Tory Redux

Author: Jon Siemko

  • Steyn on the King’s speech

    From Mark Steyn 

    I don’t think The King’s Speech is a classic for the ages, but it didn’t have to be up against Sunday’s competition. As Fred says, it’s not about some (to Americans) obscure Brit toff stammering for a couple of hours, but about something larger and primal – duty and responsibility, even when you don’t want to do something, even when in the objective sense you are entirely unsuited to the burdens placed upon you. The King’s Speech is, in Hollywood terms, a “small” movie, but it’s big at heart. By contrast, The Social Network isn’t about anything other than its own superficial cool.

  • Former e Health Chief turns up in California

    From  Toronto Star
    Almost two years after she left as boss of eHealth Ontario in a politically damaging scandal, Sarah Kramer has a new job in California.

    Kramer, who came under fire at eHealth for runaway spending by consultants and her $317,000 severance package, is executive director of a team bringing electronic health records to the UCLA Health System’s patients in four hospitals and clinics with 2,000 doctors. She is working as a consultant, and is not on staff.

    It is a bit ironic that Kramer goes from a province facing fiscal difficulty to a state that some term a financial basket case. I guess it’s true what they say misery really does love company.

  • McGuinty Says No to Inquiry

    From QMI Agency
    Premier Dalton McGuinty won’t call a public inquiry into police actions at the G20, he said Monday.


    “With five separate reviews under way, I think we are coming at it from a number of perspectives,” McGuinty said. “I’m going to let the reviews speak to that.”


    The Canadian Civil Liberties Association released its report into the actions of police and treatment of protesters during last summer’s summit, which involved the largest number of mass arrests in Canadian history.