Tuesday, March 30, 2010

$45,000 Jackpot, each, for HST collectors

Dalton McGuinty's HST deal just keeps getting worse for Ontario families.Now HST tax collectors are getting rich with $25 million in severances... and they are not losing their jobs and won't even miss a day of work.While the rest of us will be forced to pay more for gas, hydro, home heating fuel, minor sports and dozens of other everyday expenses, Dalton McGuinty is dolling out up to $45,000 to each of his HST tax collectors as part of his HST scheme.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Dalton McGuinty Hits Ontario Families with New $53 Million Hidden Hydro TaxDalton

Dalton McGuinty Hits Ontario Families with New $53 Million Hidden Hydro TaxDalton McGuinty has been caught trying to sneak a new energy tax onto to the hydro bills of Ontario families.McGuinty’s Hidden Hydro Tax is the fifth separate tax, charge, or price increase that is being imposed on Ontario families. Worse yet, the public were not given advance warning or information on the McGuinty Government’s new $53 million dollar hydro tax.“Nobody is surprised that Dalton McGuinty continues to look for new ways to take money out of the wallets of Ontario families. The McGuinty Liberals have outdone themselves by sneaking a new $53 million hydro tax in through the back door,” said Ontario PC Party Leader Tim Hudak.The new Liberal hidden hydro tax will be applied directly to hydro bills. It will be applied in addition to Dalton McGuinty’s $3 billion HST tax grab which will drive up hydro bills by an additional 8%.
(Author: Tim Hudak)

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

A tale of two Olympics

It almost feels like months or a very long time since the golden boy of Canadian hockey, Sid the Kid, scored the golden goal. Even the organizers in their wildest dreams would not have dreamed of scripting an end as such. The games ended on a high and Canada truly ruled the world. CTV, well it could not have enough of the atheletes and even dedicated countless boring minutes to felicitating the medal winners in their studio (albeit, if only they could hold on to them in their studio and keep them from rushing to the pending final hockey game).

Well that was then, wild coverage. So, where exactly did they lose the script. Whatever happened to the Paralympics games coverage? Did it not have an opening ceremony? It had, a beautiful one, but then that not a big revenue earner for any television network. Sadly there was no telecast of that event.

Its never too late and now CTV has promised to telecast the closing ceremonies live. Now thats what I call true equality. If blaming the television networks is easy then test yourself, will you sit and watch or Hockey or a late sunday evening movie will be the preference?

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Let the good old anthem be!

What a storm in a tea cup over a needless issue. When we are struggling with a delicately recovering economy, millions still without jobs, a huge deficit, do we really need silly issues like this. To my mind the greatest irony lay in the fact that scores of women interviewed on TV did not even seem to lend their feminity to the cause. Let it be was all they said.
Thankfully the governemnt listened and it turned out to be one of the shortest short-lived issue. What would be interesting would be to peek into the mind of one of the architects of this move and see just what they were thinking? Really was it for the cause of equality or a political move designed to garner support, sympathy or just distraction from other issues.
O Canada!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Suffering in Canada

Its been a while - got lost dealing with the real issues - I've been scribbling, collecting and finally its all ready in a book - more on that later.

However what better way to get back than to quote one of our own national leaders on what my book is all about. Jack Layton writes a great article, "There is suffering in our own backyard". I think its a must read. Here is the link if you want to see it.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/02/08/jack-layton-there-is-suffering-in-our-own-backyard.aspx