PowerPoint slides which accompanied Donna Laframboise’s speech The UN’s Climate Change Panel: Activist and Untrustworthy that she gave in Calgary, October 17, 2012.
Year: 2012
Canada, U.S. Struggling to Reach Agreement to Agree on Product Rules
An ambitious plan to harmonize product regulations between Canada and the United States has become all process, few results. But there is hope.
Another Case of Municipal Corruption Highlights Need for Separation Between Council and City Administration
Today I had an article in the Huffington Post on how the City of Phoenix bars municipal politicians from getting directly involved in city operations to reduce the prospects for shading dealings with developers. I mentioned recent cases in Winnipeg and Toronto that may or may not have involved wrong doing. Sure enough, today’s National Post has an article about a Montreal corruption inquiry, in which a powerful Montreal politician has been accused of taking $300,000 in bribes.
Understanding Equalization
Last week, the Globe and Mail ran an article authored by John Ibbitson which profiled David MacKinnon, a Frontier Centre senior fellow and one of the country's leading critics of Canada's equalization program. David's work over the past several years has helped show...
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‘Side Issues’ Result in Much Higher Costs to Our Health and Social Systems
As we enter the year 2022, most Canadians will have lived their entire lives under the shibboleth that says we have the best health-care system in the world. Our beloved medicare is universal in scope, free of charge and offers equal access to all. What country could...
Touted Climate Emergency for Calgary is Deceitful and Undemocratic
Calgary has sworn in its first female mayor. A week earlier, less than 24 hours after winning the mayoral race, she gave her first post-election talk-radio interview to Ryan Jespersen, mostly involving a series of softball questions. He asked her the obligatory woke...
Stranded Oil and Emergency Reserves
Obama needs to adopt an all hands on deck approach of getting stranded North American energy to global markets now!
Why Germany Shuns Canada’s Debt Model
The federal government sends transfers to poorer provincial governments, which spend the money on social programs that would otherwise be beyond their means. Some of those programs – such as Quebec’s daycare and tuition subsidies – are more generous than programs in provinces that don’t qualify for transfers. This is exactly what German taxpayers are warning Ms. Merkel they won’t put up with.
The City that Successfully Outsourced (Almost) Everything
Residents of Sandy Springs, Georgia have tested the limits of municipal outsourcing. Incorportated in 2005, the city has contracted out virtually everything. The only two services that are delivered by the city are police and fire services, because the insurance premiums that would be required of private companies would be prohibitive. Everything else, even licensing, has been contracted out. The sky hasn’t fallen.
How Big Government and Big Business Squeeze Entrepreneurs: It’s one thing for bus drivers and medical staff to need state licenses. But interior designers and florists?
Wisconsin’s Elmer Kilian wants the chance to earn an honest living. So do Nevada’s Lissette Waugh, Florida’s Silvio Membreno and countless other entrepreneurs who have the drive and ability to put themselves and others to work.
The Coming Oil Boom, and Resulting Environmental Battle
Forget America’s fiscal cliff, Europe’s currency troubles or the emerging-markets slowdown. The most important story in the global economy today may well be some good news that isn’t yet making as many headlines – the coming surge in oil production around the world.
Manitoba Fishers Protest Massive Seizure of Mullet
A group of about 35 western Manitoba fishers demonstrated in front of the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corp.’s Transcona plant Monday, protesting the federal agency’s seizure last week of mullet destined for Illinois.
Will satellite bridge the digital divide?
The digital divide refers to the inability of a part of the population to access computers, digital media, and services available through broadband or high-speed internet. Society is divided into those who do have access to digital communications technology and those...
Positive Reality or Fictional Fantasy
Political agendas are now deeply embedded in our schools, in government institutions, in academia, the media, and many other areas of our lives. The challenge is to recognize what is going on and not be swayed.
Is Vancouver Really the Third Most Liveable City on Earth?
The Economist recently ranked Vancouver the third most liveable city on earth. While it certainly is a lovely city with many nearby amenities, it is also the second least affordable city in the English speaking world (surpassed only by Hong Kong). Vancouver is a very liveable city–if you’re wealthy. But for the middle class, it is a completely different story.