by Diane Ferguson
My daughters both like acting, so we took them to see Carousel at the Roxy this past fall. We got together with other friends who were bringing their children. The play was so well done, well-acted, the sound was fantastic, but the play itself left me stunned. Is this 2016?
The basic premise of the story is a young woman falls in love with a bad-boy, Billy the barker, from the carousel. They go through hard economic times and he hits his wife. But his wife never gives up because she loves him. Billy dies in a botched robbery and is given a chance to redeem himself. He offers his now grown-up daughter, a star he stole. When she refuses, he hits her too. The daughter asks her mother if it's possible for a hit to feel like a kiss. And her mother answers, yes. Billy is redeemed and goes to heaven.
I have to admit, I didn't read up on this play before attending. But it was a musical. I didn't expect to
As police investigate the discovery of barbed wire on four snowmobile trails (related story here) in the area over the past few weeks, questions have been raised about the motive behind the dangerous and possibly criminal acts. Is someone overreacting to concerns about the Supporting Ontario's Trails Act recently put forward by Michael Coteau, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport? The following is a media release from the Ontario Trails Council offering answers to some of the common questions about the Bill.
"Recent media reports concerning the impacts of Bill 100 – "The Ontario Trails Act" have the potential to cause real damage to ...
by David McLaren
Think 'property.' Now think 'treaty' ... as in those instruments that transferred land from people who belonged to it, to people to whom it then belonged. Pretty good deal for us, not so much for First Nations. (A stony outcropping of land called the Bruce Peninsula was evaluated not so long ago as being worth some $50 billion – just imagine what the rest of Canada is worth.)
Now you're in the proper frame of mind to consider the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). That's the instrument that the Conservatives negotiated and that Parliament ...
-by Bill Moses
In the present day it appears that we do not have enough jobs to go around – or, to put it another way, - income disparity. Part of this problem is because people hang on to their jobs long after their basic lifetime financial needs are met. They build million dollar homes and travel to exotic locales to soak up the excess - and I have no problem with that. However, I do have a suggestion.
At the present moment income tax on employment (T4 income) is based on annual income. However, what if it was based on lifetime income? To give a simple example, no income tax on the first $500,000 of lifetime employment income earnings, 10% on the next $500,000, 20% on the next $500,000 and so on perhaps going up to a 90% level at some point. Past employment income earnings would have to be indexed for inflation and people would receive an annual statement telling them where they stand. With this method one would think that at some point people would say they were tired of "working for the government" and retire earlier...
- by Bill Monahan
With the determination of the new federal government to legalize the recreational use of cannabis, it seems a good time to have a look at its THC-free cousin, industrial hemp. Could the cultivation and processing of this remarkable plant bring much-needed ....
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