Canadians have fought a lot of tough characters over the years. Sudanese warriors of the Mahdi, Boer guerillas, armies of the German, Austrian, and Japanese empires, Nazi SS panzer divisions, Red Chinese, North Koreans, Serbs, Croats, and Taleban all came to rue the...
Environment
When is an Emergency Not an Emergency?
“If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless...
Victoria Sues God
It has come to this—Victoria wants to round up a posse of municipalities to sue oil companies for damages from climate change. Not only is such a case well-nigh impossible to prove, it is also full of rich ironies. Weather-related damages, termed “perils” in Canadian...
The Environment: A True Story Part 35 – Good News
Part 35 of John Robson’s documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth. In this final snippet Robson concludes that man made global warming is simply not the crisis it has been made up...
Featured News
Coal – Not Wind – is Keeping Saskatchewan’s Lights On
While it’s not the same minute-by-minute data provided by the Alberta Electric System Operator for their grid, SaskPower has begun breaking down where its power is coming from on a daily basis. And the data from Oct. 3 and 4 showed wind generated an average of just...
57 Policy Proposals for Future Leaders to Help Make the Canadian Economy Soar
Executive Summary The various federal political parties are all promoting the policy agendas they believe will foster a sustainably high quality of life for all Canadians. It remains to be seen whether they will attain the success that they aim to achieve. In some...
Australia Repeals Its Carbon Tax
Australia has recently abolished what some have called the “world’s biggest carbon tax”. It was designed to combat climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide that result from the burning of fossil fuels. Companies who produced emissions that exceeded a...
Clearing Up The Confusion About Carbon And Carbon Dioxide
In the ongoing discussion about climate change, we are frequently misled about carbon, carbon dioxide and “carbon pollution.” Politicians and environmentalists use the terms interchangeably, when talking about the need to reduce our carbon emissions, or 'carbon...
Moving Atlantic Fisheries Forward
Newfoundland and Labrador announced recently that it would relinquish minimum processing requirements (MPR) on fish and seafood exports to Europe, clearing way for the province to reap the benefits of freer trade. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)...
Reforming Atlantic Fisheries: Lessons from Iceland
The collapse and subsequent moratorium on Atlantic cod has had profound economic, political, and sociological consequences in Atlantic Canada. Following the 1992 moratorium, the federal government transferred billions of dollars to Atlantic fishers to compensate for...
Reports of the demise of the Earth grossly exaggerated
At least there are no exploding children. The green movement’s latest unseemly manipulation of kids casts Downtown Abbey’s butler as Santa Claus in a dripping ice bunker, saying he has had to cancel Christmas because the North Pole is melting – please send money. The...
Risking lives to promote climate change hype
Will global warming alarmists ever set aside their hypotheses, hyperbole, models and ideologies long enough to acknowledge what is actually happening in the real world outside their windows? Will they at least do so before setting off on another misguided adventure?...
Coase, Pigou, and Sriracha Sauce
Huy Fong has been ordered to cease any odor emitting production by a California judge. This could lead to a shortage of their wildly popular Sriracha hot sauce. While foodies are upset, residents who sought the injunction against Huy Fong appear to have a legitimate...
History falsifies climate alarmist sea level claims
Sea levels are rising rapidly! Coastal communities are becoming more vulnerable to storms and storm surges! Small island nations are going to disappear beneath the waves! Climate alarmists have been making these claims for years, trying to tie them to events like...
Eco-Fascists – Ontario Case Study – Press Conference
A press conference with Frontier Centre Senior Fellow Elizabeth Nickson, author of Eco-Fascists: How Radical Conservationists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage. Hosted in the Press Gallery at the Ontario Provincial Legislature in Toronto, on the 4th of November...