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Time for a vision of Ontario’s economy

(September 29, 2008) TD Bank Financial Group Continue reading

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Global cooling sign: Solar winds at 50-year-low

(September 28, 2008) In yet another sign that the Earth could be heading in to a period of global cooling, NASA reports that the solar wind is now at a 50-year low, the lowest that NASA has seen. This change in solar activity, which began to occur about a decade ago, coincides with the end of the climb in global temperatures that had been underway for decades. Continue reading

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Oil sands cleanup

(September 13, 2008) The public debate on oil sands fails to recognize that restoration is possible and not that expensive. Continue reading

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Oil sands cleanup

(September 13, 2008) The public debate on oil sands fails to recognize that restoration is possible and not that expensive. Continue reading

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Sands of peace

(September 6, 2008) Russia’s energy supplies enabled their aggression, Canada’s supply could be the placating alternative. Continue reading

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Conservatives miss Wikipedia’s threat

(August 21, 2008) Wikipedia, the community-edited encyclopedia that anyone can revise, is one of the Web’s biggest success stories. What you may not know is that it also has become an important player in the political world. Continue reading

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Slim Pickens

Oil imports are destroying the U. S., say a rising tide of alarmists in the U. S., chief among them T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil man turned wind power developer. "It is a clear and growing threat to our national security, and our national economy," he testified to the U. S. Senate. "It has to be stopped. We are on the verge of losing our Super Power status."

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Solar radio waves could signal global cooling

(August 11, 2008) Those who view the Sun, and not CO2, as a driver of temperatures on Earth look to various measures of solar activity for explanations of climate change. or one such measure — radio waves from the Sun, or solar flux — they look to Canada’s Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in the Okanagan valley, near Penticton, British Columbia. What they find supports the view that another Little Ice Age could be coming. Continue reading

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Climate change

SIDC http://sidc.oma.be

The Solar Influences Data Analysis Center — SIDC — is the solar physics research department of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, a data analysis service of the Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical data analysis Service, and the World Data Center for the Sunspot Index.
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Radioactive part was missing at Bruce plant

(July 26) A radioactive part was missing for almost two months at the Bruce nuclear plant before a worker walking through an area called “the vault” discovered the problem after his radiation detector went off, writes Tyler Hamilton in the Toronto Star. Continue reading

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