New Canadian Money Blogs

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• 1 NCN // May 29, 2007 at 10:34 pm

  I’ve always had a question about the difference between Canadian politics and US politics. In the US, we have 2 major political policies, one of which (Democrats) are more pro-tax, bigger-government, and another (Republicans) who are generally more anti-tax, smaller-government,. (These are of course generalization. At various times, Democrats might call for tax cuts and smaller govt, and Republicans might increase taxes and bigger govt, but you get the picture.) Now for my question… In Canada, are the political parties divided primarily along financial lines? or social-issue lines? Big-govt vs Small-govt? Take govt sponsored health care… Do both parties think that this is a “good” idea, or is it still up for debate? How about legalized gambling? Is the political scene in Canada as “polarized” as the political scene her in the US? I know these are broad topics, but I’ve always wondered.
  NCN
  (BTW, thanks for continuing to link to me, even though I’m not an awesome Canadian blogger!)

• 2 MillionDollarJourney.com // May 29, 2007 at 10:49 pm

  The Canadian blog world is exploding! Great job on getting the news guys on the map CC. It really makes a difference when a high traffic site sends traffic to a smaller site.

  FT

• 3 Canadian Capitalist // May 29, 2007 at 11:04 pm

  NCN: Canada follows the British Parliamentary system of government, so we have many parties. The four major ones are:

  1. Tories, who are supposedly small government, less taxes and socially conservative.
  2. Liberals, who are sort of centrist, which means trying to be all things to all people.
  3. NDP who want more taxes, more regulation and bigger govt.
  4. Bloc Quebecois, who want to break-up the country the first chance they get.

  We currently have a Tory minority government that could theoretically fall at any time.

  The first thing about Canadian politics is that you would consider every party to be fairly left of the comparable US party. Universal health care is a holy cow that is at least paid lip service to by all parties. I don’t know what you mean by legalized gambling (we have casinos everywhere) but pot is still illegal and gay marriages are legal. I suppose politics isn’t as polarized here but the big current issues are the Canadian involvement in Afghanistan and climate change.

• 4 FinancialJungle.com // May 29, 2007 at 11:12 pm

  Thank you very much for the mention.

  I’m so nervous, as I’ve never pushed the throttle this far before. Hopefully my host provider is well equipped to handle referrals from CanadianCapitalist.com tomorrow.

• 5 FourPillars // May 29, 2007 at 11:39 pm

  Thanks a lot for the mention CC.

  Bernstein’s book was actually only the inspiration for the name of my blog, most of my inspiration came from your blog as well as MillionDollarJourney’s blog.

  Mike

• 6 Canadian Capitalist // May 29, 2007 at 11:53 pm

  FJ: Honestly, you are seriously overestimating this blog’s reach. Finances isn’t all that popular a topic. I should have started blogging about hockey

• 7 Phil S // May 29, 2007 at 11:59 pm

  To add to what CC said about political parties, the Conservative Party of Canada is a party created by the recent merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Alliance (formerly Reform Party). Personally, I don’t like to call the new Conservative Party “Tories” because I used to occasionally support the Tories (Progressive Conservatives) but I can’t stand the Reform Party or Alliance or whatever they choose to call themselves, post merger.

  Just like you said about the Republican Party, the Conservative Party is supposedly about small government, lower taxes. However, in reality they’re on a pork barrel spending program and they government has been increasing correspondingly, their promised tax cuts never materialized and some supposed tax “loopholes” were closed off by the so-called “Conservative Party”.

  For disclosure, my own personal views are all about smaller government and lower taxes, but I am a swing voter and do not hold a membership to any particular party.

  The financial side of medicare (medical insurance) continues to be the “sacred cow”, but medical services in this country really sucks and continues to get worse. Sure we get free medical coverage but we have waiting lists for 2.5 yrs on average to get things like knee surgeries, specialists like obstetricians are almost non-existent and no family physicians that I’ve called up are accepting new patients. The overwhelming majority of our recent graduates of our medical schools all head down stateside for their careers and that’s the perfect indication that our medical system is, in my words, “BROKEN”. The average voter doesn’t know that we already have an unofficial “two-tiered medical system” today because if a professional hockey player blows up his knee, do you think he gets on the 2.5 yr waiting list to get knee surgery? Why don’t we just call a spade a spade and get on with reforming our two-tiered medical system to make it official and improve the system. In my opinion, private medical care would kill two birds with one stone! Private care would take some of the load off of the public service and have it all paid for by Canada’s wealthy while they continue to support the public system through their taxes. Also, private care could offer the kinds of competitive salaries that would keep our newly graduated doctors to stay in the country.

  Anyways, thanks for my opportunity to rant! The delivery of medical service in this country has been my pet peeve for decades and I can’t find a political party who is willing to admit that there is already two tiered medical service in Canada and will legitimize it to allow it to properly flourish.

• 8 Mike // May 30, 2007 at 7:50 am

  CC, you’re right about not many people being into finances.

  I think if you are trying to make money blogging you should focus on sports, politics or something like how to make money on Ebay

• 9 The Financial Blogger // May 30, 2007 at 8:14 am

  I actually feel that you can learn much more reading CC’s post than reading any blogs about sports or politics. Newspaper are doing the job just fine. Hopefully we can all make money with our blogs at some point!
  FB

• 10 Canadian Dream // May 30, 2007 at 11:58 am

  FB,

  Most blogs never make more than $10/month with ads and for those that do very few can make any significant money with it. I think we all do this mostly for fun. Sure Google is going to send me a cheque in a few days but I don’t expect to see those all that often.

  Perhaps the thing I like the most with my blog is publishers sending me review copies of books. I get to read something new for free that I would likely read any way.

  CD

• 11 hepman // May 30, 2007 at 4:36 pm

  With regards to Phil’s comments on the healthcare system. While I agree it’s not perfect; you will probably wait for non life threatening surgeries and their is a scarcity of GP’s, at least everybody has access to basic and emergency services (unlike the US where some 40 million people have no health care to speak of). I see no problem with allowing some private care options so long as the public system isn’t negatively impacted as a result.

• 12 The Financial Blogger // May 30, 2007 at 7:45 pm

  Hi CD,

  I know that most of us won’t make money out of our blogs. I did start my blog for fun too (I don’t even put adds for the moment). However, it doesn’t cost much to dream about it
  After all, Johnchow.com and many other are making a killing.

  Hey CC,
  I hope I’ll be part of your next New Canadian Money Blog ! Any comments are also welcome.

  Cheers,
  FB.

• 13 The Money Diva // May 30, 2007 at 8:27 pm

  CC,
  Your periodic posts about new Canadian blogs are great! One suggestion… perhaps you would consider updating the information in your “Canadian Financial Blogs” under the Resources section?
  Cheers!
  MD:)

• 14 Canadian Capitalist // May 30, 2007 at 11:31 pm

  FB: I’ll be happy to mention your blog in the next round up.

  MD: I usually update the blog page every month or so. So much to do, so little time…

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