Canada’s federal government has embarked on a path of substantial deficit financing with no concrete target laid out of when the budget might be expected to balance.The deficit will be $5.4 billion in 2015-16, $29.4 billion in 2016-17, $29 billion …
Forest Growth Accelerating In Canada Due To CO2 ‘Fertilizer Effect’
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are accelerating the growth of B.C.’s forests by one to three per cent a year, enough to cancel out the impact on the climate from the mountain pine beetle outbreak by 2020, according to …
Should Science Fraudsters Go To Jail?
This scientist nearly went to jail for making up data Scientific integrity took another hit Thursday when an Australian researcher received a two-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to 17 fraud-related charges. The main counts against neuroscientist Bruce Murdoch were for …
Letter From Ghana Franklin Cudjoe
Critical debates on issues of immense national importance are mostly held down by personalisation and the utterly distasteful narrow minded road of either ‘black ‘ or ‘white ‘. All other colours within that matter are not considered. The moment one …
Debt-fuelled spending is a disservice to young Canadians
AIMS research analyst Jackson Doughart argues in the National Post that the federal budget does not serve young Canadians well. By kicking the can of debt repayment down the line, it is the next generation of leaders who will have …
Is Internet access a basic right? Should access to high-speed Internet be considered a basic communication service?
That is the question which the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is expected to weigh in today at Lets #TalkBroadband – the regulator’s public hearing on basic telecommunications services. More than 25 000 comments were received by the CRTC during …
Rooftop Solar companies will only play if the game is stacked in their favor Marita Noon
The past couple of weeks have highlighted the folly of the energy policies favored by left-leaning advocacy agencies that, rather than allowing consumers and markets to choose, require government mandates and subsidies. Three major, but very different, solar entities—that would …
This Easter, be grateful for the moneychangers
In the Financial Post, AIMS Senior Fellow Patrick Luciani argues that Bernie Sanders is channeling a well-rehearsed ignorance of the capitalist system, one that finds its roots in the Gospels. Like their authors, Sanders and the Bishop of Rome mistake …
Poll Reveals Voters are Uninformed About Major Issues
By James D. Agresti January 8, 2016 What do voters truly understand about policy issues that have major impacts on society? In the final weeks of 2015, Just Facts commissioned a nationwide poll to scientifically determine this. While most polls …
The Rape of Nanking and the U.S. Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Question: In what way do the atrocities committed by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army in China in 1937-38, especially those included under the rubric of “the Rape of Nanking,” justify the U.S. government’s atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki …
Prosecuting climate chaos skeptics with RICO Al Gore, Torquemada Whitehouse, Democrat AGs threaten to silence and bankrupt skeptics
by Paul Driessen It’s been a rough stretch for Climate Armageddon religionists and totalitarians. Real World science, climate and weather events just don’t support their manmade cataclysm narrative. The horrid consequences of anti-fossil fuel energy policies are increasingly in the …
Verbatim/Whither American Conservatives? Michael Gerson
The Washington Post columnist and former chief speechwriter to President George W. Bush delivered the Cardus Hill Family Lecture at the Manning Centre Conference in Ottawa. He spoke of Donald Trump’s candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination as the attempted …
