Ontario

The Freedom Party of Ontario’s “balanced budget” gimmick

Freedom Party of Ontario leaders Paul McKeever was on Sun News Network on May 29, 2014 to outline his party’s balanced budget plan for Ontario. The guest host was understandably interested in how the Freedom Party of Ontario would purport to do this, since Ontario’s deficit currently sits at $12 billion. Their solution? McKeever explains […]

Ontario Green Party candidate mentions John Turmel’s Argentina Solution

During the June 3 TVO debate on issues facing the 416 (Toronto) ridings in the run-up to the June 12, 2014 Ontario provincial election, Green Party of Ontario candidate for York Centre, Joshua Borenstein, mentioned a modified version of John Turmel’s Argentine Solution (at 30m). John Turmel is the founder of the Paupers Party and […]

Ontario Libertarian Party leader Allen Small interviewed on Sun News Network

In the run-up to the June 12, 2014 Ontario provincial election, Allen Small, Ontario Libertarian Party leader, was interviewed by the Sun News Network on June 4. Once again, the private sector continues to lead in providing alternative voices that the public sector claims to offer, despite Ontario’s public broadcaster, TVO, deciding not to provide […]

Special election campaign interview with James Schulz, Ontario Libertarian Party candidate in Kitchener-Waterloo

As part of my alternative Ontario provincial election coverage, in interviewing the Ontario Libertarian Party candidates in my area of Kitchener-Waterloo, here is my 8-minute interview with OLP candidate for Kitchener-Waterloo, James Schulz. Here are my interviews with Kitchener Centre OLP candidate Patrick Bernier and Kitchener-Conestoga OLP candidate David Schumm. There was an audio issue […]

Special election campaign interview with David Schumm, Ontario Libertarian Party candidate in Kitchener-Conestoga

As part of my alternative Ontario provincial election coverage, in interviewing the Ontario Libertarian Party candidates in my area of Kitchener-Waterloo, here is my 15-minute interview with OLP candidate for Kitchener-Conestoga, David Schumm. For my interview with Kitchener Centre OLP candidate Patrick Bernier, see here.

Should public education cost more per student than the average tax bill?

From the March 29, 2012 news release, Ontario Increases Funding Per Student: “The 2012-13 Grants for Student Needs (GSN) will rise this coming year to $11,189 per student. That is an increase of about $4,000 per student since 2003.“ According to StatsCan, the median Canadian family income in 2013 was $76,000. From the Ernst & […]

Exposing Faux Capitalism: Interview with Allen Small, Ontario Libertarian Party leader, March 20, 2014

On the March 20, 2014 special broadcast of Exposing Faux Capitalism with Jason Erb, I interviewed Ontario Libertarian Party leader, Allen Small. Here is the audio. We discussed the following issues: The upcoming Ontario general election The Ontario Libertarian Party’s plan to run a full slate of candidates in all 107 ridings in the upcoming […]

Canada’s nanny state dim idea to ban 100 and 75-watt incandescent light bulbs on January 1, 2014

I previously wrote about this in my October 25, 2011 article, The dim idea of the United States to ban the sale of incandescent light bulbs by 2012, and Canada by 2014. If power consumption is such an issue, why are governments — especially in Ontario, Canada — excessively subsidizing electricity prices? And if carbon […]