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Showing posts with label ontario election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ontario election. Show all posts

Sunday, June 10, 2018

Some of my tweets June 6 - 10










































Saturday, March 3, 2018

Some tweets of mine from Feb 26 - Mar 2













































Friday, June 13, 2014

All is not lost ....


now we can look to see how this pans out.  At least it's something to look forward to.

Josh Visser and Natalie Alcoba writing at NationalPost:
....After Ontario election, Doug Ford says he wants to give Progressive Conservative party an ‘enema’
After Thursday night’s poor showing at the ballot box, Toronto Councillor Doug Ford says he wants to give the Progressive Conservatives an anatomically unlikely “enema, top to bottom.”

The linguistically colourful brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will not rule out a run for the leadership of the PC party as Tim Hudak is stepping down after last night’s disastrous results.

“The door is always open in politics,” Doug Ford told reporters Friday at City Hall.
“If I was leader, there’d be a drastic change in the PC party, from top to bottom,” he said. “From the president of the PC association, all the way down. We’d get some real people in there.”.........

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Ontario Elections Day ... June 12


Gotta hold my nose and go vote.  If I don't ... how can I justify to myself that I have a right and a duty to constantly criticize the politicians?










Thursday, May 29, 2014

Canada's #1 cheats and liars .... The Liberals


They always put the Conservative party in second place when it comes to lying and cheating with a straight face.  

Wish Andrea Horwath was not of the NDP .... I definitely like her. If we had leaders of her calibre, Canada would never meddle in the politics of other countries nor would we ever go prancing into illegal and unnecessary wars.  

Guess, will have to hold my nose and vote for the conniving Cons one more time. Wish I could get over my loyalty to the blasted Cons once and for all. They are no better than the Libs, but  it  takes time to fully disengage..... although, of late, Harper and Baird have been helping many Conservative voters run to the arms of one of the other two parties.  



From CBCNews:
....PCs say Wynne hid $317M bailout of MaRS developer
NDP claims Liberals hired consultant to create fake Twitter accounts for transit plan.

Ontario Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne spent Thursday morning fending off attacks and allegations from her two main opponents.

The day began with the Progressive Conservatives releasing government documents they say show the Liberals secretly approved a $317-million bailout of a downtown Toronto real estate development.

The Liberals gave $71 million to build a second tower at the MaRS research complex near Queen's Park and provided a $234-million loan for the project, but the documents show the registered charity and the real estate developer behind it can't repay the money.

Former Tory MPP Frank Klees says a whistleblower turned over the cabinet documents. Klees and party leader Tim Hudak accused Wynne of approving the bailout behind closed doors to avoid embarrassment during the election campaign.

NDP campaign co-chair Gilles Bisson said in a statement that the NDP has written to the auditor general requesting he look into the incident.

Klees says the Liberals also failed to put the liability on the books in the May 1 budget. The opposition parties refused to support the budget, triggering Wynne to call the June 12 election.

The Tories say the government should take the hit on the books but let MaRS suffer the consequences of bankruptcy from a bad real estate deal........

Monday, May 26, 2014

Pro-lifer candidate running in the Trinity-Spadina district


Our wonderful government has jailed Pro-lifer Linda Gibbons for many more months than her age.  She is 66 years old and has spent almost a decade of that life, in and out of jail, because of her activism. 

However, Gibbons is somewhat of a politically correct person because when she says
 “People are having to work longer because our population is declining, not only because of a low birthrate but also because it is being wiped out — 1 in 4 babies — by abortion.”
she is not speaking the factual truth of the matter. I bet she knows that Canada is importing more and more immigrants from Muslim countries because they churn out babies every 10 months and never think of aborting them. Our population grows more because of Muslim immigrants than because of immigrants from China and India, but what will it do to the country?  Nobody wants to venture even an inch into that debate. Especially our lovable politicians.

Peter Baklinski writing at LifeSiteNews:
....Frequently arrested pro-lifer Linda Gibbons to run as candidate in federal by-election .... A 66-year-old grandmother who has served about a decade of jail time for repeatedly ignoring abortion clinic “bubble zone” ordinances in her commitment to reach out to abortion-bound women has decided to try her hand again at politics in the upcoming federal by-election in Ontario.

Linda Gibbons will in run in the June 30 by-election as a first-time candidate in the Christian Heritage Party in the Trinity-Spadina electoral district. The seat became vacant in March after NDP MP Olivia Chow resigned from her seat to run for the city’s mayoral election.

