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SUZUKI – New IPCC report flags diet and land-use changes to curb climate chaos

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

LAND AND AGRICULTURE are critical components in the climate crisis. According to a new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, land use — including agriculture [Continue]

POLITICS – Anti-Alberta bigotry clothed in environmental clichés and platitudes

August 10, 2019 // 2 Comments

It is anyone’s guess how long Albertans will put up with this assault on their interests and insult to their self-respect By BARRY COOPER University of Calgary DAVE YAGER [Continue]

SUZUKI – Deniers deflated as climate reality hits home

August 7, 2019 // 1 Comment

CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIERS are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at [Continue]

MEDIA – What can – and should – be done about CBC

July 28, 2019 // 3 Comments

By PETER MENZIES Troy Media Get CBC out of the advertising business on all of its platforms. And make its content available to other media for free within Canada SEVERAL [Continue]

SUZUKI – Fracking is neither climate solution nor economic blessing

July 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE RUSH TO EXPLOIT and sell fossil fuels as quickly as possible before the reality of climate disruption becomes too great to deny or ignore has generated some Orwellian [Continue]

BUSINESS – Victoria City council is the worst, but Vancouver comes close

July 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

By CHRIS GARDNER President, Independent Contractors and Businesses Association IN THE RACE for worst city council in British Columbia, Victoria gets most of the media buzz. [Continue]

HERITAGE – Chateau Laurier addition is an affront to the property’s history

July 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

The proposed addition looks like a giant air conditioner or shipping container. It’s ugly and entirely out of place By RAYMOND J. deSOUZA Senior Fellow, Cardus [Continue]

POLITICS – China clearly has Canada’s number when it comes to food safety

July 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Diplomatically, China has made Canada look like an amateur trying to play in the big leagues By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS Senior Fellow Atlantic Institute for Market Studies CANADA [Continue]

SUZUKI – Fossil fuels still rule but we can resolve the climate crisis

July 3, 2019 // 1 Comment

THERE’S NO SHORTAGE of solutions to the climate crisis. Rapidly developing clean-energy technology, reducing energy consumption and waste, increasing efficiency, [Continue]

PIPELINE – Why a group of First Nations wants to own the Trans Mountain

May 30, 2019 // 2 Comments

By HARRIE VREDENBURT University of Calgary THE STANDOFF BETWEEN Indigenous communities — backed by environmentalists — and the oil industry has led to regional [Continue]

SUZUKI – Climate change, biodiversity should be top headline news

May 29, 2019 // 3 Comments

WHEN THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL Panel on Climate Change released a special report in October warning of how quickly we’re advancing toward irreversible climate chaos, it led the [Continue]

ENVIRONMENT – Green enviro-dreams are based on fantasy, not science

May 26, 2019 // 4 Comments

Energy analyst Mark Mills says we’re decades away from renewables providing 100% of the power that drives our economy By KEN GREEN Analyst The Fraser Institute [Continue]

THE SEXES – In praise of all that masculinity has accomplished

May 24, 2019 // 2 Comments

We don’t need to disparage masculinity in order to celebrate the qualities and contributions of women, or to encourage social equality of the genders By PHILIP CARL [Continue]

SCIENCE – Reasoned skepticism about climate change is healthy

May 22, 2019 // 2 Comments

Let’s not deal with the grim science of cynical political marketing and hyperbole. Instead, we should rigorously adjudicate all belief SPOTTING HEADLINES about the recent [Continue]