US Car debate

A good article on buying a car in the US with your high flying loonie bucks.

A Canadian couple says they were turned down dozens of times when they tried to buy a new car in the United States and are challenging what they regard as illegal discrimination.

Bottom line: hire a broker or US car buying service and save the headache.

Common sense again

Your daily dose of what you already know, but needed to hear.

A new Canadian study suggests that babies&#xu2;019 social and mental development is best when moms don&#xu2;019t return quickly back to work after a birth. This from the National Post:

Oh Goody

More good news for those that would surrender their babies to others.

The largest daycare corporation in the world &#xu2;013 often criticized for cutting care to raise profits &#xu2;013 is bringing its controversial form of big-box privatized child care to Canada.

Hope they’re close to the big box stores so their mother’s are too inconvenienced.

Calcification of education

Fulford writes that the surrender of local parents and communities to big bureaucracies is showing the inevitable results.

Education, as education bureaucrats will tell you, is the road to the future. But in much of Canada today, it’s a path to mediocrity.

I wish I was not experiencing it firsthand.

Bewitched is bedazzling

More proof that I was born 20 years too late…I have recently started watching Bewitched, which for all intents and purposes, was probably one of the best TV series ever produced.

Most if it seems to be out on DVD now, and I highly recommend it over today’s TV offerings.

Ghostly bike

I’m no fan of mixing bikes up with motorized traffic on major routes, but I had to pause when I saw the above memorial on Bayview Ave. the other day. 

Here is the background on the story…I honestly don’t know why people risk their lives driving in traffic on a bike in Toronto.  It can’t be worth it.

Election post-mortem

Finally, an assessment I can agree with.

Nobody expected John Tory to lead the charge for a new conservatism in Ontario. He never said he would. Instead, being a good moderate Conservative of the old Red Tory school, he played the game according to the old rules: Don’t rock the boat,

Feeling prickly

Talk about a bad case of feeling pins and needles.

Chinese surgeons will try to remove 23 needles from a woman that doctors believe may have been imbedded under her skin by grandparents trying to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place.

Canada slips behind

More bad news for those of us who wonder where Canada will end up in the digital world down the road.

The speed at which the Internet has already transformed the world is truly amazing. The World Wide Web, which made the Internet a mass participation network, wasn’t even developed until the early 1990s and only began to take off in the mid-1990s.

Let’s not even talk about how far behind we are in the mobile data pricing/speed world.

Google saves

Listening to 680 news on the radio, I head about this foundation banning sad books.

Quickly, I found this link, which pointed out that this was satire.

Be careful listening to so-called legit news outlets…they most likely haven’t passed journalism 101, and are therefore no more reliable than any web outlet.

No sign on my lawn

Even though I voted conservative, I think it’s an easy call that the Libs in Ontario will have an even bigger majority, and Johnny won’t even win his own seat.

The old adage, governments are voted out, not in, holds true.  Dalton took a page out of John Chretien’s page, and has done almost nothing (except break promises). 

By being invisible, people can ignore government and continue making money.  Therefore, my next prediction, a record low turnout, is another easy call.