“I really think Christians should have a voice in politics,” she told LifeSiteNews

Gibbons said that Christians today are being told that their faith is not relevant in the public square and they are even being muzzled for their beliefs. The Christian Heritage Party exists to provide “true Christian leadership to this nation.”

“I think Christian values have a lot to offer,” she said.

Gibbons said her election campaign will be earmarked by “protecting and defending life.”

“This is a critical issue for Canada that has many spinoffs,” she said, bringing up the example of the economy. “People are having to work longer because our population is declining, not only because of a low birthrate but also because it is being wiped out — 1 in 4 babies — by abortion.”

“I think our children are a great treasure, and I think being pregnant is a privilege. Life and liberty go together,” she said......

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Ontario's debt more than California's


Yeah ... better believe it!  The Liberals have screwed us good and proper.

Robert P. Murphy writing at MisesCanada:
 .....Inasmuch as readers of this blog  typically follow developments in both the United States and Canada, I thought it might be instructive to share the main results of a new study I co-authored for the Fraser Institute (a free-market CA vs ON debtCanadian economic policy think tank). Specifically, the study compares the government debt loads of the province of Ontario versus the state of California. Readers may be surprised to learn–I know I was!–that on any metric we choose, Ontario’s debt is much higher. This is ironic, because for many Canadians (as well as people in the United States) California epitomizes a big-spending “liberal” government.

As the graphic illustrates, total gross bonded debt is $144.8 billion in California, compared to a whopping $267.5 billion for Ontario. (These data refer to Fiscal Year 2011/12, the latest for which California’s numbers were available on some of the criteria.) Yet since Ontario is so much smaller than California, the simple total understates the discrepancy. In terms of the economy (state and provincial), California’s debt is 7.6%, while Ontario’s is 40.9%. Another way of gauging the burden is that California’s state government devotes about 3% of its revenues to servicing the debt, while Ontario’s provincial government must devote more than triple that............

Thursday, February 13, 2014

It's time to break the Beer monopoly in Ontario


Lo and behold there's a commonsense  journalist or two at the commie Star. Surprising, isn't it?  
I am not a beer drinker unless it's a shandy ... but the difference in the prices between Canada and our neighbour down south, gives rise to a feel of being cheated by either the govt. or the powers-that-be.  
The vid below is from 2008. 

Martin Regg Cohn writing at TorontoStar:
....The Beer Store is Ontario’s longest-running public disgrace and economic blight.
For decades, this multi-billion-dollar monopoly has defied the laws of economics and subverted the provincial interest, with scandalous collusion by politicians from all three parties in power.
Yes, it’s Christmas — a time when The Beer Store leaves a bitter taste across the province. People grudgingly, trudgingly line up at its fusty, dilapidated outlets to see their beer money swallowed up and siphoned abroad by a clique of major multinationals.
Bad enough that most of The Beer Store’s 400-plus outlets feel like Stalinist relics from former East bloc economies: Grimy entrances and utilitarian interiors that could’ve been designed by Communist apparatchiks for the beer-swilling lumpenproletariat.

Yes, it looks, smells and feels like a caricature of a government-run monopoly. But, unbeknownst to most Ontarians, the bizarre truth is that The Beer Store is a privately owned cartel-cum-monopoly owned and controlled by three of the world’s biggest foreign brewers: Anheuser-Busch Inbev, Molson Coors and Sapporo.
From their headquarters in Belgium, Brazil, the U.S. and Japan, they control 80 per cent of Ontario beer sales (the remaining 20 per cent is held by the LCBO, which stocks primarily six-packs of foreign and craft beers in its regular stores).
Luckily for The Beer Store, its foreign ownership remains the province’s best-kept secret — a gift that keeps on giving away our money: A pre-Christmas poll by Angus Reid reveals that only 13 per cent of Ontarians realize The Beer Store is controlled by foreign multinationals..........

.........In year-end interviews, all three major party leaders were asked if they would revoke that monopoly status to allow competition.
Premier Kathleen Wynne ruled it out: “I think we’ve got a good system of distribution at the moment,” she told me with a straight face.
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath wouldn’t bite — or raise a glass — saying the issue isn’t a priority for her.
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak was the only politician willing to admit the status quo makes no sense. His party is promising to give beer drinkers more options.
“Do I think that we should have more choice in the system? Sure.” But Hudak declined to make a commitment, saying he’s “saving some things up” for an election.........

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The totally corrupt and the grossly inefficient Liberal govt. of Ontario ...


Scandal upon scandal plague the Ontario Liberals and yet shamelessly they continue on to the next scandal without so much as by your leave.  

