TORONTO – As I was going through past blog entries and tagging them with regional indicators… so you, gentle reader, can search for entries relevant to, say, “Tajikistan” or “Canada” or “USA,” I came across an entry from the last Canadian federal election campaign.
In it, I noted Ontario Liberal Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s then comment […]
TORONTO — Toronto City Council today voted (29-12) to prohibit political donations from corporations and unions. As I discussed in my posting on 25 November, I applaud this decision.
There is no doubt this is the right thing to do. Donations to political campaigns weigh heavily on the outcomes of elections. While each vote is counted […]
TORONTO – Today’s buzz around Toronto City Hall relates to a proposal to ban corporate donations to political campaigns. There are so few reasonable ideas (and almost no good ones) at City Hall these days, that I am compelled to speak up about this one, because it’s bang on.
Banning corporate money is the right thing […]
BRUSSELS – I woke up early today and, eschewing the 30 Euro buffet breakfast proffered in the hotel, headed out onto the streets of Brussels to find a coffee and croissant. Or, even, just a coffee. Alas, I was stymied. Not a coffee or pastry to be found today. All the shops on the high […]
TORONTO Ontario’s public prosecutors have decided to make a public example of David Chen, who owns and operates a small retail store in Toronto’s Chinatown. His store, and many others on his block, has been repeatedly victimized by shoplifters, including one day last May when a shoplifter stole a number of potted plants from the […]
DUSHANBE — Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is in full backpedal mode, having withdrawn part of a stupid new bill that earned Coffee’s fourth Stupid Law of the Week Award.
As reported in the Globe and Mail newspaper, McGuinty will excise part of the legislation which banned more than one teenager in a car driven by a […]
DUSHANBE — Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty earns Coffee’s 4th Stupid Law of the Week award with his government’s proposal to defy Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms by banning legal behaviour by young adults.
McGuinty’s Law is, ostensibly, about minimizing deaths caused by drinking and driving. In order to do this, he proposes to make it […]