I gave up Twitter in 2019. I decided to focus on getting out research, not responding to tweets from twits.
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Australia’s job count rose to 38,116 by 2019 from 12,919 jobs in 2010. That’s a whopping 195 per cent.
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Canada’s second-biggest export sector over three decades and its biggest export industry in 2018 and 2019.
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No matter the cause, mob rule is one of the shortest and most direct routes towards undermining our society – all of it.
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Here’s how to understand and escape from 2020’s protests, pandemic, and an erratic president. A few suggestions to feed your mind and soul.
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Milton Friedman spent his lifetime educating the public and politicians against the anti-reality economics of the political and ideological left, but they are cited sympathetically in Abbott’s book.
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When those intent on turning a temporary public health measure—mask-wearing—into a freedom issue akin to the American Revolution, they fail to make proper distinctions and direct their energies to actual, useful ends.
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This debate became acute after the August 2020 poisoning of Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which German Chancellor Angela Merkel, among others, blamed on the Kremlin.
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That $493 billion in oil and gas taxes paid for a lot of school lunches, kids’ clothes, runners, after-school lessons and much else.
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Lesson One: Tyranny is a permanent feature of humanity and is not going away.
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Churchill was a classic liberal and saw individuals as individuals first, which meant he often, eventually defaulted to positions that took into account the needs of those too often ignored by his aristocratic colleagues.
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Although the Chief Constable of the Vancouver police diligently enforced liquor laws, that responsibility nevertheless did not “prevent him from ensuring the Churchills were well-provided with liquor.”
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Some American states have benefitted from Canada’s natural gas stagnation.
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Average British Columbia premiums for motorists were only cheaper than Alberta in one year out of twenty—and by two bucks.
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Most “local” economies greatly depend on investment and purchases from somewhere else.
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From First Nations to federal finances, any sober analysis about the importance of oil and gas to Canada’s future — GDP, jobs, incomes, or tax revenues — cannot be understated.
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What world population declines may do to environmental debates
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The reality is that domestic oil consumption needs will be met either by Canadian sources, or with imported foreign oil.
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The population of the Lower Mainland has grown. It’s not unreasonable to expect infrastructure needs to grow with it.
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As to where the $477 billion in foreign oil imports between 1988 and 2019 ended up, fully $225 billion or 47 per cent of all foreign oil flowed into Quebec
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