In his latest seminal book, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations, Austin, Texas-based energy analyst and futurist Robert Bryce declares that “electricity has become a human right.” It’s not an “endowed by our Creator” human right, nor one...
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Should Canada Correct its Course on the Chinese Regime
To its credit, Australia, together with strong leadership from the United States, is leading the charge to conduct an inquiry into the origin of the novel coronavirus that has killed hundreds of thousands and severely disrupted the lives of billions of the world’s...
Manitoba Students need Regular Classes this Fall
One thing we’ve learned this year is that global pandemics have a big impact on teaching and learning. Since mid-March, regular K-12 classes have been suspended and instruction has moved online. While schools will partially reopen in June, this does not mean things...
From the Fiscal COVID Collapse – A Roadmap for Rebuilding Manitoba Public Policy
Canada’s Triple A credit rating was downgraded a notch to AA by Fitch Rating on June 24th. Sadly, it’s no surprise - expect more downgrades as politicians stumble over each other to throw borrowed (and printed) money at the victims of their unwise COVID-19 virus...
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Standard of Living Crisis Evident in New Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
One of the principal advances of the past two centuries has been the drastic reduction in poverty and the rise of a large middle-class, a process expertly detailed by economists Diedre McClosky and Robert Gordon. At the heart of this trend was the increase in the home...
Cancelling Our Culture
The Cancel Culture has claimed another victim. Renowned poet George Elliott Clarke has backed out of giving the University of Regina’s Woodrow Lloyd Lecture over accusations from Indigenous activists that he associates with another poet who once did a bad thing. His...
Wide Fluctuations in Arctic Temperature Common
Are changes in global ice cover a function of human release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere? The facts say, “No.”
Tim Ball PowerPoint on Global Cooling
Powerpoint slides from Tim Ball speech on global cooling.
Dr. Tim Ball, Historical Climatologist
Is manmade global warming a problem for Canada? Think again. It’s cooling we should be worrying about.
Private sector Gets £1bn NHS Boost
A second wave of independent treatment centres, which are privately owned and run but treat NHS patients, are to be put out to tender. They will have the capacity to treat another 250,000 patients a year.
Private Sector to Gain Access to Sustainable NHS Market
Britain’s National Health Service cuts waiting lists with private healthcare providers bidding on contracts.
Ontarians to pay $1B for hydro meters
A new smart-meter initiative will make Ontario the first North American jurisdiction to record residential power consumption data on an hourly basis; critics argue the meters will allow the government to blame higher electricity bills on consumers who do not conserve aggressively.
Try Smarter Policing Instead
Frontier’s 2004 police charticle again shows Winnipeg with the second highest police per capita in Canada. Instead of increasing police numbers, Winnipeg needs to make smarter use of its plentiful police resources.
Earth is Cooling, not Warming, Climatologist Says
GLOBAL warming isn’t a threat to Canada’s farm belt because scientists who say the Earth is warming are wrong, says former University of Manitoba climatologist Tim Ball.
Canada Needs to Decentralize
Decentralizing power to the provinces is long overdue in Canada.