News of traps on nature trails in the British Columbia woods bring back memories of previous eco-terrorist violence in North America. But they also bring something new. Radical environmentalists Earth First! (EF!) once sabotaged ski resorts and attempted to sabotage a...
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Evidence is the Measure of Science, Not Signs
In this piece in Huffington Post, Canada's famous geneticist, David Suzuki, tried his best to connect the recent Alberta floods to fossil fuel consumption. The attempt goes from fuel consumption, to global warming, to climate change, to flooding rivers. The title of...
Grabbing Money with Both Hands
Grabbing money with both hands (and not letting go) is the image that sums up the essence of what the California mega project to build a high speed train from Sacramento to San Diego is all about. Currently guesstimated at $68 billion, of which only $12 billion appear...
Alberta Education Minister’s “vision” not-yet developed
Listening to Alberta Minister of Education Jeff Johnson, one would think that he was a modern visionary in education. His vision, however, as he has himself acknowledged, is half-baked: “There is a vision developing,” he's been quoted to say in the context of...
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
Medical Martial Law – Never Again
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
Official Multiculturalism Fails Immigrants: It cannot function as state therapy for exile
The doctrine of multiculturalism in Canada is presented, among other things, as a necessity to help immigrants prerve their language and culture, and to facilitate their integration into mainstream Canada.
What’s in Suing Big Tobacco?: The states interests may not always be the community’s interests
Governments in Canada are suing tobacco companies for the sake of the health of Canadians, even if tobacco sale and production are legal. The law suits set a precedent that further endangers unpopular industries such as fast food chains.
Rejecting Subsidy, Shunning Dependency: Maritime Provinces wish to sail to self-reliance.
Ben Eisen’s study of “stealth equalization” provides further evidence for the new movement of Atlantic Canadians who understand that federal subsidies undermine their economic capacity for self-reliance and foster dependency.
Political Currents in Quebec Shifting to the Right: A New Conservative Movements Emerges
A new political movement was launched in Quebec City on the weekend (October 23).The movement is an expression of the frustrations of a new generation with the excesses of the previous one. It aims not a forming a political party, but at bringing together libertarian and conservative Quebeckers to produce a cultural shift.
Salary Abuses Do Not End With Disclosure Rules: Accountability lies in good oversight.
While rules for salary disclosure increase visibility and transparency, they do not stop executive salary abuse in some cases. But if such rules do not solve all of the problems of salary abuse, they provide necessary transparency to those who would make executives accountable.