Quote of the Day: “There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.” Thomas Sowell
Last Thursday 31 January 2023, I mentioned that TheRecord re-printed an article by Tara Deschamps of the Canadian Press from the previous Saturday. Today, the Sudoku on Page A2 is an exact duplicate of the Sudoku on Page A2 from yesterday. Are a group of children now running Layout? Idiots.
My love/hate relationship with Luisa D’Amato continues because today she has an op-ed on the Front Page that is absolutely spot on – I loved it. She talks about the brutal “Last-minute chaos served no one, as councillors tried to influence budget” meeting this week regarding the Regional Budget. When I read the rather detailed description of the 12(?) hour council meeting, all I could think about was the stupid grandstanding by a morons who pretend to lead our Region. She tells us that: “Waterloo regional councillors had spent weeks focusing on the $1.9billion budget in front of them. They’d listened to countless citizens and asked careful questions about how the impact on local property taxes could be lessened, while still funding important services. But then, during one final marathon meeting on Wednesday, these same elected officials engaged in what I can only describe as a describe as a frantic, 11th-hour series of smash-and-grab attempts to cut costs, move money around, add revenue, or spend more. It seemed chaotic.” This is an understatement. Great column by D’Amato. Everyone should read it and remember the fools who embarrassed the Region.
Navneet Alang and his TorStar masters have been at war with “Big Tech” for some time now. The first time I wrote about Alang’s ongoing rants was way back on Monday 23 November 2020. In his op-ed in TheRecord that day, he suggested that a “publicly funded” (read: government) take over email, calendaring – “albeit with strict legal limits around privacy”, of course. He is an idiot. Alang starts out his op-ed on Page A15 today by asking: “How do you know when a company has become too powerful? If you were a policy wonk, you might look for signs of a monopoly. An economist could look at market share, or perhaps runaway profits.” Gee Navneet – just what do you think that TorStar has been doing for the last 30 years? Looking at the Metroland Media Group website, I count 92 newspapers, both digital and home delivery that they own. Monopoly? I guess Alang put on his TorStar blinders before he wrote this article. I could go through the rest of his column, but why? Just search for his name on this website and you can see all of my comments and line by line analysis of his op-eds. Total nonsense.