Worst of all, the opposition, the PC party is full of dead people. But saying that would be like insulting  zombies who would have done a  much better job at hounding the Liberals out of Ontario.  Sadly, the PC party is simply not up to doing the needful.

The Liberals  hold on to their power in Ontario only because of the Labor Unions whom they have pampered every which way and these organizations prop them up.  The non-Canadian companies are opting to close shop and move out because they can't afford the demands from the Labor Unions and the govt. of Ontario will not help those companies to get the blackmailers off their backs. Ultimately, its the citizens of Ontario who are the losers but being the full-blown masochists that Liberal voters usually are,  they welcome the constant flaying they get and beg for more.

Adrian Morrow writing at Globe&Mail:
Wynne responds to Auditor-General's  tough report on Ontario Power.  

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is pledging to rein in Ontario Power Generation after an audit revealed that the agency was hiring more executives and paying them big bonuses when it was supposed to be downsizing.
The government will table legislation early next year to give it direct control over salaries, benefits and other perks at OPG, she said.
“I’m deeply concerned about what seems to be the culture in that organization,” she told reporters Wednesday at Queen’s Park. “We have a need for the government to have more control over compensation packages and we will be introducing legislation in order to put those controls in place.”

The province has already fired three top OPG executives – the chief financial officer and two vice-presidents – in the wake of the damning audit.

Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk revealed Tuesday that OPG’s executive suite had ballooned in recent years and that the majority of those new bosses received top bonuses. Meanwhile, OPG was shedding jobs in the lower ranks and denying top bonuses to regular employees.

Ms. Lysyk also took aim at the Crown corporation’s generous pension plan – the vast majority of which is funded by taxpayers – and the fact that OPG appeared to be hiring its employees’ family members without any evidence that it had followed correct procedures.......

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Ontario lefties are trying their slimy tricks yet again ...


what else is new?!

And, as for David Akin ...   news flash dear Mr Akin:  Torontonians are not embarrassed with stuff being said by Rob Ford ... however, we are disgusted with the stuff that's said about him by others.  



Friday, November 15, 2013

The unelected lesbian premier of the province where a popular mayor cracks everybody up, wants to dethrone the rightfully elected mayor of Toronto


The stories in wild, wild, wild Toronto keep getting better and better.   

Besides smoking crack, getting blissfully drunk and committing a variety of other exotic sins,  Rob Ford has single-handedly put Toronto prominently on the world map. More importantly,  the citizens of the country south of us, now know more about  the Mayor of Toronto, including his name,  than they do about their own.  

What has the unelected premier of Ontario done?

As Sue-Ann Levy of the TorontoSun says: 
"her government is running on empty on the road to nowhere  — undisciplined, out of gas, out of steam, out of creative ideas and focussed only on winning another election judging from this ad and the many ways they’re trying to appease their “stakeholders” with cash gifts.....

So,  imagine a failed unelected premier of a failed Ontario Liberal govt. has the gall to: 

Robert Benzie writing at TorontoStar:
....Premier Kathleen Wynne has had enough of Rob Ford’s “truly disturbing” behaviour and is prepared to give Toronto city councillors “new tools” to deal with the defiant mayor.
Fed up with Ford, an admitted crack cocaine user who is under police investigation for his links to an accused drug dealer, Wynne took the extraordinary step Thursday of threatening to intervene.
The premier said she was willing to empower city council to sideline the mayor, with two key conditions.
Councillors, who meet Friday to discuss Ford’s fate, would have to formally request such action — and Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath would have to endorse any legislative changes......

We need a Zorro in Ontario.  Not to go after Rob Ford but to go after his critics.   Paging Zorro .... please come in Zorro, where are you Zorro?  Come in Zorro, the Liberals are killing us.  HELP!



Thursday, August 1, 2013

Play: Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell

Forget the  Ontario elections and enjoy this great play.  As for the election results, they  will show that Ontario has become a province full of people who have become addicted to sucking on the govt's tits.

As long as Doug Holyday wins the Etobicoke riding,  I am happy.  He is far ahead as I write this.

The great Peter O'Toole acts in this play and that's all that anybody needs to know.
Had no idea who Jeffrey Bernard  was until now.



