Ontario has a problem. It’s awash in red tape. For example, hairdressers need to collect customers’ contact info just like tattoo parlours. Soup kitchens have to follow the same rules that apply to major restaurant chains and face hefty fines or can even get shuttered...
Results for "Residential"
More Buckets of Icy Cold Energy Reality
The full-court press is on for climate chaos disaster and renewable energy salvation. CNN recently hosted a seven-hour climate event for Democrat presidential aspirants. Every day brings more gloom-and-doom stories about absurd, often taxpayer-funded pseudo-scientific...
Red Pheasant: Reserve Life is not Healthy, Especially for Young People
Red Pheasant Cree Nation No. 108 is located in Saskatchewan near North Battleford. The band is named after Red Pheasant, brother of Chief Wuttunee (Porcupine). Wuttunee was chief, in 1876, when Red Pheasant was a signatory to Treaty No. 6. Wuttunee did not wish to...
Buckets of Icy Cold Reality
CNN recently hosted a seven-hour climate bore-athon. That climate cataclysms are real and already devastating our planet was not open to discussion. So host Wolf Blitzer and ten Democrat presidential contenders vied to make the most extravagant claims about how bad...
Featured News
Copper is Signaling Expansion and Rising Inflation; Gold and Silver are Confirming Those Trends
The price of copper has long been a bellwether for economic conditions. The price is strongly correlated to economic activity, industrial production and economic growth in general. It is also highly correlated with the Canadian dollar and economy. The red metal’s...
Climate Pandering is Self-Defeating for Canadian Banks
Canada’s national policy to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 necessitates divesting from fossil fuels. There is just one problem: massive outstanding loans from banks to the oil and gas industries. The oil and gas sector makes up more than 10 per cent of the...
The Un-built City
A recent article in this newspaper bemoaned Winnipeggers' lack of pride, and our embarrassment about our city as a place to visit. There is a lot about the city which makes it well worth the visit, and we have, for years, enjoyed showing surprised visitors how large,...
Higher Interest Rates And Lack Of Land Fuel The Flame To Just Go Bananas
It is so easy to blame governments – especially when they are, in fact, to blame.
Regulated Gas a Pain for Manitobans
In an effort to shield consumers from fluctuating natural gas prices, the Manitoba Public Utilities Board has inadvertently created a trap for householders that could add as much as $10 million to the gas bills of consumers. For many years, the PUB has focused its...
Revising The Suburbs
Sprawl. It's an ugly word. The term often evokes images that are even uglier: Green space lost to an asphalt desert of strip malls and highways. Citizens trapped in cars and a fast-food lifestyle that leaves them tired, stressed, and overweight. Pollution and global...
Loathing, Lies and Liberation Theology
LA OROYA, Peru--Pitched battles over ideology and public policy certainly are not confined to classrooms or legislative chambers. They are also fought in poor communities of Africa, Asia and Latin America, often pitting multinational corporations against multinational...
Fair Equalization Payments? Not in Canada
OTTAWA -- In 2004, Canadians smoked an average of 1,207 cigarettes each. Quebeckers smoked an average of 1,434 cigarettes -- 227 more. This disparity cost Quebec almost $190-million in lost federal equalization payments. It wasn't a penalty for smoking too many...
Switchgrass the ‘Oil’ of the Prairies
The reason for the buzz about switchgrass is it stores a tremendous amount of BTUs (British thermal units) to produce environmentally friendly heat from stoves and furnaces.
The Grass Station
Up in Manitoba, Canada, where they care deeply about staying warm, they’re experimenting with stoves that burn pellets of switch grass.
Energy Farming—Manitoba’s Biofuels Future
The Prairies are ideally situated for an exciting new industry that makes ecological and economic sense.