Sadly, there are many factors affecting climate change that the IPCC ignore or underplay to achieve the political result that human CO2 is the sole cause. [T]hey ignore many variables and admit they know little about the ones they study. It is a total abrogation of scientific and social responsibility to let these results form the basis for draconian and destructive energy and environmental policies.
Year: 2010
The Housing Bubble: The Economists Should Have Known
“It is truly astonishing to watch how determined the economics orthodoxy is to defend its inexcusable, economy-wrecking performance in the run up to the financial crisis. Most people who preside over disasters, say from a boating accident or the failure of a venture, spend considerable amounts of time in review of what happened and self-recrimination. Yet policy-making economists have not only seemed constitutionally unable to recognize that their programs resulted in widespread damage, but to add insult to injury, they insist that they really didn’t do anything wrong.”
There Is Too Much Edu-Babble: Part 10 in an ongoing excerpt series on education from the Frontier Centre
Students, parents and teachers are being overwhelmed by “edu-babble.”
‘Real Warriors Hold Jobs’
“Whatever we agree, or don’t, about the history of Canadian aboriginals, or about their current station, and what they do or don’t need, are or aren’t entitled to, we can all surely concede one fact: For thousands of years, Indians in North America — or, if you prefer, Turtle Island — somehow managed to get by. How well? That, like everything else, is up for interpretation.”
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Celebrating Manitoba’s Fisher River First Nation
Indigenous communities in Manitoba face some of the greatest obstacles. Over the years, when the UN Human Development Index was applied to First Nation communities across Canada, Manitoba First Nations often ranked lowest. So, it’s important to highlight some of the...
UK-Canada Nuclear Fusion Project Could Generate Jobs, Unite Climate Alarmists and Skeptics
For a long time, nuclear fusion has been a sci-fi fantasy; the holy grail of energy production that involves the combination of multiple atomic nuclei to generate energy. It’s the same process used by the sun to create energy, and the opposite of nuclear fission,...
Public Scepticism Prompts Science Museum to Rename Climate Exhibition
“The museum is abandoning its previous practice of trying to persuade visitors of the dangers of global warming. It is instead adopting a neutral position, acknowledging that there are legitimate doubts about the impact of man-made emissions on the climate.”
How The Great Recession Concentrated Public Minds: Wage Freezes in New Brunswick, Ontario and Manitoba Will Help Balance the Books
Recently announced wage freezes for government employees in New Brunswick, Ontario and Manitoba will help address the long-term problem of rapid pay escalation in the public sector.
Canada’s Forests are Getting Healthier: More of Canada’s forests are being certified by third parties as sustainably managed
Canada is doing an excellent job of protecting its vast forest resources. FC062
Is Our Food Safety System Broken?: It is more accurate to say that it has not yet been built.
Slyvain Charlebois argues the debate on food safety should not about the number of inspectors hired but how to build food safety systems that serve the health requirements of Canadian consumers.
Can Property Rights Heal Native Reserves?
“Mr. Flanagan has long confounded his critics by adopting unexpected positions and he’s back with an important new book that advocates a simple legislative change that presents perhaps the single best opportunity to improve living standards on native reserves across this country.”
The Shape of Tomorrow’s Farming
Farming intensity must triple on the best land, in order to protect the poorer land which houses three-fourths of the wild species. Good farmland will become even more important, as one of the scarcest resources.
Manitoba First Nations Face Most Oversight By Ottawa
“With financial woes at Peguis First Nation again raising questions about the state of band management in Manitoba, new figures released by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada show 21 bands are currently managed entirely by a third party such as an accounting firm or are co-managed in partnership with the chief and council.”
It’s Always About Ann, Isn’t It?: Ann Coulter promotes Ann Coulter, but that doesn’t excuse trempling free expression
No one has perfect knowledge, which is why trying to shut down Ann Coulter is a mistake.
Change Prices, Not Attitudes, to Conserve Water: Market Pricing is the Key to Efficient, Sustainable Water Use
By eliminating water subsidies and eliminating flat rate pricing for water, we can do more to promote conservation than millions of dollars worth of public education campaigns.