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Canada’s Eco-Extremism Threat Is Flying Under The Radar
The dangerous rise in eco-extremism in Canada is fueled by identity politics and exaggerated climate anxieties
Etam: 444,000 Semi-loads of Food? Just Another Day on Planet Earth
A friend of mine, always with a keen eye on interesting things, passed on an interesting quote from the CERA Week energy conference the other week. The head of the International Energy Forum mentioned a surprising statistic, as quoted by Javier Blas on Twitter:...
The Deadly Fruits Of Climate Change Alarmism
The Looming Eco-Extremist Threat And Why We Must Stop Ignoring It
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
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...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
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 “Just Transition” Soviet Style Plans for Canada’s Oilpatch
The “Just Transition” legislation currently before the House of Commons Natural Resources Committee mentions unions a fair bit. It also mentions what are effectively five-year plans, which was a common practice for moulding the economies of the Soviet Union and China,...
Scott Moe: If Atlantic Canada Won’t Pay the Carbon Tax on Heating, Neither will Sask
REGINA – What’s good for the Atlantic goose is good for the Saskatchewan gander, when it comes to carbon tax for home heating. And if they’re not paying the carbon tax, neither will we. That’s the strategy Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is taking when it comes to...
Etam: Panic at AI’s Looming Energy Appetite
There is an army of analysts out there, a quasi-industry, that attacks data streams like piranhas, ripping everything apart and, unlike piranhas, analyzing the living daylights out of them. There are people that spend days on end analyzing, for example, not just...
No Farmers, No Food, No Future
All over the world, everywhere you look. And now bugs. They are actually serious about bugs, and when I say ‘they’ I mean the government. Justin Trudeau, the most hated prime minister in history, granted millions to yet another bug factory not too long ago. This...
Etam: Solar Power’s Massive Potential
As we slide inexorably into the clutches of Soviet-style cultural narrative control and thought prevention courtesy of ‘fact-checking’ institutions and their oddly subjective ‘fact books’, I offer the following conundrum as a hurled wrench into the cogs of the greasy...
Lysenkoism: When Science is Politicized
“Lysenkoism” is a term that was coined after the Soviet geneticist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, who rose to prominence in the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s. He was known for his political influence over Soviet science, rejecting Mendelian genetics and...
Manitoba: Join Western Front Against Net Zero Nonsense
Despite Manitoba’s historic reliance on cheap and clean hydroelectric power, it should be standing shoulder to shoulder with the energy provinces Alberta and Saskatchewan in opposing the federal government’s unprecedented power grab to reconfigure electricity...
Climate And Capitalism: A Match Made In Hell
Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire. Imagine the money bomb waiting to be scooped up rebuilding one of Hawaii’s main tourist towns. Same story in the central valley of California. 2030 wants cattle off the land, so why not burn acres upon acres of feed....
The Biden Administration’s Disconcerting Bias Against Canadian Oil
Biden’s inconsistent approach to pipelines is raising eyebrows