Your daily supply of punditry, eh?
The great video of Rex Murphy won't embed here, so here is a link toRex Murphy's POV. I highly recommend watching it.
Stephanie Jones is not happy about the increase in food costs borne out by the HST.
National Post's Jonathan Kay has this to say about the war on drugs:
This is just a small sampling from among dozens of stories I might have listed--including tales from Western Canada's own native reserves and Toronto's black slums. In each case, the plot is the same: Western drug addiction -- and our criminal/military response to it, whose primary effect is to drive up the profit margins by orders of magnitude -- is financing the creation and sustenance of drug gangs, terrorist groups, insurgencies and full-fledged narco-states around the world.
If it wasn't obvious a decade ago, it's certainly obvious now: The war on drugs is doing more damage than drugs themselves. Even the U. S. government -- whose otherworldly triumphalism regarding the drug war has long been the stuff of unintentional comedy -- now admits as much. On her recent trip to Mexico, U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared: "Clearly what we've been doing has not worked," and "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade."
André Pratte veut le CHUM maintenant, pas plus tard.
Il y a ceux qui rêvent encore à Outremont. Ceux qui voudraient un seul superhôpital à Montréal plutôt que deux. Ceux qui ne veulent pas d'un PPP. Il y a les médecins qui réclament plus de bureaux ici, plus de civières là. Il y a les partis de l'opposition qui ne veulent pas rater l'occasion de mettre le gouvernement dans l'embarras. Et il y a tous ceux qui s'amusent à désespérer des nombreux retards et augmentations des coûts.
John Ibbitson believes that no matter what Obama does with GM or Chrysler, he must be nationalizing them. Even though:
The administration is even tougher on Chrysler, which may be doomed. One of Chrysler's problems is that it was purchased in 2007 by Cerberus Capital Management, which doesn't know anything about making cars people want to buy. The administration has agreed to fund the company for another 30 days. It has that long to sell itself to Fiat, or else.
To top it off, either or both companies may be taken into bankruptcy to help shed their un-payable debts.
James Travers believes we should worry about the Americans plans for the Canada-US border.
Greg Weston
Similarly, the government is insisting no taxpayers' money be used to cover massive shortfalls in the automakers' pension funds, and executives can say goodbye to any rich raises, bonuses or golden handshakes until the loans have been repaid.
Instead, Canadian officials told reporters yesterday that the first bailout-loan cheque for $250 million was being cut immediately so Chrysler can meet payroll this week.
The situation is just that desperate.
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