Award winning Princeton University Physicist Dr. Will Happer, who was reportedly fired by former Vice President Al Gore in 1993 for failing to adhere to Gore’s scientific views, has now declared man-made global warming fears “mistaken.”
Year: 2008
Top 10 Dud Global Warming Predictions
Lesson: Something is wrong with warming models that predict warming in a cooling world, especially when we’re each year pumping out even more greenhouse gases.
How the Welfare State Supplanted Christmas Cheer
A look at how Victorian England solved social problems and provided social services opens the government-centric Canadian debate wider than usual.
Health Care System in Western Europe More Efficient than Ours
Everyone has an opinion about health care. If I've learned anything from writing this column it's that seniors are fiercely protective of our health care system. Many of the seniors that I talk to believe we have the best health care in the world. Are they right?...
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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...
China Should Send Western Planners Home
Generally, Chinese urban planning policies have been a substantial contributor to the nation’s rising wealth. It is to be hoped that the advice of the western planners will continue to be respectfully listened to and largely ignored.
Stimulus You Can Believe In
We know that stimulus can generally come in two forms, direct government spending or tax reform. We also know that spending, especially well-thought-out and appropriate spending on infrastructure, takes time to plan and even more time to implement.
Food For Thought
Many people think that Canada’s high standing on the recent PISA tests means that Canadian students are doing well academically. But there is more to this story than meets the eye. In fact, the PISA tests say nothing about advanced academic learning – like, say, the ability to read sophisticated text or explain E=MC2. Rather, the tests measure how well students can use very simple arithmetic and literacy skills to solve everyday problems.
Moving on Through Hayek
Hayek’s insights into the reasons for government failure remain as relevant to economic and social policymaking today as they were to exposing the catastrophic defects inherent in socialist central planning more than half a century ago. His ideas do not provide ready-made solutions for economic and social problems. But they do offer basic principles to help us set realistic policies and to cope with the difficulties inherent in creating institutions and regulations that will achieve their objectives.
More Culture Not Necessarily the Answer
Rather than focus on increased cultural programming to improve academic performance among First Nations and other under-performing groups, schools should look to successful models where higher expectations and core competencies are emphasized.
Pre-industrial CO2 Levels were About the Same as Today
Authorities told us pre-industrial atmospheric levels of CO2 were approximately 100 parts per million (ppm) lower than the present 385 ppm. They are wrong. The pre-industrial level is at least 50 ppm higher than the level put into the computer models that produce all future climate predictions.
Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts
The Canada West Foundation (CWF) has canvassed 25 leading economists from the four westernmost provinces and created a report called Taking Action on the Economy, a compendium of thoughts on the right way for the federal government to design an economic stimulus...
A Bunch of Have Beens
Lorrie Goldstein and Paul Rutherford try to answer the question, what’s equal about equalization?
Prescriptions for our Slowing Economy
The federal government should avoid the temptation to assist specific sectors of the economy, such as auto and forestry that must downsize in the face of permanent reductions in the demand for their products.