Hospitals are experiencing an influx of young children with serious respiratory illnesses. Out of concern for their wellbeing, some health professionals are pushing to bring back mask mandates for schools. In other words, students would be required, once again, to...
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Net Zero Carbon Means Near Zero Saskatchewan Industry
The problem with the path to net zero carbon emissions is its accompanying net zero environmental benefits and its net zero improvement in our standard of living. Net zero is an anti-human hellbent path to scarcity that threatens wealth creation, leaving all but a few...
The Democrats’ False Victory
A progressive bloodbath has merely been delayed For all their cautious optimism yesterday, a mild midterms victory may prove the last thing the Democrats need. If they had performed as predicted, the Democrats and their media adjuncts would now be busily...
Escaping From the COP-27 Insane Asylum
Let’s hope climate talks finally come to grips with energy, scientific and economic reality “Show us the money!” climate activists demand, and rich countries are expected to pony up. Do I hear $100 billion? Would you give $1 trillion? Now, then, would you give $2...
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Process, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Accountability and Transparency Inspectorate, ‘PEEATI’
A litany of disastrous decisions have sometimes cost lives and definitely many billions of dollars. Effectively cancelling the Global Public Health Intelligence Network; the failure to implement the pandemic preparedness protocols developed by Ottawa’s public health...
Foreign Influence in Canadian Economy?
Foreign influence or interference has become a mediatic topic. The fear and suspicion of interference in the elections and democratic process have been in news headlines. For the western countries, the suspicion bears on Russia and China. Revisionist powers have a...
Airbus A380: Death of the “Plane Born to Die”
Airbus’ cancellation (February 14) of the four engine, wide-body A380 jumbo jet ends the troubled life of a plane that always was too big and out of sync with changing market realities. Little more than 11 years after its October 2007 maiden commercial flight by...
AOC Says America Should Lead the World
29-year old ex-bartender and freshman U.S. Representative (D-NY) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received thunderous environmentalist and media acclaim when she introduced her Green New Deal resolution in the House and Ed Markey (D-MA) submitted it in the Senate. It was...
The Little Potato Grows Eyes
China’s dictatorship, once the favorite of Canada’s Prime Minister, has now become his biggest problem. When he first visited China as Prime Minister, the Chinese lauded him as the “Little Potato” (with his late father Pierre being the big one). The name may be apt. A...
The Progressive Agenda Stormtroopers
The Law Society of Ontario is determined to compel all lawyers who wish to practise in that province to sign on to the Society’s version of a progressive agenda. The Society is also considering making it mandatory that lawyers attend sessions on such subjects as...
Venezuela’s Descent into Poverty, Chaos and Repression
This past week, Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for his second six year term. His first term was marked by hyperinflation, violent repression, flight of foreign investors, shutdown of businesses, bankruptcies, riots,...
Two, and Even More, Glaring Reasons to Mistrust Global Warming Activists’ Sincerity and Integrity
In December we were treated, if that is the word, to the sorrowful and accusatory screed of an earnest Swedish teenager, as she cast gloom and guilt globally while comfortably ensconced in a heated auditorium at the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference in...
New Technology Will Make Carbon Dioxide Tax Obsolete Anyway
Canadian politics have been riven and even toxified by the debate over Ottawa’s plans to impose a ‘carbon tax’ on greenhouse gas emissions (GGE) on all provinces lacking such a levy. The ostensible goal is to induce the use of less fossil fuels, and thus emit less...
15th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
CANADA, January 21, 2019 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released the 15th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. The survey is prepared by Wendell Cox of Demographia (USA) and a Senior Fellow at Frontier Centre and co-authored...
Who controls the Marketplace of Ideas and does regulating it, limit it?
In Part 1, I discussed some issues around these Social Media companies and whether they are considered monopolies. Because of the nature of their actual business (digital advertising) they aren’t monopolies, they are each other’s competitors in a larger marketplace....