Let Me Eat What I Want – Letter to the Editor
In response to this: It seems that experts in certain fields – such as the Canadian Medical Association – cannot resist the temptation to attempt to exert power beyond their field. Medical experts are...
View ArticlePeople Taking Transit Not Only Ones Providing Subsidy – Letter to the Editor
In response to this: Rob Maxwell states that as someone who “usually walks, cycles, or takes transit” he “resent[s] having to subsidize the ‘free’ parking for those who choose to drive”. Does he not...
View ArticleNot Another Dime for the Public Sector – Letter to the Editor
In response to this: The reason that unions exist is to collectively bargain on behalf of their members, but this only works when both parties have equal and opposite incentives. Management in the...
View ArticleNo Mob Rule – Letter to the Editor
In response to this: People crying for “proportional representation” ought to consider their premises. Why is 51% the magic number? Why is gaining control of the country with the vote of 51 out of...
View ArticleTax Everything Equally – Letter to the Editor
In response to this (and some pent up angst about collectivism in general): The question “[w]hat do we want our city to look like?” demonstrates a common fallacy and blight upon politics: That “the...
View ArticleViolence is not a Solution – Letter to the Editor
In response to this: Every controversial event is followed by cries of “there ought to be a law!” I imagine the people crying out do not consider the implications thereof: If someone went...
View ArticleTax Deductions Defy Equality and Fairness – Letter to the Editor
In response to this: It is nonsensical to oppose “legislatures […] buy[ing] votes with other provinces’ money”, and yet advocate “tax recognition for the costs of raising children”. They are the same...
View ArticleHigher Unemployment or Higher Prices? – Letter to the Editor
The minimum wage here in B.C. recently jumped from the lowest in Canada to the highest ($10.25). I sent a letter to the editor to honour the occasion: Today the minimum wage in B.C. rose to $10.25....
View Article“May Day” Shameful – Letter to the Editor
Walking from the office to the parkade, I walked through Centennial Square and was disgusted by the communists out in force. Got home and wrote/sent this: Today – May 1st – is “International Workers...
View ArticleHarper Right to Stem the Flow of Handouts – Letter to the Editor
In response to this: The writer comments that Harper’s government has “offended financially vulnerable Canadians of all ages”, but how has he done this? By no longer giving them that which they do not...
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