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Environment
Were the Canadian Fires Deliberately Set?
It wouldn't be the first time. A Google Earth satellite video is making the rounds on twitter. it shows the moment an arc of fires began in northern Quebec, the smoke rising. It looks like people calculated the prevailing winds so that the smoke would blow...
UN Climate Agency Distorts Science, Promotes Green Industry Lobby
The dubious ‘problem’ of purported global warming has become a key driver of public policy, bringing social coercion and huge capital allocations by governments and corporations across the world. Thus, very skeptical scrutiny should be brought to bear on...
Etam: The Beatings will Continue until Morale Improves
There’s positive energy out there, and there’s negative energy, and life is better wrapped in one rather than the other. I get it. I’ve absorbed the cliches and motivational posters; stay away from toxicity and life goes much easier. The energy world has for a...
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Canadians on the Move, to Smaller Communities
The Canadian Dream is increasingly being realized in smaller areas For decades, Canadians moved to the larger cities (census metropolitan areas, or CMAs) with their economic opportunities. The latest estimates indicate that CMAs have 72 per cent of the nation’s...
Leadership Needed in Canadian Healthcare; Apply Within
When the Premiers were first called to a sit-down lunch to talk about healthcare with Prime Minister Trudeau, there was plenty of talk about the potential for systemic change, innovation and accountability. It seemed that Canadians and their leaders were finally on...
Keep Carbon Taxes in the Ground
The House of Representatives recently passed a sense of Congress resolution that a carbon tax would kill jobs, damage the revitalized U.S. economy, and disproportionately impact poor, minority and working class families. The vote also reflects the fact that America is...
How Al Gore Cashed in Big on Global Warming
Although his science is often seriously wrong, no one can deny that Al Gore has a flare for the dramatic. Speaking about climate change in an October 12 PBS interview, the former vice-president proclaimed, “We have a global emergency.” Referring to the most recent UN...
The IPCC’s Latest Climate Hysteria
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report 15 claims the latest disaster “tipping point” is just 12 years away. If governments around the world fail to make “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,” human civilization and...
Which Kill More Birds, Oil Sands or Wind Turbines?
A video produced by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy's Smart Green Project (www.fcpp.org) in 2008. Updating the message here - according to Nature Canada wind turbines kill approximately 8.2 birds per turbine per year. In 2017 Canada had 6590 installed turbines...
Debate Planned on Merits of Fracking
They’re aiming for a unique accomplishment in Pugwash on Thursday night. A group of citizens will try to host a constructive, rational debate on the merits of fracking. And then, perhaps even more ambitiously, they’re going to try for a discussion where everyone...
Finally! Some Fuel Economy Common Sense
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards were devised back in 1975, amid anxiety over the OPEC oil embargo and supposedly imminent depletion of the world’s oil supplies. But recall, barely 15 years after Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in...
The Environment: A True Story Part 22 – Is Warmer Better
Part 22 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
The Environment: A True Story Part 21 – Oh That Little Ice Age
Part 21 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
Lessons From The Oakland/San Francisco Dismissal
Federal District Court Judge William Alsup dismissed the "global warming" lawsuits of the cities of Oakland and San Francisco against large oil and gas companies, In so doing, the Judge provided important lessons in history, logic and public policy. The cities had...