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Slaying inflation with high interest rates is class war. It may make Bay Street happy, but it puts the rest of us in peril

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The Bank of Canada is driven by anti-inflation extremism. It’s the AR-15 method of inflation control.

Posted on July 28, 2022August 23, 2022

Kicking the sickest patients to the curb: Private clinics won’t solve health-care crisis

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Private operators may offer faster access to services for their paying clients, rather than determining access to care based on the urgency of need.

Posted on July 19, 2022August 23, 2022

Punishing a schoolyard bully like Vladimir Putin is crazy when he’s got nuclear weapons

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Many commentators insist we have no choice; we’re already in World War III. But we’re not. The very suggestion downplays the incomprehensible horror.

Posted on June 29, 2022August 23, 2022

Doug Ford blows unique chance to reduce highway gridlock

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With the Highway 407 owners $1 billion in hock to Ontario, surely this was an opening for Premier Ford to win something back for beleaguered commuters.

Posted on May 30, 2022August 23, 2022

Why a bright 5-year-old wouldn’t vote for Doug Ford

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Privatization lies at the heart of the calamity that turned Ontario’s nursing homes into COVID death traps. Ford’s zeal for privatization runs deep.

Posted on May 4, 2022August 23, 2022

Trudeau should lift punishing sanctions that harm vulnerable nations

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Canada, ignoring the plea from the UN’s highest official, continues in the midst of the pandemic to impose […]

Posted on May 6, 2020August 23, 2022

The public lab that could have helped fight COVID-19 pandemic

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Canada once had a publicly owned pharmaceutical company that could have made a difference in the current coronavirus crisis — except that we sold it.

Posted on March 11, 2020April 3, 2020

Stop celebrating capitalism and start celebrating sanitation for saving humanity

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One can understand the desire to be positive, especially at the end of a pretty grim year. Even so, this headline from the usually thoughtful New York Times left me gasping: “This has been the best year ever: for humanity over all, life just keeps getting better.”

Posted on January 15, 2020January 21, 2020

How $15 billion in bonuses leaves bankers gloomy

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There’s silly. There’s absurd. And then there’s this: The country’s six largest banks are dishing out $15 billion in bonuses this year. But, in the eyes of some, this isn’t enough.

Posted on December 18, 2019January 6, 2020

Ontario’s healthcare spending lowest in Canada — but going lower

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It warms the soul to recall the day last June when Doug Ford was heartily booed by the enormous crowd in Nathan Phillips Square celebrating the Raptors — a crowd so big that it even dwarfed the one at Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Posted on November 20, 2019November 27, 2019

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