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It's worth a lot. In Canada we have a lot of politicians who see stirring the emotional pot as their path to office, and precious few willing to identify and work to correct issues that are important to a lot of voters. Two big examples are environmental responisibilty and inequality both...

What is right/center/left depends on where you are holding the dumb end of the tape. I still look at the Liberals as center, and the Conservatives and NDP as right and left respectively.

But that's a big part of their base, and they're really easy to fool. Just give them something to get mad at and they'll do exactly whatever you want.

You're right that I would likely never vote Conservative, but that doens't mean I can't see what their problems are. The CPC is a mish-mash of different political ideologies trying to show a united face to voters, and the voters they need to win haven't swallowed their shtick for the last two...

And those ideological differences remain to this day, and the problem remains that none of the internal factions within the CPC have the strength to mount a challenge to Trudeau on their own. Look at the front runners for CPC leadership right now, you've got Charest going the moderate route...

Nope. He's buying votes because his reputation is in the toilet.

I got that. I'm saying screw you Chrystia, I'm not a charity but I'll be your bank if you can pay.

Political thin ice there. I draw on my savings for my retirement income. Now, I might be willing to lend them some if the interest rate is attractive enough.

Reality kicked in in the form of Reaganomics, where the bottom line became the prime focus and employees became just another ledger entry under "expenses". Unionization rates started dropping at the same time, union labour was "just too damned expensive". Little notice was given to the effect...

There is no official definition. Depending on who you are talking to it is a group that belongs neither to the top 20 to 25 percent of income earners nor the bottom 20 to 25 percent. In Canada these days that puts you in the middle class if you earn roughly between $45K and $100K per year...

Good point, add to that that burning gasoline is seen by many as an environmental bad guy. My question is still the same though, what has changed in Canada that justifies price increases of the magnitude we are seeing now. I'm stuck on corporate greed and opportunism, looking for a convincing...

This is not secret information, all you need is google and an open mind.

I'm talking about general changes over the last fifty years. When I grew up it was normal that one income could support the house payment, the car payment,and take a holiday in the summer or maybe put a kid through college. Today the norm is two incomes to make ends meet. I also look at...

I don't know much about fertilizer, would ammonia price alone account for the price increases across the board ?

In your opinion, are the resulting costs to the end user justified ? Have the costs of getting that product to the farmer risen as much as the prices being charged ?

That's the feeling I can't shake. This is all about a few people lining their own pockets at the expense of everyone else.

Petros, you're in tight with the agricultural sector, I have a farmer acquaintance online who posted some info regarding price increases in fertilizer products in the last year, prices for some domestic products as much as doubling. Can you offer any insight there?

Can you find something with Canadian relevance? My question remains, what has changed in Canada in the last short while to justify these price increases ?

I hear that. Especially when it becomes obvious that those shrieking have a limited knowledge of just what they are demanding. I live at the southern tip of a ninety mile long lake in a narrow valley that has a string of towns large and small from end to end, a length that extends well beyond...

I get this, a little protectionism going on on both sides of the border, but aren't these regs more geared towards bulk trade at the import/export level, they don't appear to apply at the retail level or we would be seeing similar price increases on both sides of the border. Biden is promising...