“With a mischievous half-grin on his face, Ezra Levant muses about getting the U.S. to extend the “country of origin labelling” law that’s been applied to Canadian beef to our gasoline, too.”
Year: 2010
Ireland’s Bold Plan: The recovery blueprint reads like a list of supposed political impossibilities..
“The Irish government’s new budget plan, released this week, is a remarkable document. Faced with a huge deficit, skyrocketing debt and unemployment north of 14%, Brian Cowen’s government has responded with a plan that reads like a list of political impossibles.”
IPCC Climate Science Is Fundamentally Wrong: Carbon Footprint is All Wet
“Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science deliberately kept public focus on warmer temperatures and blamed it all on radiative forcing due to CO2. They virtually ignore water in all its forms, partly because terms of reference directed them to only human causes and because any consideration of the role of water destroys the CO2 hypothesis.”
I’ve Seen the Future and the Private Car is Alive and Well: How mobile phones with GPS will make private transport dramatically more efficient
The advent of mobile GPS technology will rapidly bring down the time and effort costs of ride sharing, and may dramatically improve the efficiency of how people use private cars.
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Timeless Wisdom – The Politics of Successful Structural Reform
It’s a well-known pattern in public policy – profligate politicians damaging their economies with out-of-control spending, massive borrowing and higher taxes – inevitably leading to fiscal crisis, sharp declines in growth and ultimately rapidly falling currency value...
Canada’s National Hysteria in the 21st Century
Mass hysteria is the spontaneous manifestation of a particular behaviour by many people. There are numerous historical examples: Middle Age nuns at a convent in France spontaneously began to meow like cats; at another convent, nuns began biting one another. In...
A Tale of Two Legacies; One Positive And Constructive, The Other Negative and Destructive
“As advisor and educator for farmers, foresters and other rural denizens, I found them more environmentally aware and concerned in practical ways than environmentalists. They live in the real world beyond the urban enclaves. They’re more aware and more concerned because it sustains them and their families.”
Private Property Is Nothing To Fear: First Nation should debate property on merits
An economic study of successful First Nations is being held in suspicion through erroneous thinking about the notion of private property.
Voters Are Losing Their Interest in Climate Change
“It’s ironic that the United Nations should be hosting its latest climate negotiations in China. Not only is China now far and away the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide — believed by many (but not me) to cause global warming — China is also the main saboteur of negotiations for a deal to replace the Kyoto accords.”
Decade of the Telecommute
“The rise in telecommuting is the unmistakable message of the just released 2009 American Community Survey data. The technical term is working at home, however the strong growth in this market is likely driven by telecommuting, as people use information technology and communications technology to perform jobs that used to require being in the office.”
‘Honour Killings’ May Be Added To Criminal Code
“The federal government on Monday affirmed its zero-tolerance stance against “honour killing,” declaring such “barbaric cultural practices” as “heinous abuses” that have no place in Canadian society.”
Climate Change; Data Control The Enemy Within
“Science must have accurate and adequate data. It’s the basis for producing or testing theories; without it results are meaningless.”
Bernier Seeks End To $40-billion In Social, Health Transfers To Provinces
“Calling for an end to $40-billion in social and health transfers to the provinces, Maxime Bernier is criticizing his own government’s policies in areas of provincial jurisdiction and laying another plank in his platform for a future Conservative leadership bid.”
Are We Sliding Into A Tyranny Of Good Intentions?
“‘I am of two minds about democracy,’ he writes, ‘and so is everyone else. We all agree that it is the sovereign remedy for corruption, war and poverty in the Third World. We would certainly tolerate no other system in our own country. Yet most people are disenchanted with the way it works. One reason is that our rulers now manage so much of our lives that they cannot help but do it badly. They have overreached. Blunder follows blunder.'”
Black Crosses and Black Deaths: Attacks on coal-mining and use would trample on hopes, progress, living standards and lives
“When we see the Black Crosses, we need to remember the blessings of coal-based electricity: the economic uplift, the enhanced quality of life it provides for millions of working class Americans of every color.”