Reading Time: 3 minutes Reducing red tape allows for innovative solutions to housing for growing populations, ultimately lowering housing costs
Author: Ken Green
Gloomy report misrepresents Canada’s environmental performance
Reading Time: 3 minutes Contrary to the Conference Board report, Canada’s environmental performance is one of the country’s great success stories
Alberta budget confirms ‘revenue recycling’ code for tax and spend
Reading Time: 3 minutes Any conceivable tax increase is revenue recycling if the money is used to fund anything the government deems an “investment” in Albertans
B.C.’s LNG export dreams may be over
Reading Time: 3 minutes May miss out on supplying liquefied natural gas to Asian and global markets because of opposition and delays in the approval process
Higher energy prices fueling energy poverty in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Five out of the seven regions measured in a Fraser Institute study had higher percentages of energy poverty in 2013 than they did in 2010
Wynne ignores lessons about the pitfalls of cap and trade
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ontarian households are going to feel the pain, while politically connected industries will reap a windfall
Loss of Ontario cropland exaggerated
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ontario cropland has increased since the 1950s, while farming efficiency also improved
Canada’s new GHG emissions requirements will inflict widespread pain
Reading Time: 3 minutes As always, the Trudeau government announces lofty goals short on devilish details
Kudos, and caveats, for Alberta’s royalty review
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recommendation that the provincial government “seize opportunities to enhance value-added processing” could turn into a fiasco
New climate tests for pipelines unnecessary
Reading Time: 3 minutes Transporting oil by pipeline rather than rail or tanker may actually lower GHG emissions