One of the most important questions raised by governmental responses to the COVID crisis is «Who should speak for science in the public arena?» Every government in the world claims that its response to this health crisis is «science-based.» Scientific papers and authorities are liberally quoted in describing the nature […]
Plastics aren’t perfect, but if handled properly they are better and greener than substitute products made of plants and animals According to many environmentalists, coal, petroleum and natural gas, together with the fuels, lubricants and myriad other products these fossil fuels make possible, help drive widespread environmental problems. As journalist […]
The tab is coming due for the eye-popping public spending of the past year One of those payments is the inflation tax, which is already a reality in the United States. With Wednesday’s news that Canada’s year-over-year inflation rate is 3.4 per cent, we aren’t far behind. In April, the […]
This week, Ottawa doubled-down on its policy of treating the population like human guinea pigs by opening the door to mixing vaccines Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not be able to attend the G7 meeting in Britain in June, because he may not be eligible to receive his second shot […]
We should call it what it is: Reverse Perestroika Welcome to the new Canada, where on Monday the Liberal government launched a grand experiment in retrograde economic policy. Canada is now moving in the other direction. The 724-page Liberal budget, a document worthy of the great Gosplans that dominated Soviet economic life, lays out a […]
Scrap this Ministry of Truth-type $600-million bailout and eliminate any perception of a conflict of interest in our media’s reporting of the government To maintain trust in the audit process, users of the audited financial statements must know the auditors have not been influenced by any conflict of interest, real […]
What the Conservative leader said — and what it meant The speech Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole gave to the party policy conference was filled with thematic messages, the main one being that the party needed to change if it were to appeal more to voters in central Canada. On the topic of […]
An analysis by The Logic found there are now more than 600 companies that offer cryptocurrency trading services in Canada but that have not registered with securities regulators When Quadriga founder Gerald Cotten died in December 2018, over 76,000 investors lost a combined $169 million, money that couldn’t be recovered […]
Would help us deal with loss of Keystone XL and provide added benefit of displacing imported oil from Saudi Arabia «The revoking of Keystone XL’s permit by U. President Joe Biden his first day in office highlights the risk for Canada of depending on a single country for its petroleum product […]
Rail poised to become more important way to send Canadian oil to U. President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline is sparking renewed interest in shipping Canadian oilsands crude by rail, and that comes with its own environmental risks. have increasingly turned to trains to move their […]