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Here are three suggestions for you, the global political leaders:

Depoliticize climate science, discarding computer models that do not match reality, focusing instead on real-world climate observations and the latest climate science, listening carefully to objective interventions from independent experts.
Change climate policy from the senseless mitigation approach to the successful adaptation method. Mitigation is prohibitively expensive and has never saved a single human life and will do very little to alter an ever-changing climate. Adaptation, on the other hand, is affordable, can be precisely focused and has already saved millions of lives. Adaptation is without a doubt the way to go in climate policy.
Invest in extending and replenishing the world’s oil & gas reserves. Be realistic, the world will still need oil and gas for several decades. In parallel, go full steam ahead with developing nuclear power, the energy source of the future.

Teachers’ strike vs. Truckers’ convoy – have we lost the will to fight unpopular government?

November 4, 2022 Rita Smith

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) may be mis-reading the mood of the public and the press in planning for an illegal strike on November 4^th.

CUPE represents school custodians, administrative staff and educational assistants in Ontario.

While in years past these workers might have hoped for automatic support from parents, the public and the mainstream media, they may find out that 2022 is a tough time to ask for sympathy – or money.

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Back when everybody doth protested too much

November 2, 2022 Rita Smith

I have taken to identifying myself in recent columns as “one of the most protested political staffers in Canada’s history.” I am not sure this is a title to which anyone really wants to lay claim, but I’m putting this

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The quality of longevity: instant gratification seems to mean near-instant breakdown, too

October 30, 2022 Mike Murchison

We, as a country that formerly manufactured things like freezers, lawnmowers, drills, vehicles and a lot of other things, traded our “quality control” overseeing for “ease of convenience” strategies.

Things are not built to last anymore. They are built to give us a sense of immediate gratification, only to be followed by that horrendous sound of silence. That thing we just bought won’t turn on, light up or go whoosh when the switch thingy is flicked.

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Millions of Americans Were Assigned ‘COVID-19 Violation’ Scores Based on Cellphone Data Collected During Lockdowns

October 30, 2022 Guest Contributor

A voter analytics firm harvested data from millions of Americans’ cellphones during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns and used the data to assign phone users a “COVID-19 decree violation” score and a “COVID-19 concern” score, according to a whitepaper released by PredictWise, the firm that harvested the data.

Christine Van Geyn, Litigation Director at the Canadian Constitution Foundation. Photo: YouTube

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CCF summary of Sloly’s Commission Testimony

October 29, 2022 RWN Staff

Christine Van Geyn Photo: YouTube Christine Van Geyn, Litigation Director for the Canadian Constitution Foundation, provides her summary of former police Chief Sloly’s testimony at the Rouleau Commission on October 28th.

Whitby's short-lived "self-driving shuttle" pilot project did not operate in heavy rain or snow, yet it still managed to jump the curb, hit a tree and injure its safety attendent. What I found most impressive about the press conference was how articulate the corporate spokeswoman was: she had persuasive answers for every question. Photo: Colin Williamson

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Autonomous vehicles: cross jurisdictional regulatory perspectives update

October 26, 2022 Guest Contributor

Since the release of our regulatory perspectives article in 2021, there have been a variety of regulatory and policy developments around the world regarding the use of autonomous vehicles (AV or AVs).

In addition to highlighting recent developments for the operation of AVs in Japan, the U.K., the European Union, the U.S., and China, jurisdictions of South America, Australia, New Zealand and India are poised to make significant strides in developing regulatory landscapes conducive to the development of autonomous vehicles.

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New Carbon Tax, Same Price Tags

October 23, 2022 Guest Contributor

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government keeps insisting on one new expensive energy policy after another, and all of these efforts are designed to make energy unaffordable for Canadians.

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Ottawa secrets: Cops actually posed for photos with the most famous protest vehicle

October 23, 2022 Guest Contributor

I have to tell you about the morning Alexis and I left for Ottawa.

It started in Oshawa on an extremely cold morning on the Thursday, January 27th. We threw our bags in the wagon and off we went in a 1981 Kenworth W900A day cab with too much wheelbase. As we rolled on down the road laughing about our rolling billboard behind us, Alexis kept me updated on any new convoy news.

Now ya gotta remember, we thought there were people already there from pics we had seen. We stopped in Joyceville where we grabbed a drink and yes, got flipped off. Little did I know, little Miss Alexis liked being in the big truck and would later go get her “Class A”…oopsy, my bad.