Lawrence Solomon: It’s in our interest to break Syria into pieces

(September 1, 2011) If Assad is given the boot, the West should take charge and break it up.

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Windmills: If you see one of these starting to smoke…RUN!

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Parker Gallant: OPG’s creative accounting

(September 1, 2011) Ontario Power Generation recently released its 2nd Quarter results.  On the surface all seems well with OPG — it announced an after tax (Payments in Lieu of taxes) profit for the quarter of $114 million for the 6 months ended June 30, 2011 versus $40 million for the comparable quarter in 2010.

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Lawrence Solomon: Science getting settled

(August 27, 2011) New, convincing evidence indicates global warming is caused by cosmic rays and the sun — not humans.

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Aldyen Donnelly: California stars and Canadian environmentalist protest Alberta heavy oil

(August 24, 2011) Californian stars and Canadian environmentalists protest Alberta heavy oil while making no effort to stop the California regulators from going out of their way to over-allocate excess free GHG quota to subsidize more GHG-intensive California heavy oil.

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Parker Gallant: Turning OEFC’s “Stranded Debt” into Political Spin

(August 22, 2011) The Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation (OEFC) generally has its annual report completed by mid to late June or just a couple of months after its March 31st year-end.  The public doesn’t get to see the report until it has been tabled in the Ontario Legislature by the Finance Minister and that process for the past several years can take as much as a full year. This year the first part of the pattern was normal however; the March 31, 2011 annual report has just been released without the aforementioned tabling of the report by the Finance Minister in the Legislature.   The Auditor General’s report is dated June 21, 2011 but the Legislature has not sat since June 1, 2011 so we must conclude the report has not been tabled. 

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Lawrence Solomon: Tyranny of the north

(August 19, 2011) Alberta passes draconian laws abolishing property rights.

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Parker Gallant: Hydro One’s free pass

(August 17, 2011) Hydro One’s financial statements are out, yet despite all of the media attention about the electricity sector in Ontario, the financial results of the publicly owned power utilities attract no attention. Odd, since they are the instruments that the government uses to execute its controversial policies under the Green Energy Act. Continue reading

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Aldyen Donnelly: Reality according to real data

(August 8, 2011) A number of Canada’s leading economists are far from objective when it comes to their tax and energy policy prescriptions, and they may sometimes produce opinion pieces that are not well-founded on fact. 

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Lawrence Solomon: Atwood’s library

(August 5, 2011) Time for public libraries to update their outdated business model.

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