News and Weather Networks are Pointless and Should be Off Basic Cable
The only time I every watch a 24 hour "news" network is via the Daily Show with John Stewart. For anybody that can read, the Internet is a much better source of news. Dito, perhaps even more so, for...
View ArticleThe CBC is a Waste of Money
The government subsidizes TV. That's like having the Queen on the money (they don't even do that in Scotland). It is anachronistic and should end.Poor people pay far more federal taxes in Canada than...
View Article5 millions pour la F1, rien pour le mascaret de Moncton
La F1 c'est une fin de semaine par année et pourtant le gouvernement Harper lui accorde 5 millions de dollars par année pour les prochains 20 ans. Le mascaret de Moncton, quant à lui, est à tous les...
View ArticleISIS is Not Our Problem
So there are a bunch of armed religious zealots running around Syria and Iraq trying to turn that region into a Saudi Arabia minus the Saudi part. How is that Canada's problem?-Are they a military...
View ArticleJurisdiction and the TTC
The rules of federalism don't always make sense. John A. Macdonald wasn't a fan.But it is what it is and we have it. If you want to mess with it, Toronto, and have the federal government pay for bus...
View ArticleFees When Donating Online to Canadian Political Parties
I just finished watching The Ides of March on Netflix Canada and I got in the mood to make a donation to a political party. Since I haven't waited until the last minute this year, I thought about...
View ArticleWhat Air Asia Does Different
Firstly, let me premise that I'm not convinced Air Asia is profitable. Any reported "profits" could simply be accounting manipulations based on unrealistic depreciation values assigned to new airplanes...
View ArticleAllegiance's Hope Davis is Not the Air Farce's Jessica Holmes
Wow, I just watched the entire first episode of NBC's new Allegiance dram (à la The Americans) thinking they had cast the Air Farce's Jessica Holmes as the Russian-American heroin. They didn't. In...
View ArticleGolden Age of Television
So people are stealing video in shocking numbers, and yet we are apparently in the "Golden Age" of television?The jury is still out on that one, in my humble opinion. But then again, I'm still miffed...
View ArticleStop Harper for 10 Cents a Day
A tight 3 way race. Isn't democracy great. But the Conservatives have more money than the Liberals or NDP.The NDP is going to win Quebec (Quebeckers despise both Harper and Trudeau).But many people in...
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