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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Expect a Ferris wheel on Toronto Island
A Ferris wheel ala London’s famed wheel is likely in the cards for Toronto Island. Unless he has changed his mind since brother Rob was Toronto’s mayor, new Ontario Premier Doug Ford would have a Ferris wheel erected on the ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »500% tax hike threatens historic Yonge Street
Toronto City Hall is helping both foreign and domestic developers denude Historic Yonge Street of its landmark merchants south of Bloor Street, replacing them with monster condos and cookie-cutter chain stores. It’s a disgrace.yonge tax grab Councillor Krystin Wong-Tam backs ...
Read More »Omar Khadr deserves financial recompense
There really isn’t any reason to keep blathering on about the cash Canada paid to Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was tortured by Americans in their illegal off-shore prison in Cuba with the open approval of his Canadian ...
Read More »The anti-Assad gas caper
It was a clearly trumped-up (no relation, no pun) sarin scam to blame Syria’s Bashar Assad government for the alleged gas attack against Syrian civilians. There is a group of terrorists (known as “White helmets”) who are subject to U.S. ...
Read More »Is the CETA free-trade deal treasonous?
I can’t help wondering whether it’s treason for a government to support a fascist so-called “free-trade” deal like NAFTA and CETA. I use the term “fascist” advisedly. As WWII Italian dictator Benito Mussolini defined the term, fascism is a merger ...
Read More »Ontario is hard done by provincial politicians
Frank Touby — It’s not a good time for women in top-level politics. At least not in the U.S. and definitely not in Ontario. But let’s look mainly at the government with the most immediate influence over our lives. That ...
Read More »Tory style plagues us since the bad days of Mike Harris
Frank Touby– Toronto is plagued by Tories. First there were the Mike Harris Tories who broke our world-class city apart by forcing us to include suburban cities as part of Toronto. Our smoothly functioning CityHome municipal housing program was demolished ...
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