San Francisco, by all accounts a liberal city of diverse communities, is in the grips of what by many is seen as a spree of racist attacks against its Black and Asian residents. According to some reports, anti-Asian crimes have more than doubled while hate crimes...
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Manitoba: Beware the Puffball Economy
The Manitoba and federal governments have recently disagreed on the population of the province, a dispute that could lessen the transfer payments Manitoba receives, overwhelmingly from taxpayers in other provinces. Manitoba Finance Minister Jennifer Howard feels...
Ballot initiatives and Canadian politics
Many Canadian observers would be amazed at the number and breadth of ballot initiatives that will go before American voters tomorrow. The election of a president is not the only exciting aspect of tomorrow's vote. Dozens of states will be putting questions before...
Coal-Fired Plants Mothballed by Gas Glut
In its heyday, the giant W.H. Sammis power station was a workhorse, cranking out electricity around the clock. But FirstEnergy Corp. FE -0.52%now plans to idle the coal-fired power plant on the Ohio River and run it only when there is exceptional need for electricity.
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Europe’s Brain-Dead Right: Nobody should be surprised if voters also give Angela Merkel and David Cameron the boot at the next ballot.
Readers presumably understand that Europe’s economic crisis is also the crisis of social democracy—of the idea that markets must be made to co-exist with high levels of taxation, regulation, unionization, welfare spending and subsidized health care and education. Eutopia may be nice in theory; it may even work for a while. But eventually social-democratic policies will lead to economic stagnation, policy paralysis and national bankruptcy on the continental scale we are witnessing today.
Gillard Faces Tax Fight as Labor Loses New South Wales Ballot
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard faces a fight over her plans to tax carbon emissions and mining profits after her Labor party was defeated in elections in New South Wales, the country’s most populous state.
Human Caused Global Warming – The Biggest Deception in History? (Dr. Tim Ball)
PowerPoint slides which accompanied the Lunch on the Frontier speech by Dr. Tim Ball in Winnipeg February 9, 2011.
Global Warming – Taking Our Eyes off the Ball
…when money is allocated and attention prioritised to making contingency plans for vague hypothetical scenarios in the distant future, real priorities are neglected and real risks overlooked.
The Victoria Herald-Sun has run an article that asks if the global warming fixation of the Green Party of Australia and the green movement in general is responsible for increasing the damage done by heavy rains and flooding in Queensland http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/greens-be-dammed-we-need-protection/story-fn6bn88w-1225992915021
Tim Ball on Our Cooling Atmosphere
Dr. Tim Ball’s PowerPoint slides from the 6th Annual Friends of Science Luncheon, Calgary, May 21, 2009.
Advice For Ontario: Play hardball
The move would be provocative. It would be parochial. It could spark a serious federal-provincial clash. But maybe Premier Dalton McGuinty needs to cause a little trouble in Ottawa, says economist Hugh Mackenzie. Asking for a fair deal for Ontario hasn’t done much good. So here is Mackenzie’s idea: McGuinty should serve notice to the Prime Minister that Ontario intends to opt out of the Employment Insurance system and set up its own program.
Climate is a Generalist Discipline (Tim Ball)
Dr. Tim Ball’s speech given at the International Climate Change Conference, New York City, March 3, 2008 included these powerpoint slides.
A Thread Down a Football Field
An analysis of why the west side transmission line in Manitoba is sub-optimal environmental and energy policy.
Tim Ball, Historical Climatologist
Canada’s most courageous global warming skeptic reviews the evidence on carbon dumping and climate change, and assesses the prospects for intelligent, fact-based climate science free of politicized charades.