http://www.margretkopala.com/ Articles by Margret Kopala en-us Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:00:00 PST Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:15:01 PST http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification FirstPage margret@margretkopala.com info@ursatech.com 5 http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk01jul09.htm Why legalization will increase drug use, addiction and crime... July 2009 margret@margretkopala.com (Margret Kopala) http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk01jul09.htm http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk22may09.htm Don Coxe has it exactly right when he ties today's economic woes to low fertility rates rather than Wall Street. But he has it exactly wrong when he suggests that increasing immigration is the answer... 22 May 2009 margret@margretkopala.com (Margret Kopala) http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk22may09.htm http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk28feb09.htm Last summers New Yorker piece entitled Dr. Kush describes how medical marijuana is transforming Americas pot industry. In the land where referendums are authorizing the use and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes, author David Samuels describes how 200,000 physician-sanctioned California pot users are serviced by a robust subculture of growers, dispensers, brokers, and doctors... 28 Feb 2009 margret@margretkopala.com (Margret Kopala) http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk28feb09.htm http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk17feb09.htm A recent study cites Ottawa as the prototype for Ontarios new knowledge economy but Premier Dalton McGuinty might have saved taxpayers a few million dollars by simply noticing that IKEA has announced plans to expand its Pinecrest premises into North Americas largest. After all, who is buying Ikea product, if not the 40 percent of Ottawans who comprise its civil service, high tech, think tank and other members of the knowledge economys creative classes... 17 Feb 2009 margret@margretkopala.com (Margret Kopala) http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk17feb09.htm http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk31jan.htm Stephen Harper peered into Nouriel Roubinis The Twelve Steps to Financial Disaster and his conversion on the road to Damascus was complete. Given the negative reaction to his budget, including Conservative, the prime minister is likely experiencing Gulliverian levels of frustration only made tolerable by the knowledge the Lilliputians, not having read their Roubini, arent making runs on the banks. But then even the New York University economist who accurately predicted the global economic meltdown concedes Canadas status as a G7 country with the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio. This surely means last-in first-out of the downturn, even with multi-billion-dollar deficits... 31 Jan 2009 margret@margretkopala.com (Margret Kopala) http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk31jan09.htm http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk19jan09.htm In December of 2005, Lorraine Johnson and Shelina Palmer got married. It was barely five months since Canada legalized same-sex marriage and even though their fundamentalist Mormon sect apparently forbade homosexual activity, the need to tie the knot was clearly urgent. Of course, three of Winston Blackmores American-born celestial wives, mothers to 16 of his children, had been issued deportation orders earlier in the year so perhaps there was no time to waste. After all, immigration officers seemed intent on standardizing rules that already applied to Muslims trying to import wives into Canada... 19 Jan 2009 margret@margretkopala.com (Margret Kopala) http://www.margretkopala.com/news/mk19jan09.htm