As the economic watering hole dries up, the creatures that depend on it are beginning to look at one another differently. But for the greedy, the incompetent, and the outright stupid, it’s a new morning. A shot of redemption is at hand, courtesy of everybody else.
Year: 2008
Media Release: 50% of Canadians’ Wealth is Not Protected from Expropriation
A new study notes that over 50% of the personal wealth held by Canadians is held in real estate – and that it is not protected from expropriation.
It’s Time to Wake Up from Equalization Nightmare
The dream of comparable services for all Canadians has turned into the nightmare of entrenched disparity and dependence. Canada is not made fairer by a system that rewards bad and irresponsible behaviour.
Indian Affairs Must Heed Indigenous Voices On Reform
Indigenous peoples across Canada are interested in creating accountability structures in their communities, but the federal government needs to recognize them.
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
Medical Martial Law – Never Again
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
Voice For The Poor Supports Oilsands
Artificially high energy prices, the work of politicians manipulated by radical environmentalists demonizing energies they don’t like, are therefore “immoral,” and a “de facto regressive tax on the poor. . . . They destroy jobs, erode civil rights gains and force minority and elderly households to choose between food, fuel and medicine.”
U.S. Group Warns Against Carbon Tax
“People of Canada are going to look at the proposals dealing with this economic crisis, such as the carbon tax and the negative impact it can have on an already tenuous economy, and make a decision for what they want their future to be.”
Green-Collar Jobs – Or Con Jobs?
An even bigger problem with the green-collar vision is its ultimate goal: ending our “addiction” to fossil fuels and mandating “sustainable,” hydrocarbon-free lifestyles. Conservation, efficiency and renewables will not bridge this enormous energy gap, certainly not in one decade and probably not in four. To decimate the energy system we have – and claim we can replace it with technologies that don’t yet exist – is delusional and irresponsible.
Poor Families Hurt By High Energy Prices
Innis, refers to himself as an environmentalist, however, in his speech, he dismissed the basic idea of global warming and the negative impact it’s having on the environment. His solution to the energy issue is to promote conservation, increase efficiency and continue to embrace new alternatives- like wind and solar power – all without cutting down energy production in North America. “All energy is good energy,” said Innis.
Alberta Needs Climate Change Criteria: AG
The province made climate change commitments in Albertans and Climate Change: Taking Action, its 2002 climate change plan and in Alberta’s 2008 Climate Change Strategy (which replaced the 2002 plan). To meet these targets, the government now needs to establish criteria for deciding specific actions, develop a master implementation plan, improve the processes for monitoring climate change results and ensure reported data is relevant and reliable, Auditor General Fred Dunn said in the report.
Oil Patch’s New Ally
Alberta’s energy industry has lately been made into an ecological bogeyman by environmentalist groups, portraying the oil sands as a “dirty,” undesirable source because of its carbon footprint. “We say the economic frontier is the last frontier for achieving racial equality in society,” Mr. Innis says. “And access to affordable energy … is what we consider to be the master resource for the economic survival for our community. Rising energy prices represent an immoral war on the poor, because it keeps people poor.”
Robbing Peter to Pay David Suzuki
The environment has become the new reason for interventionist government and proponents quite happily admit the same.
Dysfunctional Democracy On Reserves
When First Nations push for enhanced powers of self-government they need to push for the bastions of good governance too — transparency, accountability and a strict electoral protocol. Until that happens I will not vote in a reserve election. Until the requirements for chieftainship are held to a higher covenant than how many people you know or can influence, I will not vote.
Corporate Canada’s Ladies of the Night
Emergency bailouts are akin to firemen breaking into a house to save its inhabitants, douse the flames and prevent its collapse; they don’t justify similar subsidies to everyone.