Reading Time: 4 minutes A review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Month: April 2018
Pipeline opposition largely funded by rich Americans
Reading Time: 3 minutes To maintain secrecy, large U.S. environmental foundations simply “purchased” the co-operation of Canadian organizations to stop Alberta oil from reaching international markets
Time to unplug Manitoba Hydro
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Crown corporation is an archaic operation based on faulty principles, bad management and outdated market conditions
Business confidence in Canada is collapsing
Reading Time: 4 minutes And the reason why is obvious
Comeau ruling defies economic – and common – sense
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Supreme Court ruling that there’s no ‘constitutional guarantee of free trade’ will stifle both competition and lower prices for consumers
Social justice warriors love diversity, except of opinions
Reading Time: 4 minutes Would you want your favourite sports team to choose its players based on diversity, or on the best players out there?
Trans Mountain a pipeline to prosperity and stability
Reading Time: 3 minutes First Nations support pipelines, including Trans Mountain. Abandoning the project will be a severe blow to those communities
The Marshall Plan wasn’t a silver bullet
Reading Time: 3 minutes Called ‘the most generous act of any people, anytime, anywhere, to another people,‘ the post-war economic boost still had flaws
China may balk at Taiwan entry into resurrected TPP
Reading Time: 3 minutes From Canada’s viewpoint, considerations like global security, freedom, human rights and democracy support Taiwan’s case
Talking the talk, walking the walk of disruptive innovation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s oil and gas sector needs to move forward in brave new ways, and that requires a new level of sharing and communication