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Year: 2007
Schools Must Warn of Gore Climate Film Bias
A British Judge agrees that Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth is politically biased and contains serious scientific inaccuracies and ‘sentimental mush’.
The Worst Policy Decision Yet
Political interference in Manitoba hydro has ridden rough shod over the corporations’ preferences, leading to technically inferior design solutions.
Canadian Airline Competition More Pie in the Sky than Open Sky
Buy low, sell high; a penny saved is a penny earned; never let New Democrats run the province’s finances. Those are a few common-sense nuggets that the economically astute should agree with. And here’s another one: open skies are great for airline passengers. In a...
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What Must Be Done to Curb Canada’s Household Debt
Canada is struggling economically. From inflation and deficits to investment and employment, everything that should be up is down, and everything that should be down is up. One striking symptom of economic rot is household debt, which is rising faster than incomes....
Crown Utilities’ Unfair Advantages Reduce Competition, Innovation
Largely unique among state-owned enterprises, ‘SEOs’, worldwide, Canadian Crown corporations have two key advantages over current and future private sector competitors: non-taxable status and access to low-cost public sector borrowing rates. Other implicit edges...
The Rock Takes Ice Crisis in Stride
Newfoundlanders are crying, laughing and carrying on while the rest of the country frets about more than 100 vessels stuck in the ice off the province's northern shore, says veteran fisherman Jack Troake. It is common that boats would become lodged between ice pans...
Is Classroom Global Warming Preaching Indoctrinating the Next Generation?
Do you know what your children are learning in school about climate change? Have you ever looked at their textbooks? Is it education or indoctrination? How accurate are the facts? How much is it an ideological or a political message? Is it a balanced curriculum...
Why Aboriginals Need Human Rights
A Parliamentary bill that will mandate the inclusion of First Nations in the Canadian Human Rights Act should be passed without delay. It will give aboriginals a long-denied right of appeal against the arbitrary use of political power.
Politicians ‘Missing the Point’ on Hydro, Say Experts
The leaders of Manitoba’s three major political parties have debated public ownership of Manitoba Hydro over the past few days but it’s a debate that misses the point, says Energy Probe‘s Tom Adams.
Diverse Choices Give Schools Personal Touch
New families often surprised at what is offered
Relax, the Planet is Fine
Money is partly to blame for the global warming hysteria, Professor Richard Lindzen says
Why So Gloomy?
Judging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhouse gas emissions are contributing at some level. Both of these statements are almost...
Polar Bear as Poster Animal
The Inuit respond to Polar Bear politics in the United States.
Global Warming? Do the Math
“UN Report Proves Canada Must Act Now On Climate Change,” trumpeted the headline of a Liberal party press release on Friday, timed to correspond with the release of yet another alarmist UN summary on climate change. “Canada must act aggressively now to avert the...