Mayor Rob Ford: Voting Liberal is akin to giving a bank robber another gun

A politician who says it like it is .... that's our  Mayor Rob Ford!  You gotta admire our mayor for being the only politician in the country who tells the truth ... almost all the time.  If  that's not a big, big PLUS, tell me what is.   And, where Ontario Liberals are concerned,  he's bang on target.  The party is corrupt to the core. So very corrupt that I can't even bring myself to write about their deluge of  deliberate misdeeds because even the thought  makes me break out in a sweat of utmost anger.  I can't understand how people who know what the Liberals have done to Ontario can  be ignorant enough to still vote for these corrupt degenerates of the very worst stripe.

Andy Radia writing at Canada Politics-Yahoo:
....There's an unwritten rule in politics that,  despite differences in ideologies, you don't slam other levels of government.
After all, conventional wisdom suggests that to work well with these people, you need to have good relationships with them.
But no one ever accused Toronto Mayor Rob Ford of being conventional.
On Tuesday, while campaigning on behalf Scarborough Progressive Conservative candidate Ken Kirupa — ahead of five provincial byelections on Thursday — Ford called Kathleen Wynne's Liberals a "corrupt government."
"If you say you want to go and vote Liberal, then you’re basically just giving a bank robber another gun and say[ing] go rob another bank," he said according to the National Post.
"That’s what it comes down to."
Not surprisingly, according to the Toronto Star, the Liberals weren't very pleased with Ford's comments.............

Monday, October 15, 2012

Dalton McGuinty steps down, but not soon enough .... harm done to children's innocence is irreparable


The question now is: When can we see the last of  Laura Broten, Minister of Education?   And, will the PC platform save Ontarians or will we be at the mercy of yet another Liberal premier?

When the shit is too deep to wade through, McGuinty the destroyer resigns.   When his own people demand that what they are getting from him is not enough and want much, much more, he calls it quits.   I feel sorry for  the person who takes over the mess McGuinty has created during his long tenure.

IMO, the reign of Dalton McGuinty  has been the biggest blow that Ontario's education system has been ever dealt and it will take a long time before the entire school system is completely revamped and totally deloused from the depravity that the Liberals let loose into the young malleable minds of our children.  His  insistence that sex education, and sex education of the most depraved kind,  be taught to kids will not ever be forgotten.  This premier will be forever known by many of us as Dalton "teach children oral sex" McGuinty.

Moreover, his Ministry of Education throwing open cafeterias to segregated prayer services where imams sermonized to Muslim youth, with boys in the front rows, then far behind them, the female students and far, far, far behind those female students, the female students who were menstruating .... will never be forgotten  nor easily  forgiven.  

His other sins,  and there have been plenty     .... pales in comparison to the harm his crazy liberal values  have done to school-going children.


From CBC news:
....Ontario Premier Dalton  McGuinty      has announced a surprise end to his tenure as Liberal leader, saying that it is time for his party to put a new leader at its helm.

The premier called an emergency caucus meeting Monday night to announce that he was stepping down.

"After 16 years as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party and after nine years as premier, it’s time for renewal, it’s time for the next Liberal premier," McGuinty said"It’s time for the next set of Liberal ideas to guide our province forward."

McGuinty, 57, has served as Ontario premier since 2003 and has led the Liberals since 1996......



......Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak thanked McGuinty for his years of public service, but was critical of the Liberal leader’s choice to prorogue the legislature.

"Given the scope of the challenges that our province of Ontario faces, now is not the time to close down the legislature and to walk away," Hudak said, calling on McGuinty to “reconsider” the measure.

"We just can’t simply close the doors and lock them up at this crucial point in our history."

McGuinty has asked the Ontario Liberal Party to call a leadership convention "at the earliest possible opportunity," though he will stay on as premier until the party chooses a new leader...........


Sunday, August 26, 2012

Look everybody... Tim Hudak is recovering from the laryngitis ...


which plagues  him every now and then.  This recovery might be short-lived.  You can expect this terrible malaise to hit him again come the next Ontario election for the premiership.

An Open Letter to the People of Ontario

Friends, 
Ontario can and will do better. We have tremendous strengths we can build on to reach our true potential. Like you, I want to see our province again become the kind of place that affords our children a bright future. The kind of place that first attracted my immigrant Slovak grandparents for its freedom and opportunity. 
But right now, we are headed in the wrong direction.

Nine years of reckless overspending have left us in a deep financial hole. Our credit rating has been downgraded, we've lost too many good-paying jobs, and Ontario has become a "have-not" province. 
Today we're saddled with a debt that is on course to tripling. The Liberal government's policies haven't helped Ontario. They're making things worse: Nearly 600,000 people woke up today with no job to go to. Taxes are higher, again. Energy has become unaffordable. Scandals at e-Health and the Ornge air ambulance have wasted billions. A $190 million bill to cancel the Mississauga gas plant, to save a Liberal seat, was handed to taxpayers.

