We want taxes? It’s all in the wording

Posted on April 16, 2012 by John Robson

According to the fledgling Broadbent Institute, Canadians are so worried about inequality they want to pay higher taxes. Good luck campaigning on that. Still, I think these Institute guys are on to something.

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F-35 will quickly be outdated

Posted on April 16, 2012 by John Robson

There’s something I’m not buying about the F-35 “stealth” joint-strike fighter. Besides the government’s dishonest bloviating and the opposition’s peacenik whimpering, I mean. I just can’t understand a plane meant to dominate aerial combat for five decades in a world of blinding technological change.

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The Top 5, April 14

Posted on April 16, 2012 by John Robson

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Madely in the morning, April 13

Posted on April 14, 2012 by John Robson

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Food for thought

Posted on April 9, 2012 by John Robson

How about a second helping of hospital food? No, really. They’ll even trim the crusts off the egg salad sandwiches for you. They being the bistro staff at Ottawa’s Queensway Carleton Hospital, not the politicians endlessly praising our health system while doing their utmost to make it horrible.

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