Yesterday Volvo announced it will sell Uber 24,000 self-driving taxis by early 2019. It’s silence from Politicians and the School system while they are doing absolutey nothing about this inevitable loss of 100’s of thousands of taxi, delivery and trucking jobs to this technology in just a bit more than a year. Nothing has been done, nor is anything planned to be done just as this problem accelerates. 

….also from Michael: Government To Decide What Companies Pay Their Workers

In the October update, we find that our Government is passing on an additional $86 Billion, $500 Million dollars in debt to our children over the next 5 years.  We are not even in bad times, so the question becomes if we don’t things off when times are good, when will we?

….also from Michael: Redistribution of Wealth Is Economically Toxic

Labour is pushing Government to impose a 30% plus increase in wages on businesses by 2019. Worse, the cost to employers will increase by another 20% when the employers contribution to the CPP is paid on the workers behalf as they must. To these huge increases you also have to add…..’

….also from Michael: Overpaying Federal Civil Servants

Climate heroes continue to behave inconsistenly with science, common sense and respect. Canada’s Environment minister continually uses the term Climate Denier, which is anti-science in her attempt to squelch debate while she rips around in jets. Canada’s Gregor Robertson, a so-called climate hero has the biggest carbon footprint of any Canadian Municipal politician. If it all didn’t cost taxpayers so much, it might be tolerable.

….also from Michael: Government Pays a $4.8M Performance Bonus For a Billion $ Screw Up

Maybe P.J. O’Rourke was onto something when he said “its a popular delusion that Government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. No, enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money”.

….also from Michael: 

Government Pays a $4.8M Performance Bonus For a Billion $ Screw Up