Joel Johannesen
Writer and Executive Editor for ProudToBeCanadian.ca.
PTBC was founded by Mr. Johannesen in 2000.
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Here’s to Your Health
Canada is having elections June 28 2004. So I’m going to trot this theme out again because Canadians who support the Liberal-Left still refuse to believe it, admit it, discuss it, or even look...
Liberals Caught With Misleading Ad. Illegal? Or Merely Immoral?
I came across some very interesting information this afternoon about the latest Liberal attack ad being broadcast on television screens across the land by the governing Liberal Party.
These are the ads in which a...
OOPS! Liberal Pollution is Up!
In their latest ads, the one in which they show a close-up of a handgun pointed at the viewer, the Liberal Party also chose to show this quick picture of nasty pollution.
The implication...
Iraq Good News: Hard to hear when you have no ears.
Saddam Hussein was, among other things a man of fetishes. However, a murderous tyrant with fetishes reveals a more dark side than one can really imagine, or would even want to imagine. Saddam’s fetishes...
Go Ahead. Don’t Vote Liberal. Make My Day.
Only desperation for power would entice otherwise good, honest people to hide the truth, distort an opponent’s political platform so that it looks “scary” or even “dangerous”; and paint a nice, principled, intelligent, thinking,...
I’m scared! Moo!
In a Canadian election campaign, you know that Liberals are on the run when they start using hilariously absurd scare tactics designed to scare dumb Canadians. Dumb is apparently how Liberals see most of...
Liberals Dream of Homosexual Abortions, While Life Goes On
It should hardly surprise anyone when it is found that Canadian Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are somewhat split over issues like abortion and gay marriage. Polls suggest the Canada is somewhat split over these issues. ...
Liberals Have No Health Care Pulse. And Their Pants Are On Fire.
Just yesterday I wrote in my commentary that an alternative for Canada’s moribund health care system is any of the 27 other countries that, like Canada, also have a universal access health system. ...
Jack Layton’s NDP: Position on Issues? Free Munchies For All!
In all the hoopla and excitement surrounding the Canadian election campaign… no let me start again: During the Canadian election campaign so far, we have candidates using the unusual tactic of announcing ways to...
Gary Sinise, Iraq, America, Initiative, Children, Freedom, Love
Good News from Iraq “I have seen their smiling faces and their attempts to say ‘I love you’ in broken English… I saw hope in their eyes and gratitude in their hearts ...
Health Care in Canada: What You Need To Know
Canada is only one of27 countries with universal health care.
Yes, twenty-seven (27!) countries in the free world have universal health care. Here’s a list of countries that have universal health care:
Iceland, Switzerland, Australia, Germany,...
Liberals: Shooting For The Stars
Canadians often point to the fact that in Canada there isn’t the kind of whacky gun ownership that there is in the United States.
In actual fact, gun ownership is high in Canada with per...
“Democratic socialists”, snicker.
Background for Americans: “NDP” stands for “New Democratic Party”, Canada’s extreme left-wing party. A socialist party.
Union members can all decide to join the NDP individually. That’s one thing they’re allowed, by their union,...
South-Left Re-Alignment Alert
Some Canadian political perspective:
Canadians pride themselves on… oh hang on. Oh OK on being profoundly, solidly, proudly, really a lot, without any doubt, mediocre in every which way.
Success in Canada as a nation...
Stephen Harper, Conservative, Would Cut Taxes, Raise Sanity
In coming up with common sense answers to nagging sustained problems created by Liberals in Canada over many years in power which in the process has turned Canada into a laughing stock for Americans,...
