Category: climate change

Brian Giesbrecht: Climate Change Extremism Is Leading the World to Disaster

Commentary Sometimes, the significance of a cataclysmic event is not immediately apparent. The bombing of Pearl Harbor was an event that shocked the world. Many realized—even as it was happening—that it would bring America into a war it didn’t want to be in. But few predicted what would follow. The end of World War II…


Left-Wing Greens Could Influence Government to Enable ‘Destructive’ Policies: Shadow Environment Minister

Australia’s Shadow Environment Minister has warned that the left-wing Australian Greens party will push the centre-left Labor government to implement tough environmental laws, which could come at the expense of the economy. The comment comes as Labor’s Climate Change Bill is set to go before the lower house on Wednesday, with the Greens’ votes needed…


California Water Board Official Quits, Says State Isn’t Doing Enough for Climate Change

California state water board’s climate change manager Max Gomberg resigned after a decade of service, saying Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration wasn’t doing enough to curb climate change. Gomberg resigned July 16 after criticizing his colleagues at the State Water Resources Control Board, alleging the board has taken the middle ground between environmental advocates and industry…


Manchin Says Deal Reached With Schumer on New Version of BBB Bill Over Energy, Taxes, Health Care

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced on July 27 that he has reached a deal with Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on energy, taxes, and health care, to advance a revised, alternate version to the Build Back Better (BBB) bill. The new spending package, now dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,” will “address record inflation…


Manchin Says Deal Reached With Schumer on New BBB Bill Over Energy, Taxes, Health Care

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced on July 27 that he has reached a deal with Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on energy, taxes, and health care to advance what appears to be a revised, alternate version to the Build Back Better (BBB) bill. The new spending package, now dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act of…


Manchin Says Deal Reached With Democrats on New Version of BBB Bill Over Energy, Taxes, Health Care

Sen. Joe Manchin (R-W.Va.) announced on July 27 that he has reached a deal with Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on energy, taxes, and health care, to advance a revised, alternate version to the Build Back Better (BBB) bill. The new spending package, now dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,” will “address record inflation…


Peter Menzies: Under the Liberals, the Hammer Keeps Smashing Down on Western Canada’s Leading Industries

Commentary The Trudeau government has launched a fresh new offensive in its economic war on Western Canada—once again under the guise of a brutally ill-conceived climate policy. Oblivious to the consequences and unprepared to offer alternatives, federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau let her provincial counterparts know last week that there would be no compromise on…


250 Left-Wing Activists Plan to Disrupt Congressional Baseball Game

Activists organized by Shut Down DC are making plans to disrupt the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity on July 28, to protest pollution and climate change. About 110 activists met on Zoom on July 25 to discuss how to create a disruption at the annual bipartisan game. Activists said the protest would be nonviolent but…


Joe’s Dubious Oil Slick

Commentary “Don’t they know it’s the end of the world …” — Skeeter Davis, 1962 President Biden has repeated a story he has told before, but repetition does not necessarily make it true. Speaking last week in Somerset, Massachusetts, where a coal-fired power plant once stood, Biden again recalled growing up in Claymont, Delaware, where he said…


MP Calls to Support Canadian Farmers in Pushing Back Against Policies Impacting Farming

A Conservative MP is calling on Canadian consumers to support farmers as the federal government pushes policies to reduce fertilizer emissions, which he said are hurting the farming industry and leading to higher food prices. “Farmers and consumers around the world are pushing back. They’re pushing back against the European Union’s farm-to-fork agenda, which is…