Huckabee’s not in awe of the venerable U.S. Constitution, as he told a Michigan audience on Sunday: “[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it’s a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that’s what wecontinue reading
Worth switching supermarkets from
Though it seemed invincible earlier this decade when I covered retail stocks, Loblaws has been in trouble for years now. Once the behemoth of Central Canadian supermarkets, a vacuum of management and unending supply chain woes have led to a protracted demise. At the same time, Sobeys and Dominion have strategically moved into condo-loaded downtown,continue reading
On the “noxious” fruits of Canada’s hate speech laws
That’s what American legal, political and media commentator Glenn Greenwald [you may have to click through an ad] calls them anyway. No “American exceptionalism” chauvinist (closer to the opposite at least at the current time), he does think America has it right — and Canada wrong — on free speech. I’m curious if anyone hascontinue reading
Ian McEwan
Quite a fine interview with Ian McEwan in TNR linked below (hat tip to aldaily). I liked this quote, which neatly summarizes his spirit of sceptical humanism: “One passes the usual milestones in life: You have children, you find that whether you like it or not, you have a huge investment in the human project somehow succeeding.continue reading
Our cup overfloweth
Funding for Quebec City to Windsor high-speed rail studies: The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, today announced that the Government of Canada will fund up to one third of the cost of updating feasibility studies, including a passenger forecast study, for a high-speed rail service between Windsor, Ontario and Quebec City.continue reading
The real change candidate
Obama’s sweeping platitudes leaving you cold? Feeling contrary? Want to render the United States entirely unrecognizable after just four years? Think Huckabee. There’s the truly awe-inspiring plan to dismantle the entire existing tax regime and replace it with a black-market-inducing “Fair Tax”: Supporters of the sales tax plan are particularly drawn to the feature thatcontinue reading
So long, parity, we barely knew you
One week in, and the prevailing mood in 2008 is gloom: Globe and Mail: Mighty loonie may face eclipse “Everything is terrible now in Canada, from manufacturing to retail sales to tourism to exports,” said John Taylor, head of New York-based FX Concepts Inc. Happy new year! Outgoing Bank of Canada governor David Dodge pilescontinue reading
Happy New Year
It takes a village
Perhaps it’s because I’m a non-parent, and/or because I’m the child of an immigrant mother so enthralled by her chosen home of Canada that she believed Canadians incapable of all ill, leaving her kids to fend for themselves on buses, subways, and trans-border flights to grandparents in the statistically more perilous 70s, but shouldn’t thecontinue reading
Hats off to Hearst
Someone gets smart: Instead of dropping its Canadian prices, a U.S. magazine publisher has quietly removed the American price for its magazines — leaving only the Canadian price on the cover. You go, Hearst Magazines! What the market will bear! The hyperbolic reaction ranges from calling the move a “shell game” (The Star headline) tocontinue reading