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1. ‘Eat local’ food movement doomed to fail in Ontario and beyond

   Appeared in National Newswatch, November 19, 2019 Across Ontario, “local food” activists continue to promote the economic, social and environmental virtues of small local alternative farms, community gardens, backyard henhouses and older, less-efficient ...

2. Plastic bag bans may do more harm than good

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, June 26, 2019 Last week, Prime Minister Trudeau announced plans to ban “single-use plastics”—possibly bags, straws and cutlery among other plastic things. "We need to cover all of Canada with this decision,” he ...

3. Canada’s air quality is much improved—no need for more costly regulation

   Appeared in the Financial Post, April 21, 2017 This Saturday is Earth Day, a worldwide celebration of environmental protection. Canadians care about the environment, especially the quality of the air we breathe. According to a survey conducted in 2016 by ...

4. It’s official—Ontario’s coal phase-out was all for nothing

   Appeared in the Financial Post, January 17, 2017 The federal Liberal government plans to impose a national coal phase-out, based on the same faulty arguments used in Ontario, namely that such a move will yield significant environmental benefits and reduce ...

5. A federal carbon tax—a cash grab that could damage the economy

   Provincial carbon taxes will continue to distort energy markets, raise energy and food prices, and reduce economic competitiveness. ...

6. Gloomy report misrepresents Canada’s environmental performance

   Canada’s greenhouse gas levels have been declining since 2005. ...

7. Ban on oil tankers—what happened to evidence-based policy?

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, November 25, 2015 During the recent election campaign, the new federal government committed to pursuing evidence-based public policy. In the mandate letters delivered to each minister at the end of last week, there’s a ...

8. Pope’s enviro-encyclical fallible in so many ways

   As pretty much everyone in the world knows by now, Pope Francis published an encyclical recently On Care for Our Common Home, which discusses all things environmental—climate change, of course, but also air pollution, water pollution, sustainable ...

9. Canada’s greenhouse gas story: better than advertised

   Appeared in the National Post A new report from the government of Canada, on Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2013, is making news. And as usual, the bad news leads. The media focus is on the probability that Canada will miss its Copenhagen ...

10. Oil-train derailments in Canada expose folly of anti-pipeline movement

    Appeared in the Financial Post Four recent oil-train derailments—two in the United States and two in Canada accompanied by yet another drive-by rhetorical smear of the Keystone XL pipeline by U.S. President Barack Obama—have re-invigorated the debate over ...