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The U.S. Electorate's Message to Canada: Diversify Quickly
Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal On November 6, 2012, the citizens of the United States decided to maintain, essentially, the status quo: they re-elected Barack Obama as President, left the United States House of Representatives solidly in ...
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An opportunity to give British Columbia its fair share
Appeared in the Financial Post and Vancouver Sun Following the U.S. governments delay in approving the much-hyped Keystone XL pipeline, many pundits turned their attention to the possibility of a new pipeline from the oilsands to BCs west coast that ...
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Beware the hidden costs of bike sharing programs
Appeared in the Vancouver Sun The High Priests of the Green Religion in Vancouver City Hall are about to please their supporters with another innovation that will save Mother Earth from the users of automobiles who poison the atmosphere with carbon ...
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Windmill Blowback
Appeared in the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, Edmonton Sun, Calgary Sun, Winnipeg Sun, and Kenora Miner and News Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy deserves credit for a number of courageous policy decisions during his presidency. Bringing France back ...
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City council needs to come clean on the costs of its green dreams
Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Vancouvers Vision-dominated city council has never made any secret of its desire to turn the city into an environmental paradise. And with the recent introduction of its Greenest City 2020 Action Plan, Vancouverites now have ...
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Cat Is out of the Bag on Green Shopping
Appeared in the Detroit News With the arrival of reusable grocery bags, there appeared to be, at long last, a definitive eco-friendly answer to that question posed daily to consumers: Paper or plastic? Alas, it was not to be. Researchers recently ...
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Critical Topics in Global Warming
The issue of global warming is the subject of two parallel debates: one scientific, focused on the analysis of complex and conflicting data; the other political, addressing what is the proper response of government to a hypothetical risk. https://www ...
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Is Canada Really an Environmental Laggard?
Appeared in the Hamilton Spectator and Peace River Block News With Earth Day fresh in our mind, its an appropriate time to reflect on several widely-circulated reports that paint Canada as such an environmental laggard that we supposedly rank 28th out of ...
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Independent Summary for Policymakers
The Independent for Policymakers is a detailed and thorough overview of the state of climate change science as laid out in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) draft report. This independent summary has been reviewed by more ...
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Can Markets Save Canada's National Parks?
There is no question that Canada's parks and protected areas enrich the quality of life of Canadians, providing us with valuable recreational and environmental amenities. Unfortunately, the politics of park management have prevented Parks Canada from ...