Here's an interesting article on the incredible evolving media narrative about the US economy ever since Barack Obama won re-election. Before the election, when good economic news helps the incumbent: In fact, one month before the election, the Times ran a story...
Year: 2012
UN chief errs again on climate change
Developed nations are not guilty of causing the climate change that developing nations claim they are suffering.
Let’s Get Fracking, and Slash Our Gas Bills: State backing for the shale revolution is what Britain’s economy has been crying out for
Yet still the environmental movement, deep in bed with the subsidised renewable energy industry, wants to impede shale gas, fearful that it might succeed. Until recently it looked as if the Government’s energy policy was to go beyond picking winners to pick losers – how else do you describe an policy that hands out the most money to the most expensive ways of generating power? – and even ban winners
Environmentalist Power Trips Harm Poor Countries: Kyoto Protocol expiration won’t provide reality check
The real danger is treaties, laws, regulations and taxes imposed in the name of preventing global-warming catastrophes that exist only in computer models, horror movies and environmentalist press releases. These political schemes will exacerbate and perpetuate poverty, disease, unemployment and economic stagnation. That is neither just nor sustainable.
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Canada in 2073—Will There Be One?
“Ahead, Thar Be Dragons.” The world of 2023 is a scary place. One major war is raging, with others probably on the way. The Pax Americana that has given us freedom of the seas and allowed global trade to flourish might be breaking down. International piracy,...
World Cries out for Canadian LNG, “No Business Case” Feds have Totally Failed Us
Today, Canada’s natural gas sector is seeing its decade of darkness due to federal policy. And it’s not because the opportunity wasn’t there. It was because our government allowed its ideology, and that of its anti-oil and gas friends (also known as protestors) to...
After Sandy, No One Lined Up for Wind Turbines: The greens want to go ‘beyond oil,’ but without it we’d freeze in the dark.
Last year, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged $50 million to the Sierra Club for its “beyond coal” campaign. But the mayor hasn’t—and won’t—be directing any cash to the club’s parallel “beyond oil” campaign.
Who speaks for First Nations in creating the post-Indian Act landscape?
National Chief Shawn Atleo is calling for more First Nations involvement in re-designing the post-Indian Act world. Atleo chastised the federal government's approach towards First Nations by calling it, "limited, narrow, piecemeal and unilateral." He also wants to...
A New Approach to Environment and Fisheries Management (Sopuck): Less Red Tape and a Better Environment
PowerPoint slides which accompanied Robert Sopuck’s speech A New Approach to Environment and Fisheries Management; Less Red Tape and a Better Environment that he gave in Winnipeg on November 2, 2012. He is Member of Parliament for Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette.
Can’t Pick and Choose Free Speech: U of M missed opportunity to lead
A barometer on university campus freedom of expression gave the University of Manitoba a bad grade, albeit not the worse, which means Manitoba missed out on an opportunity to lead on university free speech.
Canadian and U.S. negotiators must highlight developing swindle at this month’s U.N. Climate Change Conference
…if a Cancun-based treaty became international law, GHG reduction would proceed in developing nations only to the extent that it does not interfere with their “first and overriding priorities” of “social and economic development and poverty eradication.” Developed countries would be held to their emission reduction obligations regardless of the impact on their societies.
The growing storm – Obama re-election a threat to Canadian climate and energy policy
In Obama’s second four years, we are likely to get more of what we saw the first time around. Only this time, it will almost certainly be more severe since the President will not have to face the electorate again.
Westerners more likely to buy NetFlix
Here is another interesting result from the CRTC’s “Communications Monitoring Report”. Western Canadians subscribe to NetFlix in far greater numbers than Ontarians. The subscription percentage is 71% higher for Albertans (14.5%) compared to Ontarians (8.5%). ...
The Father of Managed Competition
The beauty of this system is that it puts cost cutting pressure on the vast layers of middle managers and supervisors that are a fixture of the traditionally rule bound, bureaucratic and process-oriented government systems we still see mostly everywhere in the public sector, cities no exception.
Let’s Focus on Transparency First: Without transparency reducing political donations limits is a red herring
Instead of focusing on reducing the limits on political donations, Alberta should strive to raise their transparency.