Patrick Brown:

The media trial and execution of the PC party leader in Ontario earned the eager approval of nearly everyone interviewed on electronic media. All agreed that women need to be protected from sexually aggressive men.

NDP leader Andrea Horwath even marvelled about how brave those two anonymous plaintiffs were and pointed to the Jian Ghomeshi verdict as her reason.

Nobody worried that making such accusations anonymously and piling on someone with so much to lose may be viewed as a vindictive, insensitive act that can do damage out of all proportions to the alleged misdemeanour.

Nobody appeared to worry about ruined reputations, livelihoods, destroyed careers and tarnished family values, all before any proof of guilt was offered.

It is possible--even probable--that resurrecting an event insignificant enough to be ignored for ten years can qualify as an extremely vengeful, malicious thing to do.

We don't know who these mortally wounded women are, but joining the speculation here, we should be free to imagine them to be a pair of tramps taking the opportunity to brag about who they were able to get intimately friendly with just a few years ago.

The alleged villain is always some high-profile male, especially if he is financially viable and/or socially significant. It is never one of the street people or some poor beggar who they once eagerly joined for a romp in some back alley trash dumpster. It's got to be a Donald Trump, a Bill Cosby or some randy movie director.

All this is the new norm in today's social consciousness. There are many sick people out there, and not all of them are saddled with problems of sexual promiscuity.

The Job Market:

The Sun columnist who sees small business owners investing in luxury cars or trips into the Caribbean instead of paying their employees the moment they show a profit is mirroring the typical socialist headspace. It's not like that at all.

Getting to be an employer is usually part of a process that takes dedication, risk, and a lot of hard work. Almost exclusively, employers are graduates from the ranks of employees. Almost never are they people who wasted their time joining gangs and marching for free handouts from politicians looking for votes.

By the time they make it as employers, their experience tells them which of their employees is valuable enough to keep and reward with something more than minimum wage. There is no room for political tinkering in a process that should respond strictly to market conditions.

It is uncertain if Kathleen Wynn ever had to work for a living, but if she had, it quite obviously failed to qualify her to make the kinds of decisions employers have to make daily.

LCD appeasements:

More crap-O-la from our alleged institutions of higher learning.

A news item tells of a prof who dared challenge a disruptive student at the university of Guelph and was ambushed by other students armed with cell phones and an all-inclusive, politically correct headspace. He (the prof) was suspended by a like-minded administration.

What a disruptive student who needed a personal handler in order to safely navigate within a classroom according to the report was doing at the university needs some explanation. Is this the ultimate result of the No student left behind Ontario teaching policy?

What's next? Fully-accredited graduates unable to function without personal handlers?

It shouldn't be hard to see that investing in the lowest common denominator will ultimately result in bringing everyone down to that level. It's a good way to make education totally meaningless.

Is this a sure sign that our civilization has now run its course and is ready for the scrap heap? 

When we went to school in my day, it was to learn whatever we can from our teachers, not judge them.

More Min Wage Fallout:

This week I watched as the shelves at my favorite supermarket were emptied, not re-filled and abandoned. My favorite cashier, who learned over the past 11 years which questions not to ask as she accepted my money, told me in a whisper that the store was closing.

It's not the biggest supermarket around, but I'd estimate there will be about 50 people looking for work. My cashier also said another store in the vicinity is also about to fold. She found that out when she went looking for work.

Despite such goings-on, our esteemed premier, Kathleen Wynn, is promising still more mindless tinkering with market place economics. Instead of allowing the market to decide what's a doable minimum wage, she is imposing ideas for economic success straight out of Karl Marx.

It might work for her, too. By the time the actual fallout of her assault on small business becomes clear, she may again be enjoying another majority government.

War on Small Biz:

Most savvy politicians at least pretend they are on the side of small business. That's because small biz creates jobs, especially in that segment of the population that is looking for work for the first time.

But not in Ontario. Here premier Wynne is willing to throw small business under the bus just because she calculates there are more votes in people who will take a couple of bucks more home each week.

It's an exercise in cynicism that's not easy to match.

Global Cooling:

The cold snap over the holidays in North America has set the Global Warming cheerleaders scrambling for explanations. 

Predictably, they quote academics who are onside or are simply looking to get their name in the news. As usual, statistics tweaked to prove that global warming is to blame for the cold snap are trotted out.

What's missing from all the reports is the thought that maybe, just maybe, it is all a hoax based on biased or faulty analysis and media hype.

Lynn Beyak:

Senator Lynn Beyak should have known better than to say how she felt about the situation at the aboriginal schools in Canada. 

Doing so brought down the righteous wrath of every politician on Parliament Hill focused on pleasing voters in the politically correct, all-inclusive, lowest common denominator crowd. There's quite a few, and now we know who they are.

As a politician she ought to have known that Pierre Elliott Trudeau's (1982) Charter of Rights and Privileges guarantees her rights to free speech, but only if she is reckless enough to risk having them first challenged by the thought police and  processed through the law courts.

Apparently, there are many politicians focused not on freedom of speech, but only on getting elected.

Lynn, if you ever decide to run for Prime Minister, you have my vote.