Cheap Coal Could Pay for Greenhouse Gas Remediation
Lately, the Climate Change Apocalypse lobby has gone into overdrive in their efforts to browbeat reluctant consumers, businesses and governments to wholly eliminate fossil fuels and commit to putting all future energy investment into renewable energy. That did not...
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A Physician’s Concern for Patients Can’t be for Sale
Allegations if corrupt healthcare administrative officials in Alberta have been politicised in the extreme. If truth and justice are to be served, Albertans should be sceptical of doctor witnesses painted as victims, who may have profited from the alleged corruption.
Missed opportunities in telecom and UBB
Although the telcos are major ISPs, Yahoo and Google dominate the search engine market. Bell's Sympatico wasn't a bad try at a portal for a telco ISP but it never really captured the market or led to big successes in other applications areas. How could North...
Grow Regina to 1 Million: How Regina can capitalize on the boom
Regina is booming for the first time in decades. If the provincial government continues to move toward pro-growth policies, Regina could be home to 1 million residents before the turn of the century. This article lays out some of the lessons that Regina can learn from other cities to ensure that its residents capitalise on the boom.
Why U.S. Spending Needs a Swedish Massage
From Globe and Mail In a book published last year, Swedish economists Andreas Bergh and Magnus Henrekson affirmed that, as a general rule, every 10-percentage-point increase in the size of government in wealthy countries reduces economic growth - by as little as 0.5...
Vancouver housing strategy misses the mark
A new housing and homelessness strategy came before Vancouver City Council July 26th. Its stated goal is no less than to eradicate homelessness by 2015. Aside from the impossibility of the goal, lumping general housing affordability and homelessness together into one...