Our modern world has amazing sights that even the most visionary thinkers could not imagine a mere century ago. In contrast, there still exist places with buildings and monuments that are hundreds of years old and demonstrate craftmanship and artistry that you could never recreate today.
So the Federal government will give more of our tax dollars to the provinces for health care but not as much as the provinces wanted. What else is new? This has been happening at regular intervals for the last several decades and the result has been a steady erosion of health care in Canada.
Why is Bill 21 so bad?
The law bans people in various positions of authority in the Quebec civil service from wearing religious symbols. It applies to judges, prosecutors, teachers, prison guards, police officers, government inspectors and others.
In my last article, Boring Investment Tips that Work, I provided ideas that will help you make money investing. This time I turn to gambling and a valuable lesson which also relates to investing.
Ever wonder why so many smart, successful business people and professionals get scammed by the likes of Bernie Madoff, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling (Enron), Bernard Ebbers (WorldCom) and the most recent Sam Bankman-Fried (Crypto currency)? In this article I will cover several sound investment ideas which you may already know and yet, countless investors lose significant amounts of money because they do not follow one or more of them.
Cochlear Implant surgery finally comes to Montreal “Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.” –Hellen Keller While I was never totally deaf,
Are Federal politicians stupid, ignorant, or just pandering to Quebec? Perhaps it is all of the above. Bill C-13 is the revision of the Official Languages Act
The Hampstead Council is still planning to destroy the look of Old Hampstead Back in April, the council passed the first draft of a by-law
In 1982, Canada patriated our Constitution from Britain and added the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the Charter). This was Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s crowning achievement. Regretfully, to get the buy-in of all provinces other than Quebec, he had to agree to Section 33 – the Notwithstanding Clause. The Premiers were worried that the courts would have too much power over the elected representatives without such a clause. The clause, if invoked, had to be renewed every five years and I am sure Trudeau never imagined that it would be used. After all, who in a democratic society would want to override basic human rights such as freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom from discrimination and so on.
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