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Forest’s new enemies – environmentalists
(December 3, 2003) Four environmental groups and four resource companies yesterday endorsed the giveaway of half of Canada’s great boreal forests to industrial interests. The CEOs of the resource companies deserve credit, of sorts, for actions designed to enrich their shareholders. The CEOs of the environmental groups deserve only censure. Continue reading
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LEDs signal energy revolution
(November 26, 2003) While governments have diddled for decades in the energy marketplace, subsidizing a 500-megawatt nuclear plant here, a 5,000-kilometre Arctic pipeline there, the big energy gains have come via pint-sized innovations in conservation and energy-efficiency. This decade, the biggest little gainers on the planet are LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, those gizmos that first entered the public consciousness in the 1970s through calculators and digital watches. Continue reading
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Move that fire hydrant
(November 19, 2003) Canada’s mayors are thinking big transportation thoughts this week, full of hope that Next- Prime Minister Paul Martin will finance a new era of public transit lines, roadways, trains and other showcase projects. Continue reading
Posted in Automobile, Regulation
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Kangaroo court
(November 15, 2003) Wednesday, Nov. 5: “We’ve been impressed by your recent columns on auto insurance in the Post,” the insurance industry’s public affairs rep tells me over the phone. “would you be willing to go to Fredericton next week and offer your views at a luncheon?” Thus began my adventure into the zany workings of lawmaking in New Brunswick. Continue reading
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Public insurance system will be a disaster, says environmental advocate
(November 13, 2003) New Brunswick: If New Brunswick adopts a public insurance system, it will be a disaster. That from a leading consumer and environmental advocate Larry Solomon. He has studied auto insurance systems across Canada and the world and believes that public auto insurance results in higher deaths and accident rates. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 