ChristianGovernance Report – November 24, 2010
God’s law in brief
First Timothy, chapter 2 provides us with a good reminder of the correct positioning between God and the king, between the Messianic Ruler of heaven and earth and the civil magistrate.
It’s a simple lesson, and it’s not explicit, but it’s there.
Financial Post – Nov. 16, 2010
Laggard Ontario
By Livio Di Matteo
The Ontario government will be tabling its fall economic statement in the legislature on Thursday. Premier Dalton McGuinty, who has been seemingly unaware of the impact of his energy and economic policies on the province’s economy, would do well to take heed from the danger signs provided by another update – the recent Statistics Canada update to provincial GDP numbers.
National Post – Nov. 15, 2010
Bureaucracies ‘stealth’ subsidize have-not provinces: study
By Kathryn Blaze Carlson
Ottawa Sun – November 12, 2010
Too cosy by far: Time to get rid of old, stale, comfortable MPs of all stripes
By Brian Lilley, QMI Agency
We need to throw the bums out. I’m not talking political parties or leaders at this point, but the actual bums filling the seats in the House of Commons. Some of them have been there just way too long.
National Post – November 5, 2010
MRI services blur lines on for-profit health care
By Tom Blackwell
The Ottawa Citizen – November 4, 2010
Emergency room moved to parking lot at Ontario hospital
By Lee Greenberg
TORONTO — An overcrowded Ontario hospital has moved some of its overflow emergency room operations to an unlikely location — the parking lot. The Credit Valley hospital, in suburban Mississauga, said it renovated an ambulance bay to accommodate “spikes” in demand like those that happened during the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. The renovations include “heating and other necessary utilities for patient care,” according to an email from Krista Finlay, a hospital spokeswoman.
October 25, 2010
Ontario Premier named worst fiscal manager
The Fraser Institute has named BC Premier Gordon Campbell as Canada’s most astute fiscal manager at the provincial level. Ontario Premier Dalton Mcguinty was rated shockingly low.
By CanadianManufacturing.com Staff
VANCOUVER: British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell ranks as the best of 10 provincial premiers at fiscal policy management, according to a new study released by the Fraser Institute.
National Post – Oct. 25, 2010
Editorial: Health care choice for all
From Saskatchewan, cradle of medicare, comes news that members of the Roughriders football club there are able to queue-jump public MRI waiting lists by paying $4,500 to cover their scan and two others.
The agenda advanced here by the Sustainable Prosperity think tank is outrageous. This is an act of provocation against free and democratic societies. They advocate for pricing natural resources, giving a superficial nod to free market economics. But this model has nothing to do with private property rights and property owners charging people for resources they own.