Buckle-up and hold on to your cash all you fed-up tax-payers as Kari Simpson has a blast of an interview with the handsome, witty and very smart Jordan Bateman, BC Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation – one of Canada’s favourite government watchdog groups.
A new Canadian Taxpayers Federation report, Tax on the Menu, looks at food taxes through the lens of dozens of peer-reviewed academic studies and ample real world evidence from around the globe proving food taxes of all kinds are entirely ineffective in reducing obesity. Report author Peter Shawn Taylor, editor-at-large for Maclean’s, joins CTF B.C. Director and Tax Talk host Jordan Bateman to talk about his report’s findings and bust some of the myths spun by various social engineers. To read the full Tax on the Menu report, click here.
Plus our usual features – the Comment of the Cast (building on last week’s EI story) and the Waste of the Week (does the state belong in the lunch boxes of the nation?).
Ontario’s provincial debt is growing by $371 per second – $32.1 million each and every day. Yet provincial politicians seem oblivious to the need to rein in their spending. Join Tax Talk host and CTF B.C. Director Jordan Bateman as he talks about Ontario spending scandals – including a $1.1 billion gas plant relocation boondoggle and cutting cheques to NBA billionaires – with the Canadian Taxpayers Federations Ontario director, Candice Malcolm. Plus our usual features – the Comment of the Cast and Waste of the Week!
Join Ron Gray as RoadKill Radio welcomes the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's British Columbia Director Jordan Bateman into the fold. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is a national non-profit organization dedicated to lowering taxes, exposing government waste, and holding politicians accountable. Jordan's show, "Tax Talk", will appear on RoadKillRadio.com every Thursday. Be there and become aware!
Has Christian Bashing become a court sanctioned sport in Canada? Don Spratt joins Kari Simpson for a lively expose on what is happening in Canada. Can your faith convictions get you convicted? YES!!
When British Columbians head to the polls May 14, will they be educated about their provincial government, and the chicanery of Christy Clark's BC Liberals? Of course not. Join Mark as he talks to Joe Trasolini, incumbent NDP MLA for Port Moody-Coquitlam, about the Little Mountain "relocation" scandal, which has forced taxpayers to house former Little Mountain residents in expensive private market housing. And the ongoing cover-up, by BC Housing, of a damning report from the Office of the Comptroller General. It's investigative reporting, Roadkill-style!
Kari Simpson and Ron Gray continue their recent discussion with Jim Hnatiuk, leader of Canada's socially and fiscally conservative Christian Heritage Party. As former leader of the same party, Ron Gray has intimate knowledge of the party's history, and his successor Mr. Hnatiuk spells out the current state and plans for the future. Tune in to hear Kari Simpson's rationale for her suggestion that the party would serve the public better if it changed its name to the all-inclusive, all-welcoming (and more accurate) name of "Canadian Heritage Party".
Mark Hasiuk is joined by Diane Watts, researcher for Real Women of Canada (.ca), who expresses her organization's stance on such varied topics as equality in the work place, abortion, family rights, child care, abuse, slut-walking, and feminism as a socialist agenda. Tune in to hear a Real Woman of Canada who believes that women – as equals to men – are not to be coddled as a weak, needy, special interest group.
In the first of two parts, Kari Simpson and Ron Gray speak with Jim Hnatiuk, leader of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada. Mr. Hnatiuk discusses the government's new Office of Religious Freedom, and exposes it as a ploy to further destroy the Canadian culture by devaluing the very values on which this country was built.
More than 1,200 people in the UK—mostly young ‘social media’ users—were actually jailed last year for things they posted on networking sites like FaceBook and Twitter, writes Philip Hodges of GodfatherPolitics. He worries that the trend could come across the Atlantic to the USA and Canada.
“We are headed in the same direction,” Hodges writes. “People have already been arrested and detained [in the U.S.] for things they’ve said on Facebook and Twitter, and even on radio talk shows. However, nothing was done about all those murderous rants against Romney on Twitter.
“Politicians talk a great deal about preventing terrorism and protecting people from Internet child pornography. But it’s clear all they really want to do is silence their opposition.”
In the UK, the arrests were for posting electronic messages that are “grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.”
“More than 1,200 (mostly young) people were convicted last year, up from 873 in 2009,” he wrote.
“Those who voice their opinions on social networking sites are doing just that… voicing their opinions. Their statements aren’t meant to threaten any particular person. They’re meant to be seen by their ‘friend’ audience… If you are truly offended by something someone said, ‘unfriend’ that person… All it takes is one call from a disgruntled viewer, and that’s all it takes to land you jail.”
Ron Gray takes us into the original Supreme Court of British Columbia trial in which Kari Simpson's lawsuit against shock jock Rafe Mair and his radio station was heard by Justice Mary Marvyn Koenigsberg who – unbeknownst to Simpson at the time – was embroiled in her own anti-defamation lawsuit. You'll hear the arguments made in defence of Rafe Mair's outlandish lies and slanders against an innocent defender of family rights, and hear why "Justice" Koenigsberg might be inclined to look the other way.
Mark Hasiuk speaks with John Stackhouse, journalist and theologian. Among the topics: How questioning your faith can make you much stronger and more fulfilled. Professor Stackhouse, a prolific writer, currently teaches at Regent College in Vancouver, BC.
This week Kari Simpson and Ron Gray speak with Sal Vetro, the interim president of the Bc First Party. Mr. Vetro describes his party's philosophy of breaking party lines in order to support the best overall candidates who will represent the interests of BC residents, not just special interest groups and corporations. Imagine that: a party for All the People!
Kari Simpson and Ron Gray speak with lawyer and respected pro-life activist Rebecca Kiessling, who is a product of a rape and a survivor of two near-abortions. Ms. Kiessling tells her personal story, a story about a life – her life – that was spared from death by abortion, protected by law, and testifies as to why abortion is not simply a woman’s choice over her body alone. This is a must listen-to show, Ms. Kiessling’s story should be told in every home and classroom of the nation. The interview features insight into Ms. Kiessling’s recent debate with the radical feminist, pro-abortion propagandist Gloria Allred on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight.
Ron Gray recounts the period of time in 1997 when Rafe Mair and other talk show hosts on radio station CKNW deliberately silenced a story that other news outlets were featuring in front page headlines and top stories- some for 3 days straight! In an obvious attempt to bolster Rafe Mair’s lies about Kari Simpson, CKNW scandalously kept its listeners from the truth – only presenting Mair’s continuing vilification of Simpson and refusing to inform listeners about the true facts!
Brian Lilley speaks to Kari Simpson, the conservative radio host censored – temporarily – by Vimeo for merely reporting a factually correct news story.