From The Old To The New + 100 Years

-



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ontario Fiscal Mess

-
Image
Ontario is in a moral and financial mess. It is also very apparent this province is greatly polarized between rural and urban voters. Rural voters are still smarting from the Green Energy Act saw wind turbines foisted on unwilling communities. Budget promises a made-in-Ontario pension plan that will bring in a payroll tax of almost $ 1,000 a year for corporations that will hurt.This province will almost certainly see a credit downgrade within days of a Liberal Budget passing. We've already seen credit watches and warnings. Our debt is almost $300 billion and there's no credible plan to balance the books. Conservatives told voters by  down sizing the civil service and implement a pay freeze for two years.This is the way to go. Message fell on deaf ears.Ontario voters have no appetite to do what it to needs to do to get this province on the right financial track. Liberal government will keep everyone on staff, won't freeze wages and still balance the books....
Read more

Selling Hydro One

-
Image
My Cousin in New Zealand has some input when governments make poor decisions that are detrimental to segments of the population that do not have the means to cope. The same thing  could happen to Ontarians. ----------------------------------  We worked for this Company for nearly 40 years and have seen it go from a World recognized company to a comedy of errors caused by  a Liberal government who have no idea what they are doing. ---------------------------------- --------Original message------- From: Martyn and Stephanie (GMT-05:00) To: Peter & Jean  Subject: Re: Hydro one Hi Peter- Our electricity companies were publicly owned until a  right-wing government in the 1990s decided privatisation was the  way to go. Result? Rocketing prices for consumers, fat profits for  the private owners....we wish we could go back to the way things  were. Old people here don't get any rebate for rising power  pr...
Read more

Rob Ford voted against honouring Nelson Mandela

-
Image
On the same day Rob Ford voted against honouring Nelson Mandela, another famous world leader chimed in on the mayor, with former U.S. president Bill Clinton having a few laughs at Ford’s expense on a late night comedy show. “I will say this: He has absolutely destroyed every stereotype people have about Canadians,” Clinton said on the Jimmy Kimmel Live program Wednesday. “The Canadians are upbeat, optimistic, can-do, they are embracing, they’re inclusive… “Everything I ever believed about Canadians, ol’ Rob has proved that you can’t be stereotyped positive or negative, I guess,” the 42nd president of the United States, no stranger to political scandal himself, said.
Read more