Touby — You’ve seen the type. A spoiled brat, youngest son of a rich family who was granted enviable freedoms and privileges by busy or lazy parents who’ve let him go his own way and supported him with money ...
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