“In a signing ceremony Thursday for a $7-billion deal with Samsung to build wind and solar facilities, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said: ‘This means Ontario is officially the place to be for green energy manufacturing in North America.'”
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What If Quebecers Got Their Wish, And The Oilsands Closed?: Economic impact would be devastating, even affecting Quebec’s social programs
“Closing down Alberta’s oil industry would immediately stop the production of 1.8 million barrels of oil a day. Supply and demand being what it is, oil prices would go up and therefore the cost at the pump would go up, too, increasing the cost of everything else.”
Insurance Group Says Stolen E-Mails Show Risk in Accepting Climate Science
“A major trade group for the insurance industry is warning that it is “exceedingly risky” for companies to blindly accept scientific conclusions around climate change, given the “serious questions” around the extent to which humans cause atmospheric warming.”
Indigenous Capitalists, from BC to Peru
“The news that private ownership would be legal on Nisga’a land rippled out of the Nass River valley in November, reminding those who heard it of how things work for the rest of Canada’s First Nations. If you live on a reserve in this country, your home belongs to the Crown, effectively barring you from the single most important economic tool in Western society: credit.”
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Energy Inquiry Shows the Problem and the Way
If a public inquiry found that hundreds of millions of dollars was being funnelled by foreign entities to undermine Canadian industry, should we conclude there is nothing wrong? Remarkably, the public inquiry’s final report into anti-Alberta energy campaigns did the...
Why Millennials Prefer DIY Investing
One-third of Canadian millennials prefer going solo when it comes to managing and investing their money. Online financial education and tools are changing the rules of the game and threatening to affect financial advisors how emails affected mailmen. A recent poll...
Cold Water on ‘Global Warming’
A whole cottage industry has sprung up among people who get grants, government agencies who get appropriations, politicians who get publicity and the perpetually indignant who get something new to be indignant about.
Forget Global Warming: Welcome to the New Ice Age
The ice is back. Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.
Equalization Payments Equal Unfairness
“Equalization is now largely decoupled from Ontario’s economic performance.” Equalization, in other words, requires that Ontario keeps paying – whether it is rich or poor.
Is Canada’s Economy a Model for America?
Not only is Canada’s path not a model for America, it’s not a viable model for Canada.
BC Premier Says Electricity Rates Are Going Up
Electricity rates are going up in British Columbia, but Premier Gordon Campbell said on Thursday that the provincial government wants to ensure that higher rates don't rob B.C. industries of the competitive advantage that low-cost power has traditionally provided. Nor...
It’s Liquor, Folks, Not Contraband
In most civilized parts of the world you can buy your groceries and your liquor in the same place.
Sacred Cows: Guess Who’s Getting Milked
In the past 14 years, incidentally, the price of industrial, supply-managed milk has doubled – twice the rate of inflation and more than 30 times the increase in the actual cost of milk production on the farm, where the number of cows has fallen by 40 per cent. Canada’s surviving dairy farmers are, in fact, remarkably productive. These asset-rich millionaires, hard working though they are, don’t need welfare cheques any longer.
Québec Abandons Ethanol
Because of the environmental impacts linked to intensive corn production, the Québec Governement will forbid the development of new ethanol plants.
Milk Price Fixing Must End
Supply management is also a straightjacket, keeping new producers out of the market unless they can buy precious quota, propping up the inefficient, and stifling innovation.