Category: Editorials

Time to come to grips with our own interests

TORONTO – It is finally here: election day, the day on which a country – the nation state with the greatest potential for good or otherwise, in the world – chooses its Chief Executive Officer. With all due deference to my own country of birth or to the one in which I have raised a family (Italy and Canada), we are talking about the USA. 

Cooperation in the House? The die is cast

TORONTO – The die is cast.

Monday, the Prime Minister told his caucus they are barking up the wrong tree – he is staying. Ditto to the Bloc Quebecois’s “threat” of voting non-confidence in the government. The NDP had already reneged on its blustering threat to back away from its promises of support to Justin Trudeau. The Conservatives’ position is clear: how much longer can the government resist? 

CORRIERE CANADESE / Un sollievo per Justin, però sempre indebitato

TORONTO – Il debito sopra menzionato non è meramente economico, nonostante il calo dei tassi di interesse annunciato (ordinato) dalla Banca del Canada. Si tratta della stessa organizzazione che negli ultimi tre anni ha aumentato il tasso di interesse; l’ala sinistra della società potrebbe definire tale operazione un trasferimento quasi furtivo di ricchezza a un numero sempre minore di persone che potrebbero essere in grado di accedere al leggendario “1%” più alto della società… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Survival: Another day gone and deeper in Debt

TORONTO – The debt referenced above is not merely an economic one, despite the drop in interest rates announced (ordered) by the Bank of Canada. That is the same organization that, over the last three years has been raising the prime rate; the Left wing in society might call that execise a quasi-larceneous transfer of wealth to an ever-shrinking number of people who may be in a position to access the fabled top “1%” of society.