Beer nuts, actually

He may regret saying it, but there’s little doubt it’s from a deep liberal mindset that government knows how to blow your money best.

A top aide to Liberal Leader Paul Martin apologized on Sunday shortly after suggesting on national television that Canadians might spend child-care money on beer and popcorn.

I’d rather have us knuckle draggers have more of our own money than write a another check to Quebec.

Forced diversity doesn’t work

Fred thinks birds of a feather flock together for a reason.

I think we need homogeneity. Probably the greatest desire of humanity other than getting sex is avoiding diversity. Mostly, people can’t stand each other. I respect their judgement.

Power-less

Once more, another report making any normal person fearful of Ontario’s power future.

Ontario’s decision to close all of its coal plants will leave electricity supply so tight that every new generation project must be completed on time in the next two years to avoid power shortages, sources said today.

Imagine that

It’s interesting that child care is such an important election issue.  It’s more interesting that the Conservative platform is so in tune with the public.

When you say one type of child care is parents’ first choice and another is their last choice, how do you know that?

A: We’ve done a lot of research and also rely on study by the Vanier Institute of the Family, which is also used by the Liberal government. Their studies have a lot of insight. They found that 95 per cent of working moms and 85 per cent of working dads would choose to stay home if they could afford to.

Bite into this stock

All Canadians should buy a few of these shares, since almost all of us spend money here daily.

Tim Hortons Inc., Wendy’s Canadian coffee and doughnuts chain, registered Thursday for an initial public offering of up to $600 million (U.S.) in stock.