“There is no shortage of water. Amounts available vary regionally and change over time as precipitation amounts vary. Demand also changes with increases in population and economic development. Crude estimates indicate water use per person is 15 liters in undeveloped countries and approximately 900 liters in developed countries. Throughout history humans have developed remarkable techniques and technologies to deal with these issues. Few of these attempted to reduce demand, most worked to increase supply.”
Year: 2010
Defying Trend, Canada Lures More Migrants
“As waves of immigrants from the developing world remade Canada a decade ago, the famously friendly people of Manitoba could not contain their pique. What irked them was not the Babel of tongues, the billions spent on health care and social services, or the explosion of ethnic identities. The rub was the newcomers’ preference for “M.T.V.” — Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver — over the humble prairie province north of North Dakota, which coveted workers and population growth.”
Report Pans ‘Stealth Equalization’;: Analysis Think-tank says fed jobs in New Brunswick, other provinces amount to additional transfer of money from Ottawa
“With the third-largest per-capita concentration of federal government jobs in Canada, New Brunswick is a “have-not” province that’s dependent on a hidden system of “stealth equalization” from Ottawa, says a new report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.”
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Leon Fontaine – A Passionate Canadian Thought Leader – RIP
This past weekend, we learned of the tragic and unexpected passing of Pastor Leon Fontaine at 59 years of age. Leon was a gifted leader playing many roles both nationally and internationally. He was, with his wife Sally, the senior Pastors at Springs Church with...
Public Inquiries and Public Trust
Testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission reveals the case for government invoking the Emergencies Act is either weak or very weak. The Prime Minister was, in fact, opposed to members of his cabinet or senior public health officials meeting with protest...
After the Indian Act: First Nations need something better
It is great that the leader of the Assembly of First Nations is calling for an end to the Indian Act, but that is only the start of the conversation as the important part is to replace it with a better system.
Climate Change and Precipitation – Another IPCC And Climate Science Failure
“Focus of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is almost exclusively on temperature, particularly on warming. That alone should condemn their work because different weather has different implications for different activities and in most cases temperature is of little concern.”
Media Climate Change Bias; Only Melting Ice Makes News: Melting ice has two attractions for global alarmists. It is supposedly a sign of warmer temperatures and it plays to people’s unjustified fears about rising sea levels
“While the mainstream media ignore cold and recent changes in sea ice, it’s a good time to give an overview of different ice conditions. Melting ice has two attractions for global alarmists. It is supposedly a sign of warmer temperatures and it plays to people’s unjustified fears about rising sea levels. This is why it was a central part of Gore’s movie, ‘An Inconvenient Truth.'”
On Infrastructure, Time to Dump the Ideology
“President Obama has proposed a new $50 billion infrastructure program that would expand and repair highways and transit systems, while refurbishing airport runways and implementing long-overdue air-traffic-control reforms to improve the reliability of air travel.”
Cuba to Cut State Jobs in Tilt Toward Free Market
“Cuba will lay off more than half a million state workers and try to create hundreds of thousands of private-sector jobs, a dramatic attempt by the hemisphere’s only Communist country to shift its nearly bankrupt economy toward a more market-oriented system.”
Welcome Return Of The Prodigal True Liberal
“Fraser wants the Liberal Party to return to “liberal values”. But what are they? Has any ideological label been more contested, coveted and contorted than the term liberal?
Cut-Rate Tuition is a Bad Deal for Taxpayers: Low Tuition in Manitoba and Quebec Does Little to Promote Access
Students love the low tuition fees of Manitoba and Quebec, but this policy strains provincial budgets while doing little to boost participation in post-secondary education.
First Nation Fraud Case Encouraging
A case involving fraudulent use of treaty land entitlement money on one Saskatchewan First Nation shows there is plenty of work to do in ensuring governance and better democracy for Native communities.
Seven Myths About Green Jobs
This study, by the Climate describes seven myths about “green jobs” initiatives that can lead people to falsely believe that government mandates, subsidies and forced technological innovations will bolster economic performance by creating “green jobs. In fact, the paper argues that massive green jobs initiatives are likely to hinder future economic growth and result in net job destruction.