ArriveCan Adventures
I would like to share my near disastrous experience with ArriveCan. In early September 2022 I had to travel to Mexico on business. I was scheduled to return September 13 via WestJet, but had to change to September 14, Air Canada operated by United. I got to the Puerto...
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Reforming the Justice System
There has been considerable talk recently about reforming the justice system. The talk has become particularly shrill following the Bushie and Fontaine murder trials in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In fact, the Justice Minister has said that she plans to eliminate...
Questioning the Prairie Climate Centre’s Extreme Weather Claims
The IPCC report AR5 and it's report on extreme weather says there is little evidence that extreme weather events can be attributed to human-caused emissions. Weather extremes in the U.S. were worse in the 1930's and 1950's than in recent decades. So why is the Prairie...
Climate ‘Culture War’ Will Doom Australia to Fail on Emissions Targets, Labor says
Australia will not achieve its emissions reductions targets until it ends the “culture war” on climate policy, Labor frontbencher Mark Butler has said. Speaking at the Carbon Market Institute emissions reduction conference in Melbourne on Wednesday, Butler said that...
Indigenous Commitment to Democracy is Under Threat
The Indigenous commitment to democracy is at stake in the controversy surrounding the recent memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the Wet’suwet’en, British Columbia and Canada. A majority of the elected Wet’suwet’en chiefs were incensed about the...
Oil Price Levels mean Governments Should Extensively Hedge
Something happened this week that likely nobody predicted – or could even have conceived of predicting. The near-term futures contract for April West Texas Intermediate crude oil, the benchmark for North American prices, which expired on that very day, went negative,...
Newspapers Grasp at Straws with Bid for Royalties from Facebook, Google
Social Media Is Here to Stay, Better to Adapt than Resist Over the years, the legacy press has gone from arrogance to hysteria as social-media firms eat up its advertising lunch. Rather than adjust to modern trends, the once-feared fourth estate is now begging the...
Social Media and the Fight for Freedom of Speech
First Amendment of the US Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to...
Japan To Renege On Carbon Emissions Cuts
Yesterday, Les wrote about the mess that Germany have got themselves in after shutting down Nuclear Power Plants in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake last year.
Lights Going out in Germany
What happens when a country phases out coal generated electricity and then moves to shut down nuclear electricity generation? The answer is increased costs to consumers and lower income people being unable to afford to purchase electricity. I wonder if Russia will...
It Can Happen Here: The Screwed Generation in Europe and America
Call them the screwed generation, the victims of expansive welfare states and the massive structural debt charged by their parents. In virtually every developed country, and increasingly in developing ones, they include not only the usual victims, the undereducated and recent immigrants, but also the college-educated.
Tax Credits Unfair And Ineffective
My article on tax credits, with a particular focus on Saskatchewan’s recently removed Film Tax Credit, has been published today.
Mulcair, Trudeau, Another NEP: the Threat to Canadian Unity
In 1980, a newly elected prime minister from Quebec, Pierre Trudeau, decided to mobilize the resource wealth of Western Canada in order to subsidize Eastern Canada. The result was the national energy program (NEP 1), which fixed domestic prices for oil and gas below world levels, levied an export tax to boost federal revenues and confiscated producing assets to give to Petro-Canada.
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