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FORSETH – We don’t have a carbon tax, we have a consumption tax on hydrocarbons

February 20, 2017 // 4 Comments

WAKEY WAKEY … rise and shine!! I remember that from my youth (yah, it WAS a long time ago). Well it seems that this past week many in the media have finally awoken to [Continue]

KURL – Make public-opinion polling questionnaires great again

February 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

By SHACHI KURL and IAN HOLLIDAY Angus Reid Institute POLLSTERS AND POLLING organizations are frequently the target of criticism, derision and disdain. People don’t like the [Continue]

PETERS – Anti-Islamophobia motion unleashes hysteria among Conservative base

February 18, 2017 // 1 Comment

DEBATE IN OTTAWA reached a fever pitch as the week drew to a close. It’s bound to do that on wedge issues, as this one is, but rarely when it comes to issues that will [Continue]

COLLINS – Enough is enough; stop crying about bad city streets

February 18, 2017 // 3 Comments

ENOUGH ALREADY!! We already know that the city streets aren’t in ideal condition. We already know that the sidewalks in some cases are atrocious. We know that intersections [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The next time you worry about immigrants, spit into a tube and send it to the lab

February 18, 2017 // 3 Comments

I SPIT into a plastic tube a few weeks ago and popped it in the mail. This week, I got the results and the verdict is in — I am a classic universal Canadian. DNA testing [Continue]

BATEMAN – BC Hydro hiding behind FOI on deferral-accounts issue

February 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

IN THE DOG DAYS of summer, while the rest of the world was fixated on the excruciating minutiae of Trump vs. Clinton, Bill Bennett and Adrian Dix had their own war of words. [Continue]