Monthly Archives: August 2003

Gas pains

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Why are Canadians so eager to blame the oil companies for controlling and boosting gas prices?  Gas prices are mostly the price of oil, which is close to $32, (as high as it ever has been), and taxes.  Don’t forget, 90c/liter includes 6 cents of just GST.  So the next time you ask the government to step in and control prices, remember that they are just as to blame as the oil companies allegedly are.

Gasoline prices hit record highs in Vancouver on Tuesday and crept upwards in most other Canadian cities

Conservative Alert

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Another good sign Ernie may win: he is actually espousing a conservative view on homosexual marriage.

But Premier Ernie Eves yesterday gave a heavy hint about where his sympathies lie. His position du jour was that marriage can only occur between a man and a woman, a view he first espoused this month, but one in stark contrast to his previous iterations on the subject.

Keep it, Ernie.  You may just get us alienated conservatives out to vote next month.  Now, clear up your living arrangements and do the right thing with your “life partner”.

New Registry

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Surprised the feds haven’t caught on to this trend: how about a gun rental registry?  I mean, it appears the bad guys are now renting guns by the hour.

Detectives in 23 Division, which encompasses Toronto’s northwest Rexdale neighbourhood, are investigating reports that weapons are rented out for as much as $250 an hour from private homes and nightclubs.

I hate giving the feds more ideas to steal our money for no good reason, but the irony was just too delicious to pass up.

Christ, with a billion dollars, or whatever it costs per year to run the registry, just imagine the extra cops in 23 division to quash crime.  Of course, there’d be way more speed traps on my way to work too, but such is the cost.

Open your eyes!

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At least the Canadian population has its collective eyes open to terrorists, according to a poll.

Apparently, most residents of Toronto don?t agree with Canadian PM Chr?tien when he says ?there are no terrorists in Canada:? Terrorism a threat in Ontario: poll.

Maybe Crouton will catch on, since he rules by poll.

VIA LGF

Fell an Oak(ley)

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According to my referrer logs, everyone wants to know about John Oakley, ex of CFRB.  Well, apparently he has surfaced on Talk 640, as their morning man.

If you ask me, he won’t make it.  Talk just doesn’t have the drawing power, and John’s irreverance just isn’t what the morning needs.  People want to laugh, not think.  Even though John’s caustic humor is very good, the radio needs more Howard kind of humor, mindless and titillating as it is.

Oh well, yet another talent sacrificed on the morning radio alter.

Orwell Watch

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More scary stuff bubbling up in the UK.

EVEN George Orwell would have choked. Government officials are drawing up plans to fit all cars in Britain with a personalised microchip so that rule-breaking motorists can be prosecuted by computer.

What the hell is going on over there?

Child Abuse

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Child abuse manifests itself in different ways: here’s one of them. This is animal abuse too, as the dog will likely be destroyed.  The person that really needs to go to jail is the Dad, who actually saw the beginning of the attack.

Startled by the pet’s response, Daniel backed off, said his dad, who was in the kitchen when the attack occurred.

To save stupid people and their children from themselves, any strain of pit bull should require special licensing.

Eves recovery

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I believe Eves will win the next election, due to his good performance during the blackout/state of emergency days.

To his credit, he has had the best week of his premiership –displaying a level of humanity and leadership that many thought beyond him.

I don’t think the election will be as much of a nailbiter as the above link says.

Going nuclear

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Hugh Winsor says that the feds latest boondoggle, the Kyoto extortion protocol, is ignoring the generation solution for Ontario: Advanced Candu.

The U.S. nuclear regulator, for instance, reported that the 104 reactors operating there produced power last year at an average 1.59 cents per kilowatt-hour, less than half the price cap a panicky Ontario government imposed on producers last year.

We’re even helping our enemy get powered up, leaving us in the dust.

Nobody mentions that the two most recent reactors built by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. in China have gone on-line ahead of schedule and under budget.

So that’s how it happened

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Seems like the blame keeps sticking to First Energy of Ohio, who messed up Michigan, who we were linking to to get our power.

That caused the problem to spread to Ontario, which had been importing power from eastern Michigan.

If we are not going to build any more plants for our growing population, then we better figure out a better way to monitor the power grid outside of Ontario if we are going to rely on it.

How about hiring someone or two and calling down south every 15 minutes, to see if there is a blackout coming our way?

Just a thought.

Walk on the beach

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I thought Crouton said there were no terrorists in Canada.  Luckily some of these “ghosts” aren’t too smart.

Two more “associates of the group” were deemed suspicious when Durham Region police found them outside the gates of the Pickering station on an April, 2002 morning.

“They requested that they be allowed to enter the perimeter in order to go for a walk on the beach,” the document states.