The introduction to John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
Year: 2017
Teaching the Residential School Story
Canada’s sad Indian Residential School history is by now very familiar to Canadians, and it is increasingly being taught to our children in school. This is both necessary and proper. A caring and compassionate society should know its history, warts and all. But the...
Provinces Can Learn About Debt from their Municipalities
As a parent, I have been able to learn from my children. I’ve learned restraint. I’ve found that children are different, and that they still come back to me after they have left the house for guidance and advice. That surprised me, but learning is learning. Maybe it’s...
Dr. Gerry Bowler, senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, joined the Danielle Smith show to talk about the "Halloween costume conundrum."
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No Evidence of Climate Crisis
In his annual State of the Climate report published on April 14, 2022, Dr. Ole Humlum, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oslo, examined detailed patterns in temperature changes in the atmosphere and oceans together with trends in climate impacts. Many of these...
It Is Time to Move On
I wrote an opinion column immediately following the May 27, 2021 announcement of the “shocking discovery of 215 bodies found in a mass grave at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.” In that column, I correctly stressed the need to wait for real...
More Solar Jobs is a Curse, Not a Blessing
Citing U.S. Department of Energy data, the New York Times recently reported that the solar industry employs far more Americans than wind or coal: 374,000 in solar versus 100,000 in wind and 160,000 in coal mining and coal-fired power generation. Only the natural gas...
IP Rights Promote Innovation and Prosperity
Artists, inventors, and organizations of all stripes are joining hands on Wednesday April 26 to celebrate the contributions that Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) have made in driving limitless human innovation. According to the World Intellectual Property...
Media Release – Property Rights Alliance celebrates World IP Day with an Open Letter
Property Rights Alliance celebrates World IP Day with an Open Letter to WIPO Urging Greater Protection of Intellectual Property Washington, DC - In honor of World IP Day, Property Rights Alliance and 54 partner organizations across the globe sent an open letter to...
WRHA a Dysfunctional Model?
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority was established in the mid-1990s and it has grown into a massive, complex bureaucracy. Its budget is approaching $3 billion. Its many activities range from operating a central laundry to establishing standards while operating a...
Should Canadian ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ be Open to Challenge?
Like post-secondary institutions in colonialized countries, the first Canadian universities had strong ties to religious institutions and to the alma maters of what their academics saw as their mother countries. By the late 1960s, secularity had become the norm, but...
Home-Care Model is Failing Manitoba
We know our population is aging, and a recent study by the University of Manitoba shows the province could need up to 5,000 personal care home beds by 2030, or approximately 300 to 350 beds per year. If we are successful in solving some of the patient-flow problems...
It’s All About Patient Flow
It seems every time we watch the news these days, there is some item about ambulances being unable to unload patients at the emergency room, or about ER wait times increasing or failing to meet some arbitrary target. We all remember Gary Doer’s promise to end "hallway...
Content Knowledge: The Key to 21st Century Learning
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/314979585" params="color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true" width="100%" height="20" iframe="true" /] Content Knowledge: The Key to 21st Century Learning Presenter: Michael Zwaagstra, BEd,...
Expensive System, Mediocre Outcome
It often seems as though it is impossible to have a non-emotional discussion about health care because the issues are frequently distorted for political reasons. So what is the state of health-care delivery in Canada and Manitoba compared with other industrialized...