Carney: Get ready for the rebound

"For households, that means remembering that today’s interest rates are far from normal and continually assessing whether their debt loads will be manageable once borrowing costs rise. For businesses, it means investing aggressively in machinery and equipment that will help them become more productive and competitive, to mitigate the fact weaker demand around the world and a strong currency could impede Canadian exports for years." Read the full article

Hypocrites in the world, unite! unite!

It was written in the Globe and Mail on Wednesday : "Quebec’s Orthodox Jewish community appeared for the first time on Wednesday before a National Assembly committee, taking up an unexpected cause – fighting a bill that would ban the wearing of the Muslim niqab when receiving government services." Read the full article

Not surprisingly, the two top contenders in the category of "the most passionate collective misogyny", are now supporting each other's causes!

I do believe in freedom of choice and I do not support any law that attempts to force people to wear (or not to wear) certain type of clothings (I postpone the real argument against the niqab for another occasion). However, niqab, which covers not only the face of the woman behind it, but her identity as well, is an exception. If someone is benefiting from a government service (which has been paid for by all citizens), the provider of that service has to be able to identify the one who is receiving the service. It is that simple.

Moreover, do these groups - who are accusing the government of infringing their liberty - really believe in people's right to chose their own clothings?!!

I would simply give these hypocrites the right to wear the niqab, if they publicly announce that they, too, respect the right of every women, anywhere around the world, to wear what they want, where they want!

The unusual support of Muslim hardliners by their Jewish counterparts should serve as a reminder to moderate Muslims and Jews that they are much closer to each other, than they are to the extremist factions of their own religions.