SHOULD TAX DOLLARS BE USED FOR INFERTILITY TREATMENTS?

One in eight Canadian couples struggles with infertility.  They argue that it is a medical  condition like any other and should be  treated as such.  B ut the province of Ontario up to now has refused to use tax dollars to pay for infertility treaments. 
As a result an Ottawa couple is suing the government for [...]

WAS KENNEDY ONE OF THE GREATEST SENATORS OF ALL TIME?

Some of the comments on the internet about Senator Kennedy’s life  and  death are vicious and unrepeatable.  Surely this is a time to laud his life, not condemn it.  (Leave that to the Almighty).
Is there any doubt that Kennedy developed perhaps the greatest legislative  record of all time in the senate?  Th  ink of his [...]

SHOULD SUNDAYS BE SILENT?

The Quebec city of Granby has passed a law fining people who violate a noise ban aimed a giving neighours a break from fixers, builders etc. on Sundays.  The law aims to silence drills, chain saws and other power tools. The mayor of Granby says residents are fed up withn “neighours home repairs and renovations on what [...]

SHOULD BLOGGERS BE OUTED?

The formerly anonymous blogger who kicked off  a media firestorm by writing a series of derogatory posts about a Canadian fashion model now intends to sue Google for revealing her identity.
The Canadian fshion model, Liskula Cohen, sued Google in January after Google refused to provide her with the identiry of  a “psychotic, lying, whoring skank.”  Cohen [...]

SHOULD CANADA HAVE A FALL ELECTION?

A new poll, just out this morning, shows the Harper government has opened a wide lead over Michael Ignatieff and the Liberals – 39 to 28 per cent.  If an election were held today HaRPER would have a good chance of winning a majority.  There is more trust in Harper’s ability to steer the economy [...]

SHOULD SENATOR KENNEDY GET HIS DYING WISH?

Not long ago, Governors in Massachussets had the power to appoint interim senators resigned or died.  But in 2004 a Democratic-majority legislature amended the law  to prevent Mitt Romney, then the governor, from appointing a fellow Republican if Senator John Kerry were elected president.  Senator Kennedy supported that change.
Senator Kennedy has now written a letter [...]

SHOULD THE LOCKERBIE BOMBER BE FREE?

Only one man – Al-Megrahi – has been convicted iof the Lockerbie bombing which took 270 lives over Scotland in 1988.  He was sentenced to life in prison – a minimum of 27 years.  Yesterday, after serving eight years, he was released on the order of Scotland’s Justice Secretary, Kenny MacASKILL, on c’ompassionate grounds.  Mr. [...]

SHOULD PRO ATHLETES GET A BREAK?

Should wealthy professional athrletes who come a cropper deserve a break?
Take Michael Vick.  After being convicted of animal brutality and doing time in the slammer, Vick has now singed on with the Philadelphia Eagles.  The Eagles head coach, Andy Reid, says “Fotunately in this country  if we handle ourselves properly we are given an aooportunity for [...]

SHOULD TAX MONEY HELP POLITICAL PARTIES?

In the Canadian system political parties receive a subsidy based on the number of votes they received at the last general election. This amounts to many millions on taxpayer dollars.
There are  hints that the Harper government wants to scrap this system.  And indeed an argument can be made that in a time of growing federal [...]

HAS THE SUMMER BEEN A DUD?

Sorry, I have been goofing off for a few days.  This humid heat in the nineties is getting to me.  Yet, here we are almost at the en d of August and it doesn’t seem to me we have had much summer at all.  Rain, rain, rain.  Surely it must be one of the wettest [...]