Monday digest
- This CBC offering, "Little Mosque on the Prairie", has ratings juggernaut written all over it ... not! (Your tax dollars at work, people.)
- The Most Annoying Canadian competition is now open for voting. I'd have to add one person to the list, and that's Canada AM's Bev Thompson, who asked Calgary Herald journalist Don Martin this morning if he was able to find out if Belinda Stronach's breasts are real when doing research for his new book, titled "Belinda".
Please.
With talking heads like Bev in place to interpret current events and public affairs for Joe Q. Public, is it any wonder Canadians can't make a clear distinction between such complicated issues as the Afghan mission and the Bush presidency?
- The collapse of an overpass in Montreal over the weekend is deeply troubling. This tragedy is making international headlines as these deaths were totally avoidable. If I was a Montrealer today, I'd be embarassed. Shouldn't the most socialist political entity in all of North America, the one with the most extensive welfare state going, have better infrastructure at the very least? This is public sector failure at its worst. On top of being known continent-wide for empty sports stadiums and pro-Hezbollah rallies, the city now has this PR nightmare to deal with. Too bad you can't advertise the blue collar ballet because at this point, that's pretty much the only reason anyone would have to visit the place.
- Finally, because I'm as sick of him as you are, the last word on Bill Clinton, here.
posted by Road Hammer @ 10:14 AM
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13 Comments:
Quebec's highways have always been a terrible joke. My Dad has made jokes for years about them.
Take a look at the state of the Met in Montreal, or the Decarie and you will see how bad it is. The thing is, it has always looked like that!
As overseen, subcontracted, accounted for and ultimately owned by the most socialist institution in all of North American history, the Quebec state.
I thought bigger government was supposed to work better than this.
Half empty football stadiums (up until this season) and a crumbling infrastructure causing the death of innocents (100's, not a few). Isn't that New Orleans?
Is big government the culprit there too?
And how about Darcy Tucker and John Baird for most annoying Canuck?
Half empty football stadiums (up until this season) and a crumbling infrastructure causing the death of innocents (100's, not a few). Isn't that New Orleans?
Is big government the culprit there too?
And how about Darcy Tucker and John Baird for most annoying Canuck?
Hammer man, surprised to see your "last word on Clinton" says the following.
"Both President Bush and President Clinton have been very misleading to the American people, telling them we're at war because of our freedoms and our liberties and because of gender equality and because of elections. None of that is true. We're at war because of what we do in the Islamic world."
I also noted the author of this column says that Clinton is wrong for pointing the finger at the CIA.
Isn't that all the Bush admin. has been doing since it admitted there are no WMDs?
I've heard countless times -- included two weekends ago on 60 Minutes by Condi -- that the CIA fed the government bunk intel ... and that was what the government acted on.
It's not the private sector, that's the point. You can guarantee that if these roads were privately owned, they would be kept up a hell of a lot better because the owner would have an incentive to do so. However, given that such an idea is clearly off the table in Trudeaupia, the most that can be said is that if the Quebec state spent less of their copious amounts of tax revenue and federal transfer payments government babysitting programs, not to mention tongue troopers, public infrastructure wouldn't be in the Third World condition it is in la belle province today.
Here's a great take on it from the reader comments section at Globe and Mail dot com:
"So Quebec runs a society where the government promises to deliver almost everything to everyone and takes most of most people's money to deliver this utopia. And they are surprised when the ambitious and intelligent ones keep leaving, the money gets scarce, and the utopia literally crumbles to the echo of bureaucrats lame excuses. The incompetent Stan Koebel types emerge from government woodwork and the loss of few citizens - to death or to Ontario, is a small price to pay to make this great dream real. Quebec is on a path of serious decline that will continue until it gets off the statist train that all the other modern countries have been moving away from. Welcome to Ontario, Alberta and BC former Quebecois, thanks for bringing your energy and intelligence to build our future together!"
Perhaps I should have taken a tip from the NYT and only used info that supports my own ideologically driven, narrowly partisan, neo-conservative hit job agenda.
Stephen LeDrew is the most annoying Canadian.
Anyone who wears a bow tie deserves to be taken out and beaten within an inch of his pompous, pretentious life.
The thing is, it is not just age, these roads/bridges were built poorly in the first place. It was well known when the freeways went up in the 60s/early 70s that there were some, ahem, creative methods used in construction.
Yes Bob, these were private sector builders but they were also, ahem, "connected". Know whadda mean?
Volpe and Gagliagno would accuse you guys of anti-Italian discrimination for making those insinuations.
Takin' a cement bath?
Montreal construction was known for it back then... and the crappy materials used, and work done.
Nothing comes close to it in Ontario.
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