TORONTO — Yesterday, Toronto’s mayor David Miller unveiled a balanced budget for 2010 that may well condemn some city residents to death. Miller chose to balance the books not by reducing spending, but by another major increase in property taxes and the introduction of new service fees and penalties. Residents who call 9-1-1 […]
TORONTO — Although this post comes hot on the heels of my earlier commentary on the sad saga of Adam Giambrone, who is currently campaigning to be Toronto’s next mayor, this column is not about him.
This post is, however, inspired by some of the inane commentary currently clogging the airwaves of Toronto’s talk radio shows […]
TORONTO — Has the sun set on Canada’s Parliament? For years, Canadians have agreed the nation’s Senate was obsolete. Some want it overhauled, others want it abolished outright. That no one could agree on how to fix it has resulted in its languishing, unchanged, for decades. With the recent false furor […]
TORONTO – I have remarked in the past that the only thing that makes Pakistan’s incompetent politicians bearable to the average citizen there, is the sure knowledge the democratically elected legislators are entirely irrelevant to real life in the beleaguered nation. The Army runs the country and the Army, by and large, is competent. […]
TORONTO — First, let me say that my thoughts and prayers are with the families of those killed and wounded in yesterday’s horrific shooting incident at Fort Hood in the U.S. Second, let me say how disappointing it was watching the “insta-news” media machine grind through the day.
Much of what I’m going to cover in […]
TORONTO — I have written before about the strategic savoir faire of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Saturday’s attack on the headquarters of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi may prove to be the single biggest strategic blunder by the Taliban’s wing in Pakistan.
Pakistan is the Army
And, the Army is Pakistan.
The government in Pakistan is inept, corrupt […]
TORONTO – Today’ surprising announcement that U.S. president Barack Obama is the 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize must have the leader of the free world pulling his hair out.
Sure, it’s an amazing honor. And, it’s something to highlight on your resume if (a) you’ve won one and (b) if people believe you’ve earned […]
KABUL — Yesterday’s news from Toronto, my Canadian home, was that the mayor had caved in to pressure from the unions and surrendered the keys to the city. After a 36 day municipal workers’ strike, it appears the city has agreed to a contract that is largely unchanged from what was offered by the union […]
DUBAI — I had an unusual chance on Wednesday to watch the back end of U.S. president Barack Obama’s press conference on health care. He answered a number of questions
with answers that were, for a politician, unusually lengthy and detailed. The last question was off-topic, asking for his opinion of the hoopla surrounding the arrest […]
TORONTO — A story in today’s Toronto Star provides a perfect illustration of what ails Canada’s biggest city. Always worried that Toronto isn’t as “world class” as the Joneses of New York, London or Paris, Mayor David “Nero” Miller and his left-wing council decided that the city’s street vendors should offer a better class of […]