Klaus Rohrich

David Miller could go one better

Toronto Mayor David Miller wants to take all guns away from legal gun owners within the City of Toronto, close down all sports and target shooting clubs and thereby eliminate gun crime within his city. It’s a nice thought, but it won’t happen because EVERYONE (except the mayor) knows that the guns used in the commission of violent crimes in Toronto mostly do not originate with legal gun owners.

The price of oil is what it should be

It never ceases to amaze me the level of ignorance displayed by people who believe that big oil companies are profiting at the expense of society. I was listening to a talk radio program last week that discussed the current exorbitant gasoline prices and sought opinions from listeners about how to deal with that problem.

Federal Liberals establish new suicide cult

Stephane Dion has promised that if he is elected prime minister of Canada we will all be paying more for gasoline, natural gas and home heating oil. His brilliant new strategy hopes to capture the votes of those Canadians who don’t think that current energy prices are high enough and that what this country really needs is higher taxes.

Dreaming up new rights

The recent controversy over Canada’s refusal to recognize the “Right to Food”, which is another of those dubious “rights” dreamed up by the UN is illustrative of how most of the world views the West as a fat cow willing to be milked to death. I’m all in favor of human rights, but it seems that every week the UN appears to magically discover some new, previously unknown human right, while simultaneously forgetting about some human rights it believes to be obsolete.

A bureaucrat, not a soldier

Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian army general who presided over the UN’s disastrous mission in Rwanda that resulted in the murder of some 800,000 innocents, has once again shown his true calling.

Making sure everyone suffers a uniform level of misery

Leave it up to left-wing consumer advocacy groups to ensure that everyone in Canada is equally miserable. The most recent example of this is the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), which is complaining to the Canadian Transportation Agency that Air Canada’s ‘On My Way’ program is discriminatory.

Afrocentric schools- an exercise in self-marginalization

Systemic. It’s a word that’s often used in conjunction with other words to give those words more punch, as in “systemic racism” or “systemic sexism” or “systemic discrimination”.

Treating symptoms—and feeding the disease

Anyone interested in a microcosmic view of the state of healthcare in Canada can get a fairly good perspective by visiting Brockville General Hospital (BGH) in eastern Ontario. It isn’t the kind of place that one would go to if one were seeking medical treatment, but it would make a great case study in the intricacies of bureaucracy for anyone working on an MBA. According to local sources, BGH recently received some $68 million in capital funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and has begun an ambitious program of renovations designed to make the facility state-of-the-art. The first round of renovations started with the closing off of a number of the hospital’s patient wings and a complete renovation of the entrance and the business offices.

Show me your friends…

Well, he’s finally gone and done it. Barack Obama has thrown the right Rev. Jeremiah Wright off the planet, supposedly because the Rev. Wright made some um, rash statements.

The TTC strike:  it’s all David Miller’s fault

The poet Robert Burns had a catchy saying: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” Toronto Mayor David Miller must be thinking about Robbie Burns right about now, as the scheme he so meticulously devised appears to have been derailed by the TTC’s union workers who rejected a sweetheart contract of a 9% increase over 3 years and promptly walked off the job.

The wacky world of environmentalism

It’s usually in the spring of the year that we take a good look at our lawns to see how they’ve weathered this past brutal winter. Walking along the grassy tract outside of my home I noticed large areas of lawn that consisted only of weeds and bare earth.

Revenge of the bean counters

Last week history was made when the RCMP executed a search warrant on the national offices of the Conservative Party of Canada. Acting on an affidavit sworn by Canada’s election commissioner, the Mounties removed a number of boxes of documents as well as computers from the Party’s headquarters.

From the start the fix was in

Anyone who believes that there was ever a chance of the Toronto Transit Commission’s employees going on strike is in serious need of therapy. From the day that contract negotiations began the outcome was never in doubt as the clever social engineers at Toronto City Hall had choreographed each and every step.

The myth of a vibrant multi-culture

When Pierre Eliot Trudeau first started musing about the advantages of multiculturalism, it was seen in terms of that Coke commercial of some two decades ago wherein young people of all races joined hands around the world and sang, “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony...” While that was an attractive and effective image in a commercial hyping soft drinks, it didn’t quite materialize in those terms in Canadian society.

Wide open immigration a really bad mistake

Currently there appear to be two opposing views on immigration to Canada. There’s the view of individuals like Liberal leader Stephane Dion and NDP MP Olivia Chow, who believe that Canada’s doors should be wide open to anyone at any time under any circumstances.

The blind leading the blind

I wasn’t surprised to see some people supporting Toronto Mayor David Miller’s call for a complete ban on the private ownership of handguns in Canada. What surprised me was the level of ignorance to which those in favor of the ban seemed to aspire.

How about a ban on socialists?

Toronto Mayor David Miller has launched an on-line petition to have the federal government legislate an outright ban on the ownership of handguns in Canada, believing if such a ban is instituted in Canada it would reduce the incidence of hand gun crimes.

A few modest proposals…

Politics has always been about people and ideas. Some people have great ideas, but don’t have the people skills to actualize them, while others have really bad ideas that somehow find their way into the mainstream.

Lose your job yet?  Keep voting Liberal

Dalton McGuinty’s fiscal policies appear to be designed to bring Ontario’s GDP on par with that of Burkina Faso. His finance minister, Dwight Duncan (Donuts) unveiled the province’s budget last week to great fanfare from the Left and dismay from everyone else, including federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who had urged the McGuintyites to cut corporate taxes.

Futility in Africa

Today citizens of Zimbabwe will go to the polls and reelect 84-year old Robert Mugabe for yet another term as President For Life. Perhaps reelect is the wrong term, as it implies that there was actually an open and honest election. More apropos might be that Mugabe reappoints himself President for Life following today’s election.