Quote of the Day: “Reality does not go away when it is ignored.” Thomas Sowell
“Memorial Cup tourney put on ice” is the headline today. I’ll bet it took the editors all night to come up with that line.
The bio for Sean Strickland on the Insight (Huh?) Page today, tells us he is the Executive Director of the Canada’s Building Trades Unions. Ummm… O.K., but isn’t he also a fifth term elected (and the most leftist) member of Waterloo Regional Council? Gee, how did the Insight (Huh?) Page editors missed that? Anyway, we all know what they say about time and a broken clock, and his op-ed today is one of those times that the clock is correct. He argues that skilled trades people should be able to claim travel expenses while going from job to job – just like other workers such as accountants. Great point. But I had to laugh at his line: “Currently, we have thousands of unemployed construction workers in Alberta, and Newfoundland and Labrador because of the energy sector’s hardships…” Yea, hardships that were created by policies that the NDP, Green and Liberal parties (and Mr. Strickland, I assume) endorse.