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Nov. 14 Good for David Olive for calling for a business overhaul in Canada. The need to deal with oligopolies is long overdue, as is the need to reduce corporate welfare handouts and charge a fair tax to corporations.
But there is no need to wait for Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can introduce appropriate changes. Maybe it will improve the Liberal standing with Canadians. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s spokesperson Sebastian Skamski replied to Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow’s request for immediate housing funding by stating “Incompetent and greedy NDP Mayor Olivia Chow is the model example of the failure of the Liberals’ housing photo op fund.
” His response is obviously off-the-charts meaningless and a typical rude misdirection. Why do Poilievre and his people need to treat their fellow Canadians with contempt every minute of every day of the week? , Nov. 8 There are more than 100 very rich billionaires in Canada .
It would be simple for them to build enough shelters, buy enough food for the food banks, and lower rents so their tenants can stay in place. But they won’t because there is no gain for them. The 10 richest Canadians are worth $261 billion and they saw an increase of 20 per cent over the last four years.
They need to be taxed at a higher rate. Our system has created desperate people, and desperate people do desperate things. Governments need to step up to the plate and get the job done humanely.
, Nov. 14 There is a world of difference between civil disobedience and an act of vandalism in a context of antisemitism. In civil disobedience, it is those committing the disobedience who are inconvenienced, usually because of arrest.
Postering and throwing paint on a Toronto store, commonly known as vandalism, on Nov. 10, 2023, the same date as Kristallnacht (unmentioned in the Star article) smacks of antisemitism and should not be dismissed as mere civil disobedience. Our provincial government is spending OUR money on a print and media ad campaign touting how great things are in Ontario.
In the meantime, health care is in deep trouble, housing (for average people) is a problem, and the list goes on. Sending out $200 to every Ontarian (despite level of financial need) and pouring money into a thinly disguised election campaign tells me something about this government’s focus. Can anyone tell us how much this “new day” is costing us? I’m not alone in saying that huge numbers of Ontarians are not “feeling good.
” , Nov. 14 Premier Doug Ford once again fails to follow his own rules. He recently forced the LCBO to cancel a contract for paper bags and reissue it to an Ontario company.
This in spite of the fact that the chosen supplier was a Canadian company and provided a lower price. Then our premier makes a $100-million deal with a foreign company owned by the odious Elon Musk and shuts out MDA Space, an Ontario company with a long history of successful space and satellite endeavours. Ford’s current rabble-rousing stance on bike lanes follows his common diversionary tactic of creating a tempest in a teapot while he sneaks through deals for foreign billionaires.
, Nov. 15 Some people question whether RCMP officers should wear body cameras, but the real question is, when will the RCMP release its investigation report into Doug Ford’s Greenbelt land deals to his developer friends? , Nov. 14 Mayor Olivia Chow noted that “the money needed to remove the lanes could be better spent elsewhere.
” It’s interesting that she didn’t feel that the amount initially spent on putting them in — “$27 million” according to the city — could have been better spent — such as for helping to solve the homeless, encampment crisis. , Nov. 11 Trips to Italy, Hawaii and New Zealand on the taxpayer dime is completely outrageous.
A three-day stay at the former SkyDome hotel? This is insulting. My thinking here is that staff retreats, and all other staff meetings and outreach gestures should be held in the school cafeteria when not in use. Anyone heard of zoom? Students can provide the artwork school trustees seem to crave.
I am exhausted by this wasteful use of taxpayer funds by people who should be cognizant of wasting educational funds. Where is the oversight? These trustees should be required to pay back these funds as a warning to all future employees. , Nov.
15 It’s long overdue for many services in Canada to be designated essential services — namely the railroads, the commercial ports, sections of health care and Canada Post. Compulsory arbitration is a best solution if management and labour cannot resolve contract differences. A strike is not.
Canada Post, which has lost approximately $500 million annually for the past few years due to poor management, is now on strike again causing serious problems for many people including those who receive wages, pensions and CRA communications by post. There already has been a significant shift by clients to other delivery services putting Canada Post in an even more precarious situation. This has been an issue for far too many years with no satisfactory solutions.
Enough is enough. Common sense must prevail. Compulsory arbitration is the way to go.
Get on with it..
