WINNIPEG, [March 12 2024] Canada's transit landscape is experiencing a profound transformation as eight major cities embark on the ambitious journey of developing rail transit systems. This marks a significant departure from the conventional wisdom of the 1950s when...
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Peckford: Canada’s Hamartia- Now That We Can Amend Our Constitution We Have No Leadership To Do So
One of the important arguments in the negotiations leading to the Patriation Agreement/Constitution Act 1982 was we needed to be able to amend our Constitution. No more reference to Great Britain’s Parliament. We can set our own Constitutional course—to be a truly...
Emperors Of Woke Have No Clothes and Conservatives Should Say So
Why do Conservatives go along with woke ideas, woke norms and above all woke people? One of these days we're going to be really sorry we didn't stand up to this nonsense, when the proverbial little boy calls out that the emperor has no clothes. Men can be women?...
The Solution to our Government-Induced Malaise
Studying last month’s Davos meeting of the world’s (largely self-appointed) elites, Walter Russell Mead sees an inflection point. He says that when they listened to Argentinian President Milei promoting free market capitalism, the Davosies’ applause was more than...
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Energy Storage, Key to Making Renewable Energy and Green Infrastructure Viable, is Expensive
Big infrastructure spending plans in both Canada, the United States, and the European Union, all place a lot of emphasis on renewable energy displacing coal, gas and petroleum burning generating stations and motor vehicles. Yet little attention is given to the one...
Technology Giants: Prince John or Robin Hood?
The technology landscape consists of giant powerhouses like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and AOL (to name a few) and a veritable plethora of smaller companies ranging in size from one-person start-ups to mid-sized corporations. The one thing that all of these...
Leaders On The Frontier – Solutions For Solid Education With Caylan Ford – Part 1
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One U.S. Court Battle Could Reshape The North American Energy Economy
“If every locality traversed by an existing or proposed pipeline project were empowered to enact similar ordinances to prevent the operation of that pipeline through its boundaries, pipeline commerce could come to a halt.” – Lawyers for the Portland pipeline operator
Diesel Won’t Be Easily Replaced On The Farm
I was out at the cabin, trying to trim the reeds and weeds along the water, when I came across a stark reminder of how good we have it because of fossil fuels. I was using the electric whipper snipper when the reel head decided to disassemble itself. But I...
Day Of Reckoning Dawns On Illegal Alberta Lockdowns
Day of Reckoning Dawns on Illegal Alberta Lockdowns Pandemic governance across Canada was a bad version of Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on first?” Politicians handed power to chief medical health officers to relieve themselves of responsibility and political...
Should banks be allowed to close existing customer accounts for political reasons?
Retired UK politician Nigel Farage, one of the leaders of the Brexit movement which succeeded in pulling Britain out of the European Union, recently had his bank account closed by a British bank. The ensuing controversy saw the departure of that banks CEO. In the USA,...
The Intersection Of Public Good And Conflicts Of Interest – Insights From Dr. Matthew Cockle
National Citizens Inquiry
More Balance Needed on Personal Care Homes
Tom Brodbeck’s opinion essays (Winnipeg Free Press, July 28, 2023), rightly points out that in Winnipeg, at least, there has been “a breakdown of accountability measures to monitor the mistreatment” of residents of personal-care homes. Obviously, the physical and...
Why Do Governments Hate The Sun?
It’s nearly impossible to keep up with the endless barrage of government propaganda these days, all faithfully amplified by regime media. Daily and hourly, we are being warned to stay away from the sun, which is said to be unusually angry at us this year. What did we...
Allegations Of ‘Denialism’ Obstruct Access To Truth
Climate activists rally to urge politicians to stand against climate denial in New York on Jan. 9, 2017. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images) According to various sources, “denialism” is the practice of denying the validity of something for which there’s irrefutable proof....