Tag archives for Canada

  1. And You Thought HMOs Were Heartless

    The British National Health Service recently announced and odd treatment schedule for patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness in developed countries. The NHS has decided that it will only approve treatment for macular degeneration once the disease is present in both eyes, and then it will only treat…

  2. More on the Counterproductive Nature of Sugar Tariffs

    Back in February I mentioned that high tariffs on sugar had caused Kraft to announce that it would close the LifeSavers plant nearby and move it to Canada. The Christian Science Monitor has an article that points out this is an industry wide phenomenon in the hard candy industry. According to the Monitor, high sugar…

  3. Farm Subsidies, Tariffs and Lifesavers

    TechCentralStation.Com’s Ryan H. Sanger takes down George W. Bush for his recent statements linking farm subsidies, of all things, to the 9/11 terrorists attacks. Sanger reports that at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association meeting in Denver, Bush told the cattlemen that, “It’s in our national security interests that we be able to feed ourselves .…

  4. Clever Conman in Canada

    This story has flown under the radar of the mainstream news in the United States, but a U.S. citizen in custody in Canada claims to be a U.S. Naval intelligence offer who had foreknowledge of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The stories about this man claim that sometime in August he put his warning about…

  5. The Real Danger Facing America — Softwood Imports from Canada

    In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration took action in October to rid America of the scourge of softwood imports from Canada. On Halloween night, the Bush administration imposed 12.58 percent “anti-dumping” duty on top of an already announced 19.31 percent “countervailing duty” which was levied in August. What’s the problem…

  6. Companies Steel Themselves Against Competition

    For the past several months U.S. steel companies, their unions and Democrats on Capitol Hill have been whining that steel manufacturers from Brazil, Japan, Russia and other countries are “dumping” steel in the United States. These critics charge that companies from these nations are unfairly selling steel at a price that is simply too low…