“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.”
Year: 2010
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.”
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.
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Military Conquest is Meaningless Without True Social Renewal
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
What Life Looks Like Outside COVID-19 Hysteria
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
Australia and Canada’s Indigenous People: Parallels in Dysfunction: Transfers breeding dependency
The only sustainable way to build capabilities in indigenous communities is to pursue economic and social development, through engagement in the real economy, argues Australian Tahlia Maslin.
Sizable Minority of Reserve Residents Do Not Feel Safe From Arbitrary Government: Basic human rights of all band members should be respected
Evidence from the Third Annual Aboriginal Governance Index reveals that through the use of Band Council Resolutions (BCRs), a good minority still say their band is removing members it “does not like.” FC066
Understanding Profits
“Water services should meet the cost of the capital they employ (that is to say, make normal profits), just like other utilities such as electricity and gas. If they don’t, capital will be misallocated because it could produce more social value in other uses.”
Aboriginal Policy in Australia and Canada: From Handout to Hand-Up
A new study compares Aboriginal policy in Australia and Canada: Bottom-up policy and accountability is key to improvements.
Media Release – Aboriginal Policy in Australia and Canada: From Handout to Hand-Up
A new study compares Aboriginal policy in Australia and Canada: Bottom-up policy and accountability is key to improvements.
Earth Day Predictions 1970
A collection of doomsday predictions pronounced on the first Earth Day.
Why Smart Environmentalists Embrace the Free Market: Take one measure of economic freedom, one measure of environmental performance, and the relationship jumps right out of the page
This plot makes the relationship between economic freedom and environmental performance difficult to ignore. FC065
Con: Earth is Never in Equilibrium
“In a world where we experience temperature changes of tens of degrees in a single day, we treat changes of a few tenths of a degree in some statistical residue, known as the global mean temperature anomaly (GATA), as portents of disaster.”
Nova Scotia’s Public Sector Excesses Borne by Other Canadians
In his recent attack on a study on equalization by the Frontier Centre or Public Policy (Weekend Feedback: Attack on Equalization Off Base, March 27), John Malcom, chief executive officer of the Cape Breton District Health Authority makes a number of errors.