Avert Your Eyes

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Star columnist Martin Regg Cohn believes that allowing Ontario provincial taxpayers to see a list of all public sector employees who make more than $100,000 a year isn’t a nod to basic accountability and open, transparent government, but rather a “transparently political attack on unionized civil servants and other public sector employees.”
He calls it “salary pornography“:

“Society normally frowns on peep shows and public voyeurism. Except in Ontario, where it’s open season on public servants’ private lives. Log on to any computer, draw the drapes and pore through the perverse pleasures of the now notorious ‘sunshine list.’
“It claims to shed light on the darkest corners of the provincial bureaucracy. In reality, it stokes vilification and humiliation of frontline public servants….”

Have Ontario taxpayers no sense of decency?

“The longer change is stymied, the tighter the coil springs”

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Guest post – Larry Weber, Weber Commodities

This is NOT My Idea of PROGRESS…
It is Rain’s 7th birthday today, so I am feeling older again. And cranky. Although I love what I do, I wasn’t born to do this. I was born to be a farmer. It came from both sides of my hereditary equation. I was reminded last week on a blog that I have never suffered like a farmer. It is bullshit, as I endure not being a farmer, everyday. Life’s curves sometimes alter our journey; nevertheless, it was my genetic pool that made my life complex while in Winnipeg. At that time and as it still does to this day, everyone forgets where they came from the minute they walk into a grain company’s boardroom, as an employee or representing their constituents within a Board of Directors. It drove me near crazy then and it still does to this day. From my first expedition at a boardroom table, when the old boys club were aghast that I should even be allowed to speak until I was 40 years old (I was 26 at the time), the first words out of my mouth were “What about the farm?” Ed Conn, who I still admire as the shrewdest canola trader of my lifetime, looked at me and said, “Who cares!” The rest of the room fell silent. 60% of the people around that table had farm backgrounds. After thirty years of witnessing changes to the grain industry, sometimes pleading for change and fighting every opportunity I could for change – sooner or later it had to bite me in the ass. And it has. I don’t always know what is best for you, but I can go to my grave knowing that I always held one entity first and foremost above everything else – and that entity would be farmers.

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Great Moments in Socialism

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Thomas Mulcair was just crowned leader of the [Not So] New Democrat Party of Canada. NDP President Rebecca Blaikie officially announced this and also stated unequivocally that he will be the next Prime Minister of Canada!
You can watch the Games of Delusion live here and the Harper Hatefest on Twitter here.
Update: For a fantastic analysis of Thomas Mulcair and his future, please read this from one of SDA’s favourite commenters, ‘ET’.

Hockey and the Modern Left

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There’s been a lot of talk of late about banning fighting in the NHL. This narrative appears to be popping up throughout popular culture, which of course is controlled by our “intellectual & moral betters” on the Left. Looking a few years into the future, if we follow the “progressive” agenda to its logical end, what would hockey look like?
Here is a fair comparison of the Left’s vision vs. Common Sense, when it comes to professional hockey:
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Air Canada: The Math Tells the Story

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Interesting times at Canadian airports these days, but it’s not clear whether the average Canadian understands precisely what the real problem at Air Canada really is.
Charles Adler’s end of week segment with the Globe & Mail’s Dan Cook revealed some startling facts:
> Market Cap: $227 Million = $0.227 Billion
> Pension Liabilities: $13 Billion
In other words, the company owes approximately 57 times in union pension commitments than it is currently worth.
Since many people’s eyes glaze over when they see “millions” & “billions”, another way to look at is like this:

Imagine a 25 year old, living on his own in a rented apartment, tallies up everything he owns and determines it to be worth $10,000. Then he looks at credit card and bank statements and realizes he owes $570,000.

That, in a nutshell, is Air Canada’s predicament today.
Update: The $227 Million market cap and $13 Billion pension liabilities were accurately reported from what Dan Cook said on the radio program. But SDA regular ‘KevinB’ says this may not be correct. His comment is well worth a read.

Greece: The Socialist Nirvana Realized!

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The old adage, “Be careful what you wish for”, is sure playing out in Greece. Most of the populace hopped on the Socialist Bandwagon generations ago. Now they’ve ended up precisely where that bandwagon always takes one under socialist rule. Yet in this recent BBC Radio Documentary, young, “educated” Greeks seem shocked & surprised that endless corruption, nepotism, and endless incompetence rules the day and is at the very heart of why their dreams have been crushed and they’re going to spend the rest of their lives wasting away, unemployed. Unless they leave, that is, and admit that capitalism & free markets are the answers to their prayers.

#sunfight

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Very fun reading the time-line and replies of @TheBrazman today. Seems he’s upset a certain Toronto journalist. She, of course, threatens to ask ‘tough questions’.
Sun News Network will be broadcasting the match between Senator Brazeau and Justin Trudeau on the 31’st. Tune in and maybe send a little something to the Canadian Cancer Society, eh?
For the record…Brazeau wins in a walk.

The Latest, Greatest Gift to Race Baiters

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My heart goes out to the family and friends of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager who was shot & killed on February 26th. It’s beyond unfortunate though to see race baiters like Karen Finney use this tragedy as a prop to build up “cred” on their CVs. As Ms. Finney adds fuel to the fire, one wonders if she’ll take any responsibility if others now get injured or killed as part of the retribution for Trayvon?
And, of course, there still is the whole issue of George Zimmerman being innocent until proven guilty. But why should race baiters let that tiny, little point get in the way of their careers?!

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

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A politician who gets it:

In March 7 comments at the Nebraska Cattlemen symposium in Lexington, [Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman] said of the HSUS: “We’re going to kick your ass and send you out of the state.”
And in a speech in Washington in January, he called upon farm-focused lawmakers from across the country to fight the HSUS.
“I’m a graduate of West Point. I’m an Army Ranger,” Heineman said then. “This guy (Pacelle) wants to engage in guerrilla warfare, I’ll teach him a thing or two.”
In a December 2010 speech to the Cattlemen, Heineman said he didn’t trust Pacelle and his organization. “No deals. No compromise,” the governor said.

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