MP to lecture university students on “why Stephen Harper is good for science”

Published February 3, 2015

UPDATE: Following the publication of this post, the “Why Stephen Harper is Good for Science” lecture was cancelled. For more details, please scroll to bottom of the post. Is Stephen Harper good for science? According to one Conservative minister, the answer is a resounding YES! That’s exactly what the young, impressionable minds at Queen’s […]

Fraser Institute marks Earth Day by publishing its dumbest report yet

Published April 22, 2014

What is the secret to cleaner air? According to the Fraser Institute’s latest study, the answer is economic freedom — or the absence of government meddling. The right wing think tank’s latest contribution to the corpus of human knowledge, released on Earth Day, purports to have discovered that “air pollution declines as economic freedom rises.” Except, if […]

3 things you need to know about conservative gabfest keynote

Published February 28, 2014

When right-wing writer Mark Steyn takes the stage Saturday to close out the two-day Manning Networking Conference, he’ll be carrying plenty of baggage on stage with him. Let’s set aside the fact that Steyn will be the 63rd guy (compared to 12 women panelists) speaking at the gathering to strategize about the “next steps for […]

Rex Murphy and Big Oil: friends with benefits?

Published February 4, 2014

Rex Murphy has long admired Canada’s oil and gas industry from afar, it seemed. Like the protagonist in William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, Murphy has delivered many romantic soliloquies to the tar sands from his weekly soapbox on The National, the flagship news show of Canada’s public broadcaster. And he’s penned many eloquent, passion-stirring opinion pieces […]

This is what an unmuzzled scientist looks like

Published January 9, 2014

The White House just did something you’ll likely never see from Stephen Harper’s office: release a YouTube video linking the polar vortex to climate change. “A growing body of evidence suggests that the kind of extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States as we speak is a pattern that we can expect […]

Did a Tory MP’s polar vortex just thaw out government climate skepticism?

Published January 7, 2014

Dear Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq, Your caucus colleague, Conservative MP Peter Braid, says extreme weather episodes in Canada are linked to man-made climate change. Appearing on CBC’s Power and Politics on Monday, the parliamentary secretary for infrastructure said so to Evan Solomon, who asked Braid whether your government believed climate change was real. Braid went […]