Cold, Pale Hands

Cold Dead Hands The "W" Word 50 Comments

Listen up, racist.

A new study has found that higher levels of racism in white Americans is associated with having a gun in the home and greater opposition to gun control policies. […]
The research was stimulated by gun control debates in the US after mass shootings such as the Sandy Hook tragedy, and research showing that with all things being equal black Americans are more likely to be shot than whites.

Luckily, Liberal

The Libranos 22 Comments

Sun News;

By the end of Wednesday, I not only found that lovely three-storey pile McGuinty called home for nearly nine years but apparently that “stately renovated detached” home on a “family-friendly dead end street” with its “custom cook’s kitchen,” a walkout to a deck and yard, five bedrooms and finished basement — according to a recent real estate listing — just sold on Sept. 17.
The purchase price was $1.7 million.
The home was bought by the Ontario Liberal party for $995,000 in early 2004 — meaning they made more than $700,000 on the deal […]
Still, McGuinty did manage to charge taxpayers an average of $11,778 per year, not exactly chump change, for the last five years for his Toronto housing allowance, according to Ontario legislature documents.
Zita Astravas, a spokesman for Premier Kathleen Wynne, told me Wednesday — via e-mail — that he was entitled to expense utilities, telephone costs, the use of a cleaning woman, cable TV rental, furniture rental, moving expenses and contents insurance to Ontario taxpayers on top of that free Rosedale house.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

Alternative Subsidy 20 Comments

FP;

Solar energy – one of the key pillars of the Green Energy and Economy Act (GEEA) – is casting a dark cloud over Ontario electricity bills and is a big factor in recent and future bill increases. In 2013, solar projects caused electricity bills to be about $550-million higher than they would otherwise have been. For a typical homeowner, this works out to $47 per year. Ontario will have an estimated 1,100 MW of solar installed by year-end and roughly 900 MW will be added in 2014. This addition will cause 2014 electricity bills to increase by another $435-million – equal to a typical homeowner increase of $37 per year. By the end of 2014, solar will be costing Ontarians $1.25-billion per year – while generating a paltry 2% of Ontario’s total electricity requirement.
How did Ontario get here?

Stupidity. Next question?

Renegade Regulator

CSA 17 Comments

Is there not a Conservative convention going on somewhere?

The mandate of the CSA is microscopic, its coordinative and secretarial, their actual responsibilities could be accomplished with 10 – 12 full time staff and about $6MM in annual budget. Yet the CSA has over 1,600 full time staff and an annual budget of more than a quarter billion dollars. […]
Some of CSA’s activities “as diverse as life itself” involve bemoaning the problems of living “life itself.” Among CSA’s life-focussed worries, “too many people live without adequate financial means.” Yes. And we’re all quite concerned about this, and have been for some time, actually. The CSA wants to focus on “social good” and “delivering societal benefits” and “helping to identify and manage these issues, and in reducing [the] adverse effects” of living “without adequate financial means.” However noble these interests may be, they are dramatically, even profoundly, outside of CSA’s actual “engineering materials” purpose. […]
From former Chair, Daniel Gagnier; “We consider not only what we do […] but also how we made a difference in people’s lives.” This, from the agency responsible for bankrupting the companies to whom they sold counterfeit safety certifications. The CSA’s surely made a difference in their lives. “The CSA […] helps detect, expose and punish unauthorized use of our certification marks”. This, from Canada’s most prolific counterfeiter of certification marks. “Smart people don’t waste time or money.” This, from a domestic regulator that spends over $65,000 per day on travel, over thirteen million dollars per year on “other,” and that pays rent on thirty-five superfluous offices at golf courses and yacht clubs around the world.

Read the whole thing. This exposé needs to go further than one guy’s blog site.

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