VIDEO: Sun TV smears Preston Manning for speaking out on climate change

Published November 25, 2014

This won’t end well. Sun TV fired first in what could be the beginning of a nasty civil war within Canada’s conservative movement. Preston Manning, founding father of the modern conservative movement and head of the right-wing Manning Centre, made a pair of surprising appearances recently in the Globe and Mail challenging Canadian conservatives to […]

Conservative candidate tells CBC that renewable energy supporters are “extremists”

Published November 18, 2014

Holy black-and-white logic, Ron Liepert! Liepert, a former Alberta Energy Minister and Conservative candidate for Calgary Signal Hill in the upcoming 2015 election, delivered a master class in ad hominem reasoning this week for listeners of CBC Radio’s The Current. Debating the Keystone pipeline with Greenpeace Canada’s Keith Stewart, Liepert repeatedly complained of “extreme environmentalists” […]

WATCH: Conservative shrugs off own department’s greenhouse gas projections as just “opinion”

Published November 17, 2014

The Environment Minister’s own point man is dismissing Environment Canada’s projections on greenhouse gas emissions reductions as just an “opinion.” Colin Carrie, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment, made the statement Sunday while appearing on Global’s The West Block on behalf of his boss, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq. “Well, everybody’s entitled to their […]

Canada has the worst climate change record in the industrialized world

Published October 28, 2014

This is embarrassing. Canada is dead last among industrialized nations in a new climate change performance index. The index takes into account a variety of indicators related to greenhouse gas emissions, development of emissions, climate policy, renewable energy and energy efficiency. online pharmacy norvasc for sale no prescription pharmacy Canada particularly stands out when comparing its […]

VIDEO: Conservative climate change credibility disappearing at alarming rate

Published October 8, 2014

After the release of a devastating environmental audit on Tuesday from a federal watchdog, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq tapped her parliamentary assistant, Colin Carrie, to deal with the media. Poor guy. The audit of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development found, among other things: The government has no specific plan to meet its greenhouse gas […]

RED ALERT: Guy at Fraser Institute is pretty sure he just debunked climate change science

Published October 2, 2014

A full 97% of scientists agree that climate change is real and it’s happening. But one economist — and senior fellow at the Fraser Institute who has previously stated that climate change science is “held together by duct tape” — appears to think otherwise. In a new report released Thursday by the right-wing institute, Ross McKitrick sets out again to […]

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