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Then again, it's entirely possible that Wynne's vote buying promises went well and those promises are enticing voters. If I was 25 and starting a family, I would be wooed by the promise of free child care and other goodies dangled before my eyes. When you're 25 do you really care where the money is coming from to pay for those programs, especially if you pay no income taxes at all? I think back when Trudeau Senior was PM and I was a lowly public service clerk, he gave me large pay increases. Think 8 to 12%. I did not give a hoot how those pay raises would be paid or who would pay for them. In exchange he won my vote. As for Ford, it may not be what he is doing or not doing, even the fact he stepped in it saying he would reduce the CBC budget. Big deal, he made a mistake. It's that Wynne and her Liberals are opting to have a fire sale in order to increase their chances of staying in power. At first glance it appears to be working.

Is it any worse than PM Trudeau publicly proclaiming that Canada has just celebrated its 100th birthday when it was actually 150th?

Well, he doubled spending his first term, then doubled it again his second. He built up the debt so that when double digit inflation came in it exploded and became the multi hundred million dollar monster it is now. He also initiated large scale third world immigration, to what ends we still don't know, and pretty much destroyed our military while sucking up to the Chinese and Cubans and alienating half the country.

The reason rents are skyrocketing is lack of supply. The reason there is a lack of supply is government. Rent controls are another case of government interfering in the market to create a problem, then interfering again to 'solve' the problem. Except it won't solve it. The supply situation will continue to worsen because no one is going to build rental housing if they can't make a decent profit at it.

How about removing rent control, where the rents in Canada's largest city are already skyrocketing due to loopholes ? We have a "choice" between insane spending and deficit-building and a 53-year-old politician who does not understand how the CBC is funded. Well done, Ontario.

I blame the southern European immigrants, specifically the Italians and Russians who are extreme socialist and want government to take care of them. Had we taken in more immigrants from countries where government doesn't help people we wouldn't be in in this problem (ie asia and africa)

I see a difference. One means we have given up, become numb through desensitization and another says we have discussed this as a choice and accepted the choice. We have as much a role as we have with any medium. Our primary role is to "talk about them". As with television, it's possible to keep the medium and understand it, and *maybe* change it. Yes, and I noticed that this story about Facebook wasn't even covered properly because it couldn't be. People simply don't understand how the algorithms work. So the breach of trust (and it was a breach of trust) is covered much as a 'hack' of personal financial data is even though that never happened. The US government and Canadian government perhaps care about your Facebook 'likes' (and I hope they do) but they actually do what we're warned about, ie. they eavesdrop on us. This has come up again and again and it seems like we accept it, in return for a promise of increased security. I'm ok with that too.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/ After you listen to that podcast, you may start to question the automatic right to "privacy". If it mean an end to crime - and nothing more - I would be all in favour of police having complete surveillance ability of public spaces. Even with the margin of abusive behaviour by the authorities one could argue that it's still worth the trade-off to give surveillance power to authorities. We certainly do something like that for electronic communication. The system can't be built, though, that will control human behaviour IMO.