Category: Right-Wing Think Tanks

Harper Misrepresents Economic Reality

  I constantly find it amazing how our press lets Harper et al get away with dishonest information without contradiction.  Jim Stanford gave a few examples recently regarding Harper’s claim about how remarkably well Canada has performed during the recession. For example, contrary to what Harper, Flaherty and the columnists at the Post have been [...]

Thursday March 31st, 2011 in Corporate Profits, Education, Harper, Media, Right-Wing Think Tanks, The Economy | 5 Comments »

Rewarding War Crimes? / Canadians (Not The Right-Wing Pundits) Have It Right!

    If Donald Rumsfeld were to get a U.S. “Defender of the Constitution Award”, who do you think might be chosen to give the evil man the award?   Well, it’s none other than his old buddy Dick Cheney.  See Maureen Dowd’s excellent December 13th New York Times column for details.  Jillian will post [...]

Wednesday February 16th, 2011 in Canadian Politics, Income Disparity, Right-Wing Think Tanks, US Politics, War Crimes | 2 Comments »

Take a Stand Against the TMX “Merger”

  I find it difficult to understand why the Liberals, among many others, let the likes of Jack Mintz,, The National Post, and the other far-right wing sell-outs, get away with their persistent misleading propaganda about how Canadian Direct Investment Abroad is so much greater than foreign direct investment in Canada. I doubt that there [...]

Friday February 11th, 2011 in Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, Liberal Party of Canada, Right-Wing Think Tanks | 8 Comments »

Mind-blowing Statements

  Let’s start today with a couple of mind-blowing statements from a couple of astonishing sources. First, our old friend Conrad. I suppose if you are sentenced to jail in another country you can’t be expected to always keep up with what’s going on outside the slammer. Take, for example, the following from Conrad this [...]

Monday January 17th, 2011 in Conrad Black, Right-Wing Think Tanks | 3 Comments »

A Serious Error of Omission

  Most Canadians are unaware that Investment Canada only screens foreign takeovers of companies valued at $250 million or more.  As my previous posting on the number of takeovers pointed out, the figure of 1,600 takeovers in the last quarter century, used by both Eric Reguly and Barry McKenna in their articles in the Globe, [...]

Tuesday December 7th, 2010 in Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, Right-Wing Think Tanks | Comments Off

It’s Time to Junk the Senate.

Re the Fraser Institute’s suggestion that we suspend enforcement of the Canada Health Act, is it not quite amazing that anyone still takes these Neanderthals seriously?  Yes, I can understand the troglodytes in their caves at the National Post giving them prominence, but anyone else??? *     *     *     *     * Amazing! 40% of Americans say [...]

Friday November 26th, 2010 in Climate Change, Corporations, Electoral Reform, Health Care, Poverty, Right-Wing Think Tanks, The Senate, US Deficit/Economy, US Politics | 2 Comments »

Foreign “Investment” Deception

A letter in the Globe put it very well: “Being “open for business” without conditions is the badge of the banana republic.” Bravo!!!!! *     *     *     *     * The anti-Canadian deceivers (you know who they are) always refer to “foreign investment” but never to foreign ownership or foreign control. They either don’t understand the real [...]

Friday November 12th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Foreign Investment, Foreign Takeovers, Lobbyists, Right-Wing Think Tanks, US Politics, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Floundering US Economy / On Potash – It’s Looking Like Victory

You’ve probably seen my comments about how the average Canadian worker has done so poorly when compensation is compared to inflation during the past quarter century. Now the Conference Board forecasts that in 2010 and 2011, net wage increases will likely be non-existent, and, contrary to so much right-wing propaganda, public sector increases will be [...]

Sunday October 31st, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Foreign Takeovers, Income Disparity, OECD Comparisons, Peacekeeping, Potash, Right-Wing Think Tanks, The Economy, US Deficit/Economy | Comments Off

Median Income

  Want to take a guess as to what percentage of family income was paid in combined federal and provincial income tax in 2008? I can’t give you the answer right now but I expect to shortly. One thing is for sure, if you read The National Post or the stuff from The Fraser Institute, [...]

Thursday September 9th, 2010 in Right-Wing Think Tanks, Taxation | 1 Comment »

Hurtig Lecture / Canada’s Fox News / Our Arctic and Water

    I am very pleased to be able to tell you that the 5th annual Hurtig Lecture on the Future of Canada will take place at the University of Alberta on Saturday, September 25th, at 2:30 P.M. The speaker this year will be Mary Simon, the elected national leader of the Inuit Tapirit Kanatami, [...]

Thursday June 24th, 2010 in Arctic, Canadian Politics, Foreign Takeovers, Media, Right-Wing Think Tanks, Water | 5 Comments »