Think of all the institutions that have marched in lockstep during the dramatic decline in civilization over three years. It’s been media, Big Tech, large corporations, academia, the medical industry, central banks, and government at all levels. They have all been in...
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Leaders on the Frontier – A Conversation with the Authors of the Great Barrington Declaration
On October 4, 2020 a landmark declaration was released by its three of the world’s most eminent public health policy experts inviting others to sign the document. Known as the Great Barrington Declaration – which stated that |"As infectious disease epidemiologists...
National Suicide by Education
It’s true that children are our future, for good or ill, depending on their education. Ill-educate children, as we are doing in the United States and Canada, and the result will be cultural decay, social breakdown, and political decline. We now teach our children that...
Leaders on the Frontier – With the Authors of The Great Barrington Declaration
On October 4, 2020 a landmark declaration was released by three of the world’s most eminent public health policy experts inviting others to sign the document. Known as the Great Barrington Declaration – which stated that |"As infectious disease epidemiologists and...
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No Evidence of Climate Crisis
In his annual State of the Climate report published on April 14, 2022, Dr. Ole Humlum, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oslo, examined detailed patterns in temperature changes in the atmosphere and oceans together with trends in climate impacts. Many of these...
It Is Time to Move On
I wrote an opinion column immediately following the May 27, 2021 announcement of the “shocking discovery of 215 bodies found in a mass grave at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.” In that column, I correctly stressed the need to wait for real...
Britain Raises Taxes on the 1%, the 1% Pay Less
With the Ontario NDP demanding a tax increase on upper income earners as a condition to prop up the McGuinty government, and the Alberta Liberals and NDP running on creating new tax brackets for the wealthy, it's worth taking a look at the news out of Britain. Despite...
The Real Margaret Thatcher Story
In the late 1970s, inflation neared 20% and the ruling party still wanted to own the means of production. Enter the grocer's daughter. A movie producer once shared with me a maxim for making historical films: Faced with choosing between "drama" and "historical...
Green Jobs: The European Experience
Many activists and politicians promise to improve economic performance through government spending on “green jobs.” Economic theory and empirical evidence from Europe both suggest that such efforts are unlikely to strengthen the economy.
Solar News In NYC
Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveils green initiatives, including new solar power plants and an energy efficiency corporation, as part of update of his PlaNYC sustainability plan.
Australia’s Carbon Warning for Obama: It turns out emissions restrictions do not grow more popular the more you try to pitch them..
President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is fighting a rear-guard action to accomplish via regulation what voters rejected via Congress: ruinously expensive restrictions on carbon emissions in the name of fighting “global warming.” But before he goes much further down that road, he should take a look at how a similar political calculation is playing out in Australia. In short, not well.
Smart Grids – Adam Smith or Orwell?
A quick scan of blogs and media coverage of Smart Grids for electricity quickly reveals a fear of a system that could have been envisaged by Orwell. Fears of big brother type of systems are given voice by many, including Lawrence Solomon at the National Post.
Under the so-called “smart grid” that the UK is developing, the government-regulated utility will be able to decide when and where power should be delivered, to ensure that it meets the highest social purpose. Governments may, for example, decide that the needs of key industries take precedence over others, or that the needs of industry trump that of residential consumers. Governments would also be able to price power prohibitively if it is used for non-essential purposes.
Climate Change Funding Eliminated?
The Republican bill would specifically bar the Obama administration from funding programmes regulating greenhouse gas emissions, or connected to climate science and international negotiations for a deal to end global warming.
Likely Consequences of Nenshi’s Civic Tax
Little children used to be encouraged to stay inside the lines when colouring. That was until the wave of postmodernist educators encouraged children to exercise their creativity. No need to bother staying inside the lines.
We know that Calgary’s Mayor Naheed Nenshi is a former educator. Perhaps he is a postmodernist educator too since his proposed new civic tax will encourage people to go outside the Calgary lines.
Nenshi is musing about convincing the feds to add one percent to the GST to Calgary goods and services. The extra money would go to him (the city government), and he will use it to pay for infrastructure such as libraries, recreation areas, and a new public art gallery.
One unintended result of the civic tax may be a fair bonanza for outlying municipalities, should they wish to exercise some fiscal discipline and not emulate Nenshi. Airdrie and Okotoks might be the big winners, with Cochrane and Strathmore perhaps not too far behind.
Ghost of Kyoto: Government Control by Any Means
The Environmental Protection Agency is manipulating a completely unnecessary and scientifically unjustified control of energy and must be stopped. Fortunately, the Texas case is currently stayed by a court order, but the EPA’s history is to do anything to achieve their goal. There can’t be enough articles about what EPA is doing because it is a serious threat to freedom.