Category: Foreign Aid

We’re becoming a Scrooge / Chronic Poverty

  In a list of 23 OECD donor countries, Canada has fallen to 14th place in foreign aid $ as a % of GDP.  In a World Bank list of 38 donor countries, we’re down in 29th place. So much for Canadian generosity! *     *     *     *     * A Calgary Herald editorial points out that Canada uses [...]

Monday December 27th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Energy, Foreign Aid, Harper, Income Disparity, Poverty | Comments Off

Only in Canada! Doesn’t It Make You Ill?

  Phew!  What a relief!  Now we can all sleep easier.  The experts in our Senate have “studied” the matter and now tell us not to worry about drilling for oil in the deep Atlantic where new wells will be twice as deep as in the Gulf of Mexico, and not in the Arctic either [...]

Some Facts on the State of Canada, Canada Day 2010.

  Here is how it works, as I’ve explained before:  (1) We sell an important Canadian company (try Stelco for example) to non-Canadians. (2) They make a bunch of big promises about how they will expand employment, increase investment and production in this country. (3) Instead, soon after, they begin to shut everything down (so [...]