CBC News Indepth: Provincial Budgets

The ultimate report card - McQuinty has not balanced the budget in fact has the dubvious distinction of a deficit of 5.4 billion greater then all other combined provices that have a deficit spending challenge. What a dubvious leadership position ,Ontario has fallen into. PR
CBC News Indepth: Provincial Budgets

Sympatico/MSN News - CBC.ca

We need a option to what is -Is it Harper ?Let's see if he can keep his word and hold the conservative party together. PRSympatico/MSN News - CBC.ca

Canadians have never seen a government dither so much and do so little,"
"Thou shalt not steal" The liberal challenge

The Digital Hospital

The Digital Hospital: "The Digital Hospital
How info tech saves lives and money at one medical center. Is this the future of health care? "

Tory wins

Lets see if accountability goes up with Tory - Ontario needs a break. PRHamilton: "'You have said, and I will join in you saying, that a premier who doesn't keep his word is a premier who shouldn't keep his job,' Tory said, an obvious swipe at McGuinty's Liberals, who have broken several campaign promises. "

the worst turn down I ever got

Match.com: Love is complicated, match is simple.

Northern Tiger Recipes from the Frontier Centre

The premier think tank in Manitoba -the Frontier Centre- has a receipe for success -enjoy -for all who think there is room for improvement in existing government services at all levels- This is a good link for improvement ideas . PR

FCPP Publications :: Northern Tiger Recipes: "The lesson for the federal Liberals and, closer to home, our own Government, is to forget yesterday's obsession with alternately redistributing and subsidizing a slowly growing economic pie. An intelligent pruning and restructuring of public spending to hold increases slightly below the economic growth rate, with the growth dividend applied to lower taxes, mean more government revenues in the medium and long term. To maximize growth, we need to reduce public spending in Canada from 41% to 30% of the economy, a level similar to that in the much admired Celtic model (and, not coincidentally, the U.S.)"

Contestability is the key to high performance government

Competition for better services -what a novel idea.
AIMS : AIMS Library: AIMS Library

Municipalities provide a range of expensive services often without knowing whether they are receiving full, efficient value for the public money they spend. Yet, at a time when municipal governments are struggling to make ends meet and to provide acceptable levels of services, the status quo in services provision is no longer an option. Municipal governments need to ascertain whether the cost of a service is justified, and then seek to provide that service at the most efficient price.

One way of providing services more efficiently and at lower cost would be to make them "contestable" - that is, to open up the bidding on services contracts to all interested providers, whether public, private, or a combination of the two.

Was justice served?

Twenty years ,over 100 million dollars spent, with 500 police people working on the Air India tragedy -the result not quilty. We need a public inquery. PR
News | canada.com network: "Families search for answers"

Help McGuinty -use your refund to pay down the debt?

Winnipeg Sun: NEWS - Ad exec defends charge

This arrogance is truly disgusting under the officially induced error or officially induced fraud category. How many of these unethical people are feeding at the public trough now? PR

Winnipeg Sun: NEWS - Ad exec defends charge: "MONTREAL -- An Ottawa ad exec strongly defended billing taxpayers almost $11,000 for the use of a generator by a Quebec village devastated by the 1998 ice storm. The generator was offered for free by the Bluenose II Preservation Trust which had mothballed it after a 1997 sponsorship-funded travelling museum of the famous schooner. "

Winnipeg Sun Editorial: Black hole of Kyoto

Have we learned nothing from the gun registry? Another expensive nobel experiment at public expense- and you wonder why the care system does not work.PRCanadians should be deeply alarmed at the new $10-billion cost figure, which is double the last estimate. As we know only too well, the actual cost will likely wind up many times higher. We also have no idea how many jobs this ill-fated scheme will cost.

Winnipeg Sun Editorial: Black hole of Kyoto: "Canadians should be deeply alarmed at the new $10-billion cost figure, which is double the last estimate.
As we know only too well, the actual cost will likely wind up many times higher.
We also have no idea how many jobs this ill-fated scheme will cost. "

National Post

National Post: "PET scanners stand idle
Hospitals cannot afford to run highly sought machines

Heather Sokoloff
National Post"

No more federal cash for Ont.: Volpe

Interesting -here is a novel thought why not get more service from the tax money you already have by allowing competition and competitive services- Mr McGuinty? PR

Hamilton: "No more federal cash for Ont.: Volpe"

Plan now or face crisis, city warned - Brantford Expositor

Be proactive -all taxpayers should respond with suggestions PROsprey Media Group Inc. - Brantford Expositor: "Plan now or face crisis, city warned

By Michael-Allan Marion, expositor staff
Local News - Wednesday, March 16, 2005 @ 01:00

With more responsibilities and not enough tax revenue, city hall is headed for financial crisis unless council comes up with a comprehensive strategic plan that sets priorities and establishes cost-effective programs and services. "

Winnipeg Sun Editorial: Great expectations

Lets see if real choices are forthcoming with a viable and honest platform
Let's be optimistic and open and avoid the "Canadian Duck" label. PR

Winnipeg Sun Editorial: Great expectations: "The Conservatives will have a chance this week to show Canadians they are made of better stuff than Prime Minister Dithers and his regime of misplaced priorities. "

The Conservatives will have a chance this week to show Canadians they are made of better stuff than Prime Minister Dithers and his regime of misplaced priorities.

National Post

A lot of people do not think that the government is doing a good job and are protecting their hard earned money outside of Canada- Hmm- if they can make ireland a mecca -why not Canada? PR

National Post: "$88B flees Canada: Taxes blamed as investment in offshore havens soars"

More than one-fifth of all Canadian direct investment abroad in 2003, or more than 20 cents of every dollar, went into offshore financial centres, double the proportion 13 years earlier, the report said.

Winnipeg Sun: NEWS - Was ticket tip point?

So what really happened in the fatal misadventure of our four brave Mounties? Shocking and sad PA

Most startling of all is the killings may have been sparked by a simple traffic ticket.

Winnipeg Sun: NEWS - Was ticket tip point?

Court reform

Interesting Businee week article on how to fix the Court system -PR
How to Fix The Tort System

Link: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_11/b3924601.htm?campaign_id=nws_insdr_mar4&link_position=link1

Did the Liberals redraw Greenbelt boundries for their friends?

Hamilton: "TORONTO (CP) -- In an unrelenting attack on the Liberals' integrity Thursday, the Conservatives raised questions about whether development interests related to the finance minister had received favourable treatment. "

Rural protest planned for Wednesday at Queen's Park Osprey Media Group Inc. - Brantford Expositor

Osprey Media Group Inc. - Brantford Expositor



Rural protest planned for Wednesday at Queen's Park

By John Paul Zronik, expositor staff
Local News - Friday, March 04, 2005 @ 01:00

Ontario farmers aren’t letting the provincial government off the hook.

The Lanark Landowners Association, based in eastern Ontario, is planning to follow this week’s protest at Queen's Park by the Ontario Federation of Agriculture with one Wednesday.

“The lambs were in to Queen’s Park yesterday, the lions will be there next week,” association president Randy Hillier said in a telephone interview Thursday.