Category: Welfare

Canada’s Welfare Trap / US Gun Mayhem

  Interested in poverty?  The distribution of income?  Our social policies? The new edition of Welfare Incomes is now available from the National Council of Welfare.  It’s full of interesting (and depressing) information.  Your public or university library will have a copy. Some brief quotes: “Most welfare incomes remain far below any socially accepted measure [...]

Monday January 24th, 2011 in Canadian Politics, Guns, Income Disparity, Poverty, US Politics, Welfare | 1 Comment »

What are they thinking? Are they thinking?

  Next time someone writes a truly dumb column about Conrad Black (see the oped page in The Globe), remind them about Black’s profound declaration that “caring and compassion really means socialism.” What do you say we get him a job in the main food bank in Toronto if he’s ever allowed back into this [...]

Wednesday August 11th, 2010 in Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Canadian Politics, Conrad Black, Health Care, OECD Comparisons, Taxation, US Politics, Welfare | 1 Comment »