Fuzzy thinking and heated politics surround the latest near-death experience of the Canadian Wheat Board. In a Federal Court decision last week, Madame Justice Dolores Hansen ruled the government could not exclude barley from CWB control by changing the regulations...
Year: 2007
‘I Know I Can Do it Better’ Than the Wheat Board
A week after a court ruling blocked a move by Ottawa to eliminate the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly on barley sales, Chad Doerksen is still seething. Had the effort been successful, it would have given Prairie farmers such as Mr. Doerksen the power to sell their...
Two Tiers Better Than One
The average Canadian, if transplanted to Europe, would enjoy more choice and much better access to health care, at a lower total cost.
Cypress Letter
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Sustaining a Pariah State: Pakistan’s Ignominious Alliance in Afghanistan
The United Nations (UN) was born out of an idea for creating a society of nations, a global community, a brotherhood of nations built on a set of higher ideals. These ideals would give rise to a global village with accountability to each other, including social...
The Endemic Path is the Way Out
The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach. But his declaration, paraphrasing President...
The Power of Vested Interests vs The Power of Productivity
I received a generous letter from the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum this week telling me I had been selected as a Young Global Leader 2007 by an international jury presided over by Queen Rania of Jordan. A friend of mine joked that I am now "a dupe of...
26 Organisations Form Global Coalition to Challenge Unjustified Alarmism
The level of misinformation grows daily and the hysteria intensifies. But rational voices are finally to beginning to cut through the propaganda and make themselves heard in an organized way.
Suburban Decline
Decay in city’s middle-class areas casts doubt on affordability index
Not ‘The Hottest Years on Record’
Average global temperatures and carbon dioxide emissions over the past 600 million years show present temperature and CO² levels at low measures on a geological history basis. FC027
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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.
Why There’s Nothing New About Climate Change – PowerPoint
Powerpoint slides from Lunch on Frontier with Historical Climatologist Dr. Tim Ball, January 26th, 2007 in Winnipeg.
Much Hot Air About Global Warming
If Canadians truly believe greenhousegas emissions now threaten the future of the planet, they would give up their SUVs and their 3,000-square-foot vacation pads in Whistler, Muskoka and Canmore.
Peter Miller, Professor of Philosophy, University of Winnipeg
When Manitoba Hydro subsidizes domestic electricity consumption, it means “the biggest piggies get the most slop.” That’s one of many reasons for letting prices rise to market levels.
PowerSmart Pricing in Manitoba -PowerPoint
PowerPoint slides from Winnipeg Breakfast on the Frontier speech on PowerSmart Electricity Pricing by Professor Peter Miller, January 18, 2007