Book Review: CANARY in a COVID WORLD: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World – 3 of 3
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A Canary In A Coal Mine Is A Warning Sign
Book Review: CANARY in a COVID WORLD: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our (My) World – 1 of 3
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy “Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were...
Who Really Owns The United States?
Nowadays, it is common, when introducing an event, to say something along the lines of: “We are grateful to the XYZ Indian Tribe for allowing us to hold this gathering on what is really their land.” Universities, bastions of the left, have been particularly intent...
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
Medical Martial Law – Never Again
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
A Taxing Dilemma: What’s the Optimal Rate for the Rich?
In 1980, the top 1 per cent of income earners in the United States paid income taxes equal to 1.5 per cent of the country’s GDP. The top marginal tax rate was 70 per cent. Now the top 1 per cent pays income taxes equal to 3.3 per cent of GDP. The top marginal tax rate is 35 per cent. From a halving of the top tax rate, in other words, came a doubling of revenue.
Climate Science Review Needed to Inform Pipeline Hearings Better: Real pipeline issues will be better handled with global warming concerns out of the way
The federal government should organise scientific and economic hearings about crucial projects like the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline in order properly to inform citizens and to dilute the impact of radical climate change environmentalists
A Valuation Analysis of ATB Financial: What would $3 billion buy for Albertans
In this valuation of ATB, the Frontier Centre launches its new series to valuate Canada’s Crown Corporations.
Media Release – What Would $3 Billion Buy for Albertans?: A Valuation Analysis of ATB Financial
This study provides a ground-breaking valuation of the monetary worth of Alberta government-owned ATB Financial.
Appeasing Climate Bureaucrats by Regulating Plant Food: Carbon dioxide regulations useless and dangerous
The annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change must be intimidating events for Canadian environment ministers. Year after year they are expected to present Canada’s “green credentials” to a world increasingly critical of our coming violation of the Kyoto Protocol, the most important agreement to come out of 16 years of COP meetings.
David Henderson, Economist
David Henderson, the author of Canada’s Budget Triumph, was interviewed August 10, 2011 during a recent visit to Winnipeg.
Ailing Greece Tries National Tag Sale
Debt-strapped Greece is about to hold an epic yard sale. Selling off government goodies, the rescuers hope, will raise €50 billion (about $71 billion) by 2015. Every euro drummed up that way is a euro that Germany and other healthy countries don’t need to lend.
Cap and Tirade
One may accuse the Harper government of many things, but the notion that rejecting cap and trade in favour of regulation of carbon emissions makes them “Communists” — as suggested in a piece by Dan Gardner in the Post on Monday — seems a little over the top.
Rent Control Advocates Retreat (in fifth gear): How far can Manitoba’s rent control recede before it’s completely pointless?
According to a recent paper written for the provincial government, Manitoba’s rent regulations are almost completely ineffectual.