Recent content by Brad Sallows

I wonder if the mayor thinks longshoremen should go back to carrying crates up gangways into ships.

No-one is taking food away. OAS has been around for a long time, throughout which deficits have been paid by borrowing. We had a prolonged period of fiscal surplus during which we were in effect paying for all the promises we made to ourselves in real-time, and paying down the accumulated...

There should be nothing wrong with having three sets of numbers: the scale required for training, the scale required for war, and the scale permitted by budgets. This would not really be any different than having two sets of numbers for people (establishment, PY) and equipment (establishment...

It's been hard for Canada to catch up to being more European, but we're getting there.

Not many voters willingly give up benefits; they seem to prefer to stay bought. People who are principled and do want to give up their benefits can always send back the money as "Gift to Canada".

Seniors' discounts exist for a couple of different reasons. They exist to provide people on low (and often fixed) incomes with a bit of a price break; this applies to public and private enterprises. They are a useful marketing tool to draw the attention, and thus the spending, of seniors who...

That's the least of would-be privateers' worries. Their main worry is that when they start going after merchant shipping of a nation, that nation may sink, burn, or take them in return. Historically a privateer might command a vessel just qualifying as a fifth or sixth rate, usually less. Few...

Your citation mentioned CPP, so you did say "something". Equally pedantic, you did only say "a good chunk" (ie. not "all"), but without defining how much a "good chunk" is. It would be better if you quantified the chunk and didn't leave readers to guess how much. Information shouldn't be...

Neither. Sarcastic. I use the tag usually when some headline or remark refers to something that should be obvious or matter-of-course. I assume you've never seen The Kentucky Fried Movie.

Flags are down a lot these days, depending on what whoever is flying them cares about. I too would prefer the criteria to be a lot more exceptional. Ditto use of the word "heroes". Canadian society seems to have gradually become more mawkish. A prolonged period of major misfortune would...

Vowing to prepare for all contingencies including war... Federal government vows to meet core responsibilities. Film at 11.

Immediate shortages in some critical fields.

Cut them both.

The backlashes are fundamentally due to governments over-promising and under-delivering, and a large fraction appears to be due to the cultural strain of policies preferred by elites and imposed on the underclasses, particularly immigration.

You're not helping anyone; you're providing misleading information and thus misleading conclusions. CPP isn't pogey. GIS arguably isn't pogey (the maximum income threshold is low, well below median income let alone the cutoffs people on this site have been discussing for OAS). What about OAS...