Charles Patton is the owner of Water ‘N’ Wine, a store in New Glasgow, N.S. that sells wine-making kits and rents storage space that customers can use during the fermentation process. But this small business owner may soon be forced to put a cork in it, if the provincial government has its way. Stores that [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Jesse Kline on Nova Scotia’s war on private liquor
Posted by Jesse Kline on December 10, 2011 4 comments
Imans speek out against honour killings
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on December 8, 2011 1 comment
It makes me glad to see this sort of thing. The more people that condemn this sort of primitive behaviour the better. I am glad that Canada has such leaders in its Muslim community. Canadian imams plan to condemn the “misguided notion” of so-called honor killings in their Friday sermons this week, responding to the [...]
Flaherty demands veto power over bank decisions
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on December 8, 2011 4 comments
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is arguing that he should have more power over what banks do because if the banks screw up it is Ottawa that is “on the hook.” Of course it doesn’t occur to him that Ottawa isn’t actually “on the hook” in the sense that the government HAS to bail out banks. [...]
The one big problem with the Canada-USA border agreement
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on December 7, 2011 5 comments
The CBC lists 6 things that we can expect to be in the new border agreement between Canada and the USA that is being announced today. Of those 6 items I support without hesitation 5 of them. The first on the list, however, gives me pause. 1. Better aligned regulations: Canada and the U.S. still [...]
The LCBO and the neo-prohibitionists
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on December 7, 2011 1 comment
Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan defended the board of the LCBO with words such as “competent” but at the same time he endorsed Auditor General Jim McCarter’s criticism that the LCBO doesn’t do enough to negotiate lower prices. I suspect that Mr. Duncan is thinking about the deficit and realizes that perhaps the LCBO cash [...]
The LCBO screws consumers with baffling business practice
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on December 5, 2011 6 comments
One of the arguments often made in favour of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario’s monopoly is that, by being the world’s largest single purchaser, it can negotiate discounts with suppliers. This argument deserves a great deal of skepticism. After all it isn’t like alcohol is particularly cheap at the LCBO. It turns out that [...]
The core of the European crisis is a lack of economic freedom
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on December 1, 2011 Comments Off
As the Greek crisis rapidly turn into the European crisis there is a scramble by world leaders to “fix it.” Of course it isn’t that easy because the real crisis in Europe is a systemic one; the real downfall of Europe is a lack of economic freedom and it isn’t going to be easy for [...]
Randy Hillier pushing to end pit bull ban
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on December 1, 2011 Comments Off
Randy Hillier is leading the charge to repeal one of Dalton McGuinty’s many bans, the ban on pit bulls. He is being joined by MPPs from both the Liberal Party and the NDP. Considering the multiparty nature of this move and the minority parliament, I am pretty hopeful that it will get through. The pit [...]