Author Archives: Other News Sources

Without regard to race, colour, creed or breed

Posted on May 20, 2006 by Other News Sources

(May 20, 2006) Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice will soon decide whether the province’s ban on pit bulls is constitutional. Continue reading →

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Get Ontario off the property-tax roller coaster

Posted on May 6, 2006 by Other News Sources

(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 →

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1 billion Americans

Posted on April 21, 2006 by Other News Sources

(April 21, 2006) “Living next to you,” Pierre Elliot Trudeau famously said in a speech to the National Press Club in the United States, “is like sleeping with an elephant; no matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” Continue reading →

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New policies bring more Toronto sprawl

Posted on March 26, 2006 by Other News Sources

(March 26, 2006) A Toronto megalopolis, 150 kilometres in girth, will be born of the Ontario provincial budget announced this week. The budget’s big-ticket transportation projects will drive this outcome through measures that will undermine public transit in the city while accelerating suburban sprawl in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. Continue reading →

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Immigration carrots and sticks

Posted on March 23, 2006 by Other News Sources

(March 23, 2006) Immigrant criminals and immigrant terrorists are giving immigrantion a bad name. Stephen Harper should live up to his law-and-order image and throw these miscreants out of the country. Continue reading →

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