Quote of the Day: “Some things must be done on faith, but the most dangerous kind of faith is that which masquerades as ‘science.’” Thomas Sowell
Kitchener Centre MPP Laura Mae Lindo is quitting. Good. She was useless for Kitchener.
Brent Davis reports on Page 4 today about the proposed 2023 Region of Waterloo budget that could add $138 to the average property tax bill. However, this doesn’t include the Waterloo Regional Police budget that would add an additional $50 to the average tax bill for a total proposed regional increase of about $188. The main driver of this increase is the spend “…on housing and homelessness is expected to rise to $123.9 million in 2023, from $107.6 million last year”, Davis tells us. Really??? And just why is the Region in the housing business anyway? As I see it, the Region should make our streets safe to walk on and our roads safe to drive on and little else. If this keeps up, every last taxpayer in the Region will need subsidized housing.
Another op-ed instead of an Editorial today. Michael Levitt has been the President and CEO of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center since September 2020. He tells us about antisemitism in Canada and what is being done about it. Good op-ed, but it still isn’t an Editorial.
TheRecord’s Chicken Little has another column on the Insight Page today. She digs up obscure papers from somewhere that all point to the horrors of plastic. Oh my. We just might as well drop dead right now. Oh course, she neglects to point out the actual horrors of just 50 years ago when there wasn’t any plastic wrap or zip lock bags or air tight containers. Consumers wrapped their perishable food in oh so sterile newspapers and other forms of paper. Her columns would actually be funny if they weren’t so sad…