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Clean Up Your Own Mess
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Wow! I’m not exactly Dalton McGuinty’s biggest fan, but he has finally said something that I can agree with.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has put the Canadian Auto Workers on notice that it should not look to the province to bail out pensioners if they cannot strike a deal to restructure General Motors.
Dalton has wasted enough [...]
Is Ken Lewenza For Real?
Thursday, March 5th, 2009In an effort to save jobs at GM Canada, CAW president Ken Lewenza says his union is prepared to make sacrifices. Mr. Lewenza is determined to find savings so Canadian plants can compete with GM plants in the United States.
However, in the his next breath, Mr. Lewenza says ”we believe we can maintain our existing wage and benefit package.” Basically, [...]
Pay Equity: A Severely Flawed Concept
Saturday, February 14th, 2009The editors at the Toronto Star just love little socialist equalizing concepts like Pay Equity. Today, they’re at it again with this little attack by Thomas Walkom.
Bill C-10 would end the right of federal civil servants to take pay equity complaints to the federal human rights commission. … And in determining whether wage rates for [...]
How To Kill An Economy
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008A few days ago, I was critical of an article in the Toronto Star, which was essentially a sob story about Canadians struggling in credit card debt, and how they blamed everybody but the people who actually racked up the debt.
Today, the Star has done it again, this time in a story about minimum wages by ‘Social [...]
Helping the Economy… NDP-Style
Thursday, May 1st, 2008I’m no fan of Dalton McGuinty, and I don’t believe he has any credible plan to properly manage the economy of Ontario. In fact, I’ve been critical of Dalton on that topic here, here and here. However, as bad as Dalton’s economic stewardship is, Howard Hampton and his band of merry socialists would be much worse!
Here’s what Hampton had [...]
Those Poor Underpaid Judges
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008It would seem that our federal judges feel they’re underpaid, which is why they have asked for a 10% pay hike to bring their annual salaries to more than $300K!
I don’t know what a fair wage rate is for a judge, but pardon me if I don’t feel any sympathy for them. However, whether or not their current pay [...]
The Changing Workplace
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Toronto Star columnist David Crane must be a very risk-averse individual. In his recent column, Mr. Crane discusses many of the positive and negative changes in the Canadian workforce. While many of Mr. Crane’s observations may be true, I disagree with his assessment that some of those changes are necessarily a bad thing.
Some industries are hiring new employees at [...]