Only part of his column today discusses the Ontario government's decision to remove information about school performance from its Ministry of Education's website, but Rick Salutin still manages to make two fundamental mistakes: "Competition makes for better schools," said a Globe and Mail editorial, without a shred of evidence, since there is none. The U.S. […]

Today's G&M has what purports to be an exposé on subprime mortgages in Canada: Canada's dirty subprime secret: Since the subprime mortgage meltdown in the United States, Canadian leaders have assured the public that a similar tidal wave of foreclosures can't hit here. They have cited the prudence and market dominance of Canada's five most […]

Today's entry comes from Macleans.ca's "Need to Know" section: Death of newspapers will result in greater corruption: People have been predicting the demise of newspapers for years, but now that newsrooms are shutting down, some are taking a hard look at what comes next. And the view isn’t a good one. In a lengthy piece […]

Gaaah. This is just crazy. I generally try to avoid fisking, but this is a case where so many clangers pile on top of each other like so many cars in a train wreck that there simply isn't another way of pointing out the awfulness of what Mr Reynolds has inflicted on unsuspecting Globe and […]

This is just silly: The Canadian dollar took a beating on currency markets Tuesday and stock markets tumbled amid investor disappointment in the U.S. government's financial rescue package. The currency closed down 1.97 cents (U.S.) to 80.24 cents after going as low as 80.04 cents as investors dumped a wide variety of currencies and bought […]