News Release Friday, February 5, 2016 Toronto Board reverses decision to ban Christian group from Yonge-Dundas Square TORONTO: On February 4, 2016, the Yonge-Dundas Square (YDS) Board of Management reversed the October 2015 decision of YDS staff to ban Voices of the Nations (VOTN) from Yonge-Dundas Square. The Board has directed that a permit be granted to VOTN to http://www.jccf.ca/
Shining a light on solar energy myths (blog)
Green Energy Futures investigates the veracity of some common solar myths. http://www.pembina.org/
CTV Power Play with May and Mason Elizabeth May and Rideau Institute President Peggy Mason
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and Rideau Institute President Peggy Mason discuss the new Liberal plan for countering ISIS with Don Martin of CTV Power Play. Click here for both interviews: Don Martin Power Play with Elizabeth May and Peggy Mason (CTV.ca, 9 Feb 2016). The Mason interview begins at the… http://www.rideauinstitute.ca/category/blog/
Acquisitions au Québec par des entreprises étrangères: toujours une excellente nouvelle
www.quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/mathieu-bedard, p. web Vente du quincaillier québécois Rona à la firme américaine Lowe’s.en lire plus http://www.iedm.org
Science vs. Sanctimony COP21 The epicenter of sanctimonious behavior
by Paul Driessen If one were to pinpoint the epicenter of sanctimonious behavior the past two weeks, he or she look no further than Paris. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, or COP21) has been a magnet for shareholder activists, nuns, clergy and other religious intent on furthering agendas ostensibly geared toward mitigating manmade global warming, but in reality promote hardship and energy poverty across the economic spectrum. Mind you, this writer grew up under the tutelage of nuns, and found many of them to be knowledgeable in their respective subject matter …
Fraser Institute/MEI Publication: Couillard government’s spending under control, but the tax burden remains excessive Montreal, February 4, 2016 – A ranking comparing the relative fiscal and budgetary performance of the provincial premiers puts the current Quebec government in second place among its peers.
Montreal, February 4, 2016 – A ranking comparing the relative fiscal and budgetary performance of the provincial premiers puts the current Quebec government in second place among its peers. This ranking measures government spending, corporate and individual taxes, and deficits and debt. With an overall score of 78.2 out of 100, the
Base policies on reality, not deceit Climate frequently changes, and we must prepare to adapt.
Dangerous manmade global cooling, global warming, climate change and extreme weather claims continue to justify what has become a $1.5-trillion-per-year industry: tens of billions spent annually on one-sided research and hundreds of billions sent to crony corporatists to subsidize replacing dependable, affordable carbon-based fuels with unreliable, expensive “renewable” energy. Some 50 million acres of US crop and habitat land (equal to Wyoming) have been turned into corn-for-ethanol farms, biofuel plantations, and wind and solar installations. American forests are being converted to fuel for British power plants. Towering turbines butcher birds and bats, while Big Wind …
The Moral and Economic Poverty of the Lottery The allure of life changing money!
January 19, 2016 by Jordan Ballor The nationwide furor has died down a bit after the $1.586 billion Powerball lottery jackpot was split three ways last Wednesday. This week’s $50 million jackpot may seem rather paltry after the record-setting prize, but the allure of life-changing money will continue to attract players from around the country. While lottery commissions promote their schemes as good for the public as well as the individual players, lotteries are actually mechanisms to impoverish, both morally and economically, the populace. Far from a force for good, lotteries are a danger to …
International Food Prices Down Global warming alarmists wrong again!
Despite dire predictions of famine caused by the effects of global warming, for the fourth year in a row international food prices dipped by 19 per cent in the last year, the fourth consecutive annual fall, due to substantial decline in dairy, sugar and veg oil prices according to the United Nations food agency. The maximum fall was witnessed in dairy prices, which fell by 28.5 per cent compared to 2014, marking its lowest since 2009. It was followed by sugar prices, which were down by 21 from 2014 levels, as per the FAO price …
Oil for the Ages Disruptive Innovation
Thanks to the U.S.-led revolution in fracking, oil is abundant. It will be for decades, if not centuries, because there is shale everywhere in the world. And unlike the megaprojects that have dominated the oil industry over the past several decades, shale can be tapped by smaller companies with less capital. The oil market, as OPEC has learned to its sorrow, is now much more difficult to control. This is capitalist creative destruction. But nowadays it happens on Internet-time, so it’s also “disruptive innovation.” Fracking is to the global oil industry what Uber is to …
Terrorism in Israel and The United States The Beltway sniper offers lessons on Israel’s continuing struggles with Palestinians
Paul Driessen and Glenn Taubman When we planned our recent trip to Israel with 50 other Northern Virginians, we didn’t expect that it would coincide with the latest spasm of Palestinian violence against Israelis. We didn’t anticipate that this new war would be more insidious than past “intifadas,” with almost daily violence coming out of nowhere, with no warning, rhyme or reason. No one is exempt. Old people have been stabbed and brutalized on city streets; so have young mothers with toddlers, rabbis in study halls, students in cars, people praying. Soldiers have been attacked …
Binding climate treaty now voluntary mush But Obama still wants to send US energy use and living standards backward.
[wpv-post-body view_template=”credentials-in-articles”] Paris climate talks became frenzied, as delegates desperately tried to salvage an agreement beyond empty promises to do something sometime about what President Obama insists is the gravest threat to our planet, national security and future generations. Determined for once to lead from upfront, he took a 500-person greenhouse gas-spewing entourage to the City of Light, to call for preventing increasing droughts, floods, storms, island-swallowing rising acidic ocean levels, and other disasters conjured up by alarmist computer models. Legally binding carbon dioxide emission targets were too contentious to pursue. So was modifying “differentiated …
