The year is not yet over, and Calgary has already recorded 26 homicides, six more than in 2019. Edmonton has witnessed a 90 percent spike in assaults with weapons or causing bodily harm. Unbelievably, rather than tackling this escalating violence head-on, officials...
Two centuries ago, clergyman Thomas Malthus expounded the proposition that population always outruns food supply. He said population increases geometrically while food supply increases, at best, only arithmetically. Half a century ago the Green Revolution, enabling...
There have been reports of rising COVID-19 infection rates in rural areas and even “surges,” such as here and here. Many of these reports fail to note the most important statistic of all with respect to rural areas --- that, even with the recent increases and surges,...
Most Canadians are amazed that so many of our American neighbors even want Trump as their president. Since his election in 2016, the Canadian media and most of the American media have been unrelenting in their disparagement of the man. He has been portrayed as...
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Warning: Debating global warming from science rather than politics could be a challenge to your health. In fact death threats come in fives to scientists who write that global warming is not man-made. Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball, who has been questioning...
Bryan Southcombe died on 7th March, aged 69, and my wife and I attended his funeral and the après funeral on March 14th. While much of the day focused on personal memories I found myself pondering the way the world had changed during the expansive and remarkable “Life...
New Zealand has a long history of taking leading edge positions on public policy issues, and has a proud tradition of leading political and social change. More recently, especially during the term of the fourth Labour Government, New Zealand was a world leader in...
The federal government’s 10 figure cheque hadn’t even greased his palm before Quebec Premier Jean Charest cashed it for campaign credit. But by turning Quebec’s freshly minted equalization billions into election-eve tax-cut promises, Mr. Charest has reduced a federal...
First, I should briefly state my position on the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Climate change is natural and has been going on since the earth was first formed. Rapid change in climate represents a genuine threat along with pandemics, nuclear war, tsunamis...
Rodney Dickens, writes the “Rodney’s Ravings” newsletter, one of which was reprinted in the Mangawhai Memo of 22nd February. Rodney is a highly competent analyst and his “Ravings” provide useful commentaries which are highly valued by those of us who consume such data...
American economist Indur Goklany has collected in one volume the long-term trends in the most significant indicators of human and environmental well-being.
You do not have to spend long in the company of a San Jose official before the old photographs come out. Chuck Reed, the mayor, has an aerial view of the city centre from the late 1970s on a wall in his office. Tom McEnery, who held the same post in the 1980s, has a...
The Caledon Institute’s new study on aboriginal migration and unemployment should have remained buried in bureaucratic obscurity. It has little to say that is useful in resolving a policy failure all too real for Canada’s natives.