October 27, 2009
Economic Instability = Ticket to Privatization
What’s the real cost of the global stimulus programs? Everything.
Everything Steve. Part of the time.
What’s the real cost of the global stimulus programs? Everything.
The folks in Ottawa have been dying to figure out an ‘innovative’ way to bail out Canada’s biggest media companies (besides the CBC, of course) without creating a massive voter backlash. With that in mind, another hairbrained scheme has materialized: spending taxpayer money on advertising (story details are pasted below). The absurdity of this plan is laughable for a number of reasons: I normally try […]
Research credit to Impolitical . There’s really nothing worse than the prospect of hard-line anti-government control-freaks taking over anything, let alone Canadian media. But that seems to be in the cards, anyways, doesn’t it? Rumours have swirled for a while about the CBC being cut. As early as last fall, folks identified that more than $200 million would be cut. And they were right. We’re […]
OK … let the petitioning and Facebook pages begin, but nothing’s going to change until we get rid of the Cons. Amid several beefs about this situation is the simple fact that the Cons (with the support of the Liberals) are spending billions of OUR DOLLARS on tax cuts and enriching the upper class, but when they promise to create jobs, this is how they […]
I was going to title this piece "Failure of CanWest = Failure of Conservatives = Failure of Capitalism", but that was too long. And … given that the Cons are still in control of this country, the focus should instead be on the level of ripe corruption that is really annoying me. Before I go on, follow this link, express your ‘regrets’ with this call […]