Lawrence Solomon: How Trump shattered the alliance between environmentalists and Big Labour

(June 9, 2016) The stage is set for a knock ‘em down, drag ‘em out fight with Donald Trump making an unapologetic play for the hardhat vote and Hillary Clinton promising to “put coal miners out of work” and all but eliminate fracking.

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California dreamin’ in Ontario

(June 1, 2016) Ontario’s cap and trade backers are excited for the billions of dollars in new money the scheme will create. California shows why the reality might be much different.

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Lawrence Solomon: Trump’s secret? Saying things about global warming, vaccines and Israel that no one else will

(May 26, 2016) The Trump coalition isn’t based on any single ideology or any consistent set of rational policies.

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Lawrence Solomon: Give humans some credit for creating species, not just blame for harming them

(May 19, 2016) More benign than nature, and more sentimental about protecting species, humanity deserves more recognition.

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Clearing the air

(May 19, 2016) Ontario’s Minister of Energy made a number of misleading and inaccurate statements on TVO’s “The Agenda”.  Continue reading

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Ontario climate change plan could spike hydro, natural gas rates

(May 17, 2016) $7-billion plan seeks to phase out natural gas.
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I knew Jane Jacobs, and everything urban lefties say about her is wrong

(May 12, 2016) Jane was anything but anti-development and anti-change. Her thinking transcended cities to include economic development and wealth creation generally.

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Lawrence Solomon: How ‘environmentalism’ became America’s dirty word

(April 29, 2016) The public no longer buys the view that the economy should play second fiddle to the environment.

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A new debt retirement charge for Ontario electricity customers

(April 27, 2016) The reprieve is over. Those “dead” assets still require paying off.

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Toronto Hydro customers face 18% rate hike in 2016

(April 21, 2016) Power bills for Toronto Hydro’s residential customers are set to increase by 18% in May compared to the same time last year. Continue reading

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