According to their own financial statements, Sierra Club received $758,608 in 2004 and $574,431 in 2003 in what it labels government contracts.
Year: 2005
Archaic Funding of Education – With Denis Owens
CJOB Radio
If you want to Succeed, Follow Us Down Under
For so long simply seen as an adventure playground for gap year students or a breeding ground for sportsmen, Australia has now graduated into the world of big players.
Medicare Status Quo Argument Ailing
Despite the repeated affirmations of the medicare establishment that there is no serious academic research establishing that private care can help lower prices or improve efficiency, all this proves is their ignorance of the very literature they’re citing.
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Let’s Celebrate Reaching Global Population of Eight Billion
Recently, the United Nations estimated that the population of Planet Earth had reached eight billion souls. Despite the chatter of the highly subsidized climate doomster complex this is quite an achievement - it certainly indicates that the carrying capacity of our...
China’s “Truckers’ Convoy”
Anti-lockdown protests are now taking place across China - the Chinese equivalent of our Truckers’ Convoy. The protests are a reaction to the brutal policies that literally lock people in their apartments, when even one infection is detected. As in Canada, when...
Mosquito Control With Malathion: Are There Public Health Consequences?
The spraying of malathion to control mosquitoes is a safe, effective means of preventing the spread of disease.
Saving Rural Canada: It Takes a Town
If the business, professional and political classes of a small town work together, if they are prepared to take risks, and if they can convince the rest of the citizenry to take risks with them, then that community can tap into emerging technologies and alternative markets to rebrand and revitalize their town.
Free to Drive
It’s no accident that bus and subway riders are mostly young and poor. They take public transit not because it’s the better way, but because they can’t afford to drive. The moment they get a little older and a little better off, they move to the suburbs and buy a car.
Jurassic Twilight – Farm Monopolists
DINOSAURS live. Two have been roaming the Canadian prairies and parts of Australia, respectively, for decades, and are still at it: the two countries' legally enforced wheat-export monopolies. But till when? American farmers think it is time they were extinct. They...
Lib Dems to float Royal Mail Sell-off
Mr Lamb believes that he can win over activists, generally more leftwing than MPs, by showing that selling shares to employees would safeguard the dwindling post office network and give employees much more of a say in the way the business is run.
Moveon Beyond Kyoto
Even though it is widely agreed that the Kyoto-mandated reductions will not be sufficient to have any measurable effect on global temperatures, just agreeing to reduce seems “greener” than any solution that relies on technology, since technology is perceived to be the root of all environmental troubles anyway.
Shrink Waiting Lists the British Way
Tony Blair’s Health Minister
‘Spending High, Services Poor’
“Canadians continue to not get value for their money,” said Nadeem Esmail, co-author of the report, released yesterday by the Fraser Institute think-tank.
Postl’s list: Don’t Count on Accuracy
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority CEO Dr. Brian Postl has been named head of some federal health-care wait list commission by Prime Minister Paul Martin.