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Harper was a dedicated slash-and-burn cost cutter, and in true Conservative form saw social and environmental programs as luxuries to be cut from the menu.

Jean Charest will have to clear the same hurdles that tripped up Erin O'Toole, the social conservative faction within the CPC. The party has to move closer to center to attract enough voters to win, and there is open resistance from within that would see the party move further to the right, the...

With the criticism the implementation of the EA at this point the Liberals really need to be sure to cancel it as soon as possible. But...something that will have a huge bearing on that is where the protests go from here. If the civil and economic disruption continue to the degree they reached...

Everybody is crying for Trudeau to "do something" but suggestions as to exactly what he should do are few and far between. Both the NDP and the CPC are making similar demands, and both are light on details. I'm of the mind that the protesters are not going to go away willingly, and that no...

It would be interesting to see employment stats over the past decade in terms of just how many people were working. The strategy among producers since the price crash in 2014/15 has been to improve efficiencies to deliver higher output with fewer workers, that and continued downward pressure on...

On the bright side, the federal conservatives have finally defeated a national party leader.

That's the irony of it. Trudeau and the Feds have no jurisdiction when it comes to domestic pandemic restrictions and and mandates, that's all under provincial control. And eight of the ten southern provinces are governed by conservatives. When are those darn conservatives going to give us...

So they're expendable ? Heartless bastard.

Excellent and thought-provoking commentary on the dark road that partisan squabbling is taking us down. Both of our major parties are more concerned with gaining or hanging on to power than actually running the country in a manner that benefits all Canadians. Thanks for posting that Ron.

That's my take on it too. It's isolated brands, not widespread general shortages. Looks more like a disruption at the manufacturing end and not a supply chain issue.

That might be wishful thinking. If the CPC took on the PPC as partners it would drive a lot of the moderates out. Not to mention the infighting we're seeing today would just get worse.

When a person has diabetes that has been managed well for years and dies of Covid, what killed him ?

I've been watching the dwindling ranks of the "Freedom Convoy" since it bacame a magnet for far right extremeists. What's the count of trucks that actually made it to Parliament Hill ?

Not everybody who gets the virus dies, but some do. A bigger question is how many people did the virus pass through before it resulted in a fatality. Some people can't grasp the logic behind "stop the spread".

Wealth distribution has grown increasingly more slanted to the high earners for forty or fifty years now, the higher the income, the higher the increase in share of the wealth. The top one percent saw their share increase by 53% since 1982, the bottom 50% saw their share decrease by 28% during...

It's out of control. Thirty or forty million dollars a years is obscene. If you look at money as a finite resource why should it be anywhere near acceptable that the top one percent of controls 25% of the country's wealth while the bottom 40% shares 1% ?

Unless you're one of the lucky few. I pulled these numbers from a report on CEO and top executive wages issued by an economic thinktank in the US, The Economic Policy Institute: EPI Report on CEO Compensation

Well he did make sure his whole family came out of it rich, and he managed to keep the courts off his ass for a while.

I got hooked on CBC Radio decades back when it was the only choice where I lived. You were lucky if the broadcast was in English and not Inuktitut. That was back in the golden years of Peter Gzowski and Vicki Gabereau. It's always been the music and "magazine" shows that have had my attention...