Quote of the Day: “Blaming economic crises on ‘greed’ is like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Certainly planes wouldn’t crash if it wasn’t for gravity. But when thousands of planes fly millions of miles every day without crashing, explaining why a particular plane crashed because of gravity gets you nowhere. Neither does talking about ‘greed’ which is constant like gravity.” Thomas Sowell
During the municipal election last year, every last poll that was conducted told us that the cost of housing and affordability was the number one concern of practically everyone in the Region. But, on the Front Page today, when a developer wants to build an apartment building at Highland and Spadina in Kitchener, we get a headline that states: “Plan for 17-storey Kitchener rental apartment draws criticism”. The so-called housing crisis is a joke. As I’ve said before, there is no affordable housing issue.
Also on the Front Page today, we have another non-issue: “The federal government is being urged to follow through with its commitment to develop a Black Canadian justice strategy.” And why is that, you ask??? “Black Canadians are consistently overrepresented in Canadian jails: Black people make up less than four per cent of the Canadian population but about eight per cent of the federal prison population.” Oh. O.K. “Canada’s Black Justice Strategy will put us on a path toward a more just and equitable society by addressing systemic discrimination and the overrepresentation of Black people in the criminal justice system, including as victims of crime.” said Justice Minister David Lametti’s Press Secretary, Diana Ebadi. The article states that: “The House of Commons public safety committee said in a 2021 report that systemic racism in policing was a ‘real and pressing problem to be urgently addressed.’ It recommended creating a national strategy to address the disproportionately high rates of racialized people in the criminal justice system.” That might be true for Black and Indigenous people in Canada, but it is not true for Asian and South Asian communities. Why??? Did anyone ever suggest that the reason there are more Black and Indigenous people in prison is because Black and Indigenous people simply commit more crimes???
Normally, on Page A4 everyday, is a small column of articles called Local Briefs. Robberies, accidents, court reportings etc. Today, it looks like there is a major formatting error on the page where we have one sentence that is the start of an article, highlighted in blue and on its own in a column. I mentioned last week that they repeated a whole column from the Canadian Press on this page within a few days of each other. What’s going on?
The Editorial today is on (what else?) health care. It talks about the $25 Billion (over 10 years) that the Federal government is borrowing from future taxpayers to give to the provinces. The Editorial suggests that: “New strategies are needed for recruiting doctors, reducing their paperwork so they can see more patients, allow expedited credentialing across the country and for new arrivals from abroad. Additionally, have more of the hands-on care done by nurse practitioners or in health-care teams, including nurses and pharmacists (Ontario is moving in the latter direction).” That’s nice. But again as I mentioned last week, just what incentive is there for anyone in the medical profession to do this? They still get paid the same if they invest in creating efficiencies or not… Stupid.