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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...

The nearly $68-billion Ottawa will send to the provinces next year in healthcare, postsecondary education and equalization transfers is an aggregate amount. But how that money gets divvied up between the provinces is based on a series of mind-bogglingly complex formulas that factor in tax revenues, population shifts, recent economic performance and a host of other variables. That means that, although overall federal cash transfers will increase by 4.6 per cent next year, every have-not province except Ontario will see a much smaller increase. Overall, equalization payments will increase by $672-million next year. But Ontario will get 56 per cent of that total. With $iJ25-billion or 6 per cent more from Ottawa next year, Ontario will again replace Quebec as the biggest recipient of overall federal transfers, with a haul of $204-billion. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne might consider this only right, considering that last year, Ottawa cancelled a discretionary program that e...

President Obama himself tweeted on May 16, 2014: “97% of scientists agree: climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.” John Kerry, Al Gore, and a host of others have championed this statistic. Since then, it has become clear that this statistic was inaccurate.  The Wall Street Journal went as far as to say, “The assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is a man-made, urgent problem is a fiction.” Forbes headlined “Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring ’97% Consensus’ Claims.” Come to find out, the study President Obama was citing was botched from the start.  A host of other problems for the global warming crowd are emerging, such as . . . Leaked emails from global warming scientists state that the Earth is not warming, such as this one from Kevin Trenberth that states, “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty we can’t.” Claude Allegre, the founding father of the man-mad...

You can read the entire article on Snopes. Both have the same amount of calories, butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter according to a recent Harvard Medical Study. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods, butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added! Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years. Now for Margarine, very high in trans fatty acids triple risk of Coronary Heart Disease, Increases total and LDL ( This is the bad Cholesterol), Lowers HDL cholesterol and this is the good one, Increases the risk of cancers by up to five fold, lowers quality of breast milk, decreases immune response, and decreases insulin respo...

As the State of the Union shows, Mr. Obama is a U.S. liberal and Mr. Harper is a Canadian conservative. That the two men stress different priorities domestically doesn't matter much, but they can lead to conflict. Mr. Obama, for example, believes in the seriousness of Climate change, whereas Mr. Harper does not, a clash that has shaped their dispute over the Keystone XL pipeline. The Harper government has allowed that one pipeline to excessively define the state of bilateral relations. A grievance mentality has settled over the Harper government because of Keystone XL, which Mr. Obama obviously opposes, although no final decision has been rendered. The grievance mentality is deepened by the sense that the Americans have given nothing in return for Canadian participation in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the venue Canada provided for the U.S.-Cuba talks. With political optics defining almost everything in Ottawa, the Harper government dreaded a late-February meeting ...