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Canada

Mark Carney – What most people don’t know

The upcoming federal election may be the most important one in decades. Please read this article carefully and share with as many of your contacts as possible. Voters need to know for whom they will be voting.

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Healthcare

How to get the best doctors to practice in Quebec

About 20% of Quebecers do not have a family doctor. Almost 11,000 people are waiting over a year for medically necessary surgeries (including cancer surgeries) and the backlog of elective surgeries is 161,000 which will take years, if not decades to clear. Emergency rooms are as crowded as ever. Ambulances take too long to arrive and the list goes on.

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Travel

The timeless beauty of Africa

I have been lucky enough to have visited Africa three times in the past half century (South Africa in 1969, Tanzania in 2008 and now Botswana last month). The people, politics and cities change but the animals in the vast open spaces are truly timeless.

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Politics

What’s so bad about Donald Trump?

The US Presidential election is about Donald Trump. Judging by his massive rallies where people arrive many hours in advance, his fans love him. Democrats will be voting for Kamala Harris, not because they love her but because they hate Trump.

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Politics

How to end the university encampments

In a Liberal Democracy as we have in Canada and the US, people have the right to protest, to demonstrate, and to say almost anything they want. However, there are limits to all rights.

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Politics

Bill 21 and the Notwithstanding Clause

In 2019, when Bill 21 was introduced in the National Assembly, I got a lot of attention when I said, “The results of Bill 21 will be ethnic cleansing, not with a gun, but with a law.”

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Agglomeration

How to reduce taxes for all Montreal residents

Once more Montrealers are being hit by excessive tax increases and it is even worse for the suburbs whose residents will pay 38% of the Agglomeration tax increases even though they make up only 12% of the island’s population.

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Canada

Canada’s sorriest Prime Minister

In a March, 2018 story BBC asked, “Does Justin Trudeau apologize too much?” At the time he had formally apologized on behalf of the Canadian government more times than any previous Prime Minister. But he was only just getting started.

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