And there's no plan to fix any of it.

The result of all this reckless spending is that the things we care about are now at risk - things like quality health care, excellence in education, and dependable roads, highways and bridges.

Ontario is at a tipping point. We need urgent action. The Ontario PC Party alone has a plan to swiftly deal with this government's reckless overspending and kick-start private sector job growth.

We are the only Party that can keep the Liberals from taking us further down the wrong path, with bold new ideas for balancing our budget, freezing public sector wages, reducing business taxes, making energy more affordable and creating more skilled trades jobs, to name just a few.

The McGuinty Liberals need to be sent a clear message: The people of Ontario say it's time to stop overspending and focus on job creation.

Thank you. 
Sincerely, 
Tim Hudak, MPP
Leader, the PC Party of Ontario

Monday, June 4, 2012

Dalton "Ornges & Lemons" McGuinty

Lemons mostly.  Just thinking of this guy uses up my entire quota of  the allocated daily venom.   I am depleted, defanged and deflated already.... and it's still only midday.

The Ontario government investigated 26 deaths involving its troubled air ambulance service over the past six years, secret government documents show.

The deaths were related to 145 incidents involving Ornge since 2007 that were investigated by the Ministry of Health, according to the confidential papers obtained by the Progressive Conservatives.

They included delays in dispatching air ambulances, paramedics unable to perform CPR due to cramped conditions in the helicopters, staff shortages and paramedics running out of supplies like oxygen and medication.

Chief coroner Andrew McCallum said Friday that his office has investigated all of the Ornge cases brought to its attention, and some investigations are still ongoing.

"Of our completed investigations, there have been no cases in which issues with air ambulance transportation materially affected the course of the patient's illness or injury," McCallum said.

One investigation of a car crash in the London area on July 17, 2011, noted that Ornge didn't respond to the call -- even though there was an aircraft available in Toronto -- because its dispatch centre was waiting to see "if the patient was hurt enough." One person died and the coroner was notified.

Forty of the incidents -- five of which involved the death of a patient -- were opened this year, after the government installed new leadership at Ornge.......

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Rex Murphy and Charles Adler ...

on the tragedy of the Ontario election.... yes, it all boils down to  .... TIM HUDAK

What Rex Murphy says: The Ontario Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties just put on quite possibly the most boring election campaign in the history of the genre. To follow it with any extended attention was to risk floating into some limbo of unmixed tedium and insensibility. I’ve watched grey fogs crawl silently into the St. John’s Narrows and seen more colour and dynamism.

The message of Thursday night was not Dalton McGuinty’s reduced majority, or the Tory’s seat gain. It was the abysmal turnout. It was the lowest ever. This was not, as has been too easily suggested, an appalling lapse into apathy by the Ontario electorate, a refusal by many to execute their electoral responsibilities. It was the voters’ mirror response to the tepid, bland, calculatedly controversy avoiding campaigns of the Liberals and the Tories........

What Charles Adler says:


vid via: BCF

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Pass the word around please....

My apologies if someone else at this aggregrate has already posted this. I just saw the newsletter from Tim Hudak's office and am doing my part to spread the word around. The new leader of the Ontario PC Party says: Have You Joined The Fight Against The DST? Since Dalton McGuinty announced his plans to add an 8% tax hike on dozens and dozens of items through the "Dalton Sales Tax", Tim has been leading the charge to inform Ontario taxpayers about the negative impact the DST will have on farmers, renters and drivers, among others. Petition to stop Dalton's sales tax. Ontario businesses will suffer if Dalton succeeds. The petition is also on FaceBook. petition here for your signing Additionally from the newsletter: On Monday, Tim Hudak announced the appointment of his shadow cabinet to hold the Dalton McGuinty government to account in the key areas of job creation and economic renewal. “We need a government that gets the fundamentals right and lays the foundation for private sector job creation to bring jobs back to this province”, Tim said. “With so many of our energetic and talented MPPs focusing on jobs and the economy, we will be able to hold this government to account.” Tim also named a strong team of Caucus Officers and additional Critics. Key among those appointments includes Christine Elliott (MPP Whitby-Oshawa) as Deputy Leader of the PC Caucus and critic for Health and Long-Term Care. Veteran Bob Runciman (MPP Leeds-Grenville) will be House Leader for the Official Opposition. Norm Miller (MPP Parry Sound-Muskoka) will take on an important job as the new Finance Critic.