In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask how people can continue to believe in the competence, wisdom and compassion of government when they have daily evidence of its inept and callous folly.
In my latest National Post column I ridicule the notion that Canada must bring in half a million immigrants a year to build homes for the half-million immigrants we bring in a year to build homes for all the immigrants.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I berate Canadian “conservative” politicians for being as clueless about how to avoid wedge issues as they are spineless about how to approach them.
“unlike traditional commodities, which sometimes during the course of their market exchange must be delivered to someone in physical form, the carbon market is based on the lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no one.”
Mark Schapiro (apparently) in Harper’s in early 2010 [I found it here https://www.integrity-research.com/wanted-independent-research-to-assess-carbon-offsets/ but the link back to Harper’s is broken, as is a similar link in another piece quoting it; perhaps Harper’s pulled it; this piece attributes it to Mark Schapiro: https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/columns/air-travel-major-contributor-to-climate-change/].
In my latest National Post column I highlight the hypocrisy of Justin Trudeau about fighting global warming while having a huge carbon footprint, and climate alarmists generally about following “the science” while peddling junk numbers.
In my latest Epoch Times column I call the rather vague Wall Street Journal article about a U.S. government report on the COVID lab leak theory very good news because it means the possibility is being debated not cancelled.
“That [President George W. Bush saying price controls wouldn’t solve California’s energy problems], sniffed last Sunday’s New York Times, was just ‘Econ 101.’ What the President needed was a lesson in Econ 90210, presented by the Department of Sarah Polley-Sci.”
Peter Foster in National Post June 8, 2001
In my latest Epoch Times column I defend the desire of normal people to protect pleasant neighbourhoods from social engineering cement.