The current rate of rising sea levels is manageable, and countries and authorities are already taking proactive measures to address the issue One of the more exaggerated predictions made by the climate crisis lobby is that human-caused global warming is leading to a...
Dissatisfaction with the current state of Canada's airports is palpable among the public, airlines, and the federal government. Landing fees, shop and restaurant rental fees, and ‘airport improvement fees’ seem high and uncompetitive versus U.S. airports. This...
Climate Crisis advocates doggedly promote wind and solar power as alternatives to petroleum and coal-based energy sources. Solar power has serious fundamental problems inherent to its nature, specifically its intermittency and grid-destabilization. Wind turbines...
Journalistic objectivity, curiosity, skepticism, neutrality, and even impartiality are in decline. It is not merely how quickly and savagely that opinion analysis, or commentary elements of most news organizations are to dismiss challenges to establishment...
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
The federal Liberal government’s current budget proposal budget proposal to increase the inclusion rate for capital gains tax was met with justifiable criticism and opposition - primarily from business groups. There is another corporate income tax increase looming. ...
Canadians have been treated to the latest growth-strangling budget of our mushrooming federal government. Aside from the usual profligate Ottawa spending plans, one move has caused justifiable consternation: the capital gains inclusion rate is to be raised from one...
An open letter to political leaders written by investment management firm Letko Brosseau, ‘LB’, signed by about ninety current and former Canadian corporate chief executive officers, exhorts government officials to induce public pension plans to allocate more –...
Canada’s productivity performance has been dismal, having not increased over the last nearly ten years. Economists calculate productivity as the value of output divided by hours worked to generate that output. However, the numerator, being the value of the goods and...
New Zealand may be kicking off a fiscal trend: boldly downsizing its public-sector payrolls to trim unwieldy government deficits. Its new coalition government, elected last October, is moving to eliminate 15,000 civil service jobs. David Seymour, ACT Party leader,...
The tourist-oriented city of Kelowna, British Columbia, has self-destructively voted to prohibit any new short-term rentals in residences. Even the provincial government is not as draconian, giving dispensation to resort and tourist destinations. Nationally, the...
The very motivated Climate Emergency crusaders and politicians have an ambitious list of the things they wish to implement (along with those they want to ban). Foremost among their favourites are alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar along with batteries...
It is taking a while, but a prolonged period of elevated interest rates, at both the short end set by the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve Board of the United States, and at the long end in the bond market set by domestic and foreign investors, is coming to be...
The following introductory comments by Ian Madsen, Senior Policy Analyst, Frontier Centre for Public Policy provide background on Graham Lane whose attached letter to CPA Manitoba strongly criticizes that organization’s embrace of ESG. Graham Lane is a retired CA and...