Newsletter sign-up
-
Recent Posts
Category Archives: Other
Lawrence Solomon: Health Canada should perk up
(May 20, 2011) Over the last few years, I have been struck by the avalanche of studies indicating that coffee consumption promotes human health. Just last week came news from Swedish researchers in the peer-reviewed Breast Cancer Research that showed a significant decrease in breast cancers among post-menopausal women who were avid coffee drinkers. Continue reading
Posted in Natural Resources, Other
Tagged Caffeine, coffee, Health Canada, Lawrence Solomon
Leave a comment
Food industry needs to control its salt shakers
(May 17, 2011) Re: Shake that Salt, Opinion, May 12 Continue reading
Posted in Natural Resources, Other
Tagged Food industry, health, Lawrence Solomon, salt, sodium
1 Comment
Worst polluters still get breaks
(February 21, 2008) The B.C. government this week introduced what it hails as North America’s first carbon tax, but many will see it mostly as just another hike in the gas tax, and for good reason. The gas tax, rising to 7.24¢ per litre over four years, will do next to nothing apart from increasing the provincial take – Europe with its sky-high gas taxes and ever-increasing auto use demonstrates the ineffectiveness of gas taxes in curbing the car. Continue reading
Posted in Other
Leave a comment
Get Ontario off the property-tax roller coaster
(May 6, 2006) Mike Harris was one of the greatest redistributionists in Ontario history. He left behind a self-perpetuating property-tax mess, and also the highest property-tax regime in the Western world. Now property owners have had enough and Harris’s Liberal successor, Dalton McGuinty, vows to clean it up. Continue reading
Posted in Other, Taxation
Leave a comment
Getting it Right
(March 1, 2006) Investigation into the transparency of the property assessment process and the integrity and efficiency of decision-making at the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation. Continue reading
Posted in Other, Taxation
Leave a comment
