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Politicizing the Judiciary
Israel is currently locked in an intense struggle between conservatives and progressives over the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform plans. As it now stands, the top court can strike down any law that it considers to be “unreasonable”. Those judges are all...
A Dangerous Attempt To Shut Down Free Enquiry
An early 20th century photo of the cemetery associated with the St. Mary’s IRS, Kenora, Ontario, showing wooden grave markers of students that were allowed to disintegrate over time, proving that students were given a proper Christian (Catholic) burial. "We...
Russia’s Nervous Neighbours
We don’t know how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will end, but whatever the outcome, the world will be changed forever. Already, the post WWII consensus—often called the Pax Americana—that has kept the world relatively peaceful is rapidly breaking down. China, Russia,...
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Our Health Ministers Need to Take a Lesson from Hockey Coaches
Those of you who are tired of my rants about the demise of our once great health system will be pleased to know that this is my last editorial. I am retiring from the BCMJ Editorial Board; currently, I am the longest-serving member (more than 20 years). I have been a...
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
My Tower of Babble book review (pulled by Amazon.ca)
Richard Stursberg’s new book – The Tower of Babble – details the severe challenges involved in modernizing a large, moribund government organization in an enlightening discussion of internal politics and intrigue.
Alberta Tories Should Shield Students from Politicized Human Rights Commissions: Section 16 of the Education Act should be repealed
Section 16 of the Alberta Government’s new Education Act subjects schools and pupils to the soft totalitarianism of the discredited human rights commissions.
It’s Getting Harder to Bring Home the Bacon: C. Larry Pope, CEO of the world’s largest pork producer, explains why food prices are rising and why they are likely to stay high for a long time.
Mr. Pope is the chief executive officer of Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer by volume. He doesn’t mince words when it comes to rapidly rising food prices. The 56-year-old accountant by training has been in the business for more than three decades, and he warns that the higher costs may be here to stay.
Compelled Investment
Manitoba Hydro has indicated that Bi-Pole III is now estimated to cost $3.2 billion, which is up $1 billion from their original estimate.
The cost of new hydro dam construction is also experiencing significant cost inflation. During recent PUB hearings, it was reported that the new Wuswatim dam will now cost $1.6 billion. That figure is nearly 80% above the initial budgeted cost of $900 million. Power generated from the dam is now expect to cost between 9 and 10 cents to produce.
Climate Science: Funding Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy in claiming some funding is untainted and supporting research that increases profit; fraud by using false information – a practice that would bring criminal charges in most other areas of business; and tyranny by bullying and suppressing those who seek balance and all the facts. But the ultimate hypocrisy is that the practitioners of all three claim to be our saviors.
Banishment Practice Needs To Be Controlled: New First Nation law presents due process concerns
A new law introduced by a Manitoba First Nation community allowing banishment for criminal reasons needs to be tightly controlled and must never become politicized by the sitting band government.
An Exclusive Interview with Czech President Vaclav Klaus
It is no surprise then that Klaus views global warming quotas and promises by politicians as a means of inflicting untested ideas “in the form of market controls” on the international economic engine. This, Klaus says, “gives new life to top down government and controls over people’s lives.”
Radical Environmentalists Part of Economic Meltdown
The saddest comment is that business and industry have the capability to deal with environmental issues in an honest way.
Killing Jobs to Save the Climate
The civil servants from the Environment Ministry, the Environment Agency and the German Emissions Trading Authority made it sound easy for industry to take up carbon trading. “If that’s the shape the trading will take, we will simply move our cement operation to Ukraine,” a cement factory manager shouted into the lecture hall. “Then there won’t be any trading here, nothing will be produced here anymore — the lights will simply go out here.”