I agree with this editorial from the Saskatoon Paper. At a time when global attention increasingly is focused on the environmental impact of oilsands development, and when the glacial melt that supplies fresh water for cities such as Calgary and Saskatoon is...
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The More You Learn – The Less You Trust
A lot of knowledge can lock one into group think.
Coase Theorem In Action
In a presentation at a TEDx conference, Rob Harmon provides us with a simple real world example of Coase Theorem.
Rare Corporate Courage and Common Sense: Wal-Mart stands up to activist intimidation, ensuring affordable, wholesome food for customers
Good for Wal-Mart! Despite intense pressure by anti-biotechnology activists, the retailing giant didn’t cave in to demands that it “reject” Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) sweet corn (maize).
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Wealth Taxes Are a Non-New, Pernicious and Invidious Proposal From the Usual Greedy Suspects
Recently, there has been an increasing clamour from some circles for imposing a wealth tax upon Canadians. The usual government-expanding social ‘democratic’ pressure and interest groups are especially enthused by the idea and also claim it is ‘popular’ among the...
What Comes Next after Bitcoin Mainstreaming?
Underneath all the media brouhaha and institutional focus on bitcoin, a struggle is brewing in the crypto world: which altcoin will pick up the baton? A fierce competition is underway for the podium, with Ethereum having a clear first-mover advantage. Bitcoin, as...
Who Let Activists in Forest Boardrooms?
Environmental extremists have no place in decision-making about the harvesting of our forests.
Wishes and Horses for Africa
“I would promote wind for power, not damming more rivers,” says actor Ed Begley, Jr. It’s low-cost, renewable, inexhaustible, eco-friendly and emits no greenhouse gases. If banks and energy companies financed wind energy projects, they’d help protect wildlife and...
Randal O’Toole, Author of The Vanishing Automobile
If Winnipeg wants to spend a lot of money with very little in return, light rail transit is the answer.
Rainforest Network Targets Third World Poor
The radical Rainforest Action Network is trying to intimidate yet another company into adopting its narrow definition of ethics, ecology and the public interest.
Eco-imperialism Won’t Save the Environment
Mr. Driessen calls this “eco-imperialism,” an effective term that appeals to the disdain for the domination of vulnerable or weak societies by the more powerful. This resonates with rural Canadians, especially those engaged in the fur trade and commercial forestry, some of whom are the chief victims of this sort of arrogance.
Former Sierra Club member warns Manitobans about environmental lobby
The North American environmental movement has lost its compass, and the misinformation many of its groups are spreading is costing millions of lives in third world countries, said author and former environmentalist Paul Driessen.
Environmentalists lack compassion for poor: author
ENVIRONMENTAL groups are operating in a moral vacuum with no regard for the lives and welfare of people in developing countries, says a man who once took up the cause of environmentalism.
Moore Wisdom Needed
A portrait of Patrick Moore, modern environmentalist
Needed: Ethics for Environmental Activists
Environmental activists specializes in preaching, but their own moral standing is suspect.