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By Michelle Stirling ©2024 On July 5 and 6, 2024, FreedomTalk explored the topic of “The Decline and Fall of the West: Our Choice?” I decided to address the most significant duping of Canadians, ever. I’m referring to the genocide claim of mass graves of children found in a Kamloops orchard made by the Kamloops First Nation on May 27, 2021 – the shock of which allowed the United Nations…

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Stand.Earth’s Misguided Report on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project

Contributed by Robert Lyman©2019

Robert Lyman is an Ottawa energy policy consultant, former public servant and diplomat. His full bio is here. 

Stand.earth recently published a report that allegedly offers the Canadian public information about what the construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project Will Look Like and its social and ecological impacts. Entitled, Seven Construction Hotspots:…

Statistical Tidbit – Give Up Your Car. Who’s First?

Contributed by Robert Lyman © 2019

Robert Lyman is an Ottawa energy policy consultant, former public servant and diplomat. His full bio is here. 

  In 2017, there were 22.7 million light duty vehicles (cars, SUVs and pickup trucks) registered in Canada. They represented 12 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in that year.

  The current federal government target is to reduce GHG emissions by…

Canadians Bamboozled by ‘Meaningless’ Climate Models

Sept. 19, 2019

Canadians Bamboozled by ‘Meaningless’ Climate Models

(CALGARY) Blacklock’s Reporter tweeted a report on Sept. 16, 2019 that Environment Canada ‘omits 100 years of records and uses simulated, not actual data to come up with frightening climate change graphs,’ referring to the new ClimateData.ca collaboration site. Sheila Gunn Reid of The Rebel Media did her own damning investigation

“PAY UP”, Say China and India

Contributed by Robert Lyman © 2019

Robert Lyman is an Ottawa energy policy consultant, former public servant and diplomat. His full bio is here.

In preparation for yet another United Nations “Climate Summit” to be held soon in New York, the representatives of various developing countries have been signaling their concerns and demands relating to what developed countries like Canada should do. In…

The Impossible Logic Chain. Some things won’t die…

Contributed by Robert Lyman © 2019

Robert Lyman is an Ottawa energy policy consultant, former public servant and diplomat.  His full bio is here.

Perhaps it is because Canada is now in an election campaign during which many advocates are trying to move their favourite issue to the top of the public’s agenda. Perhaps, those who believe with almost religious fervor that humans are causing…

What’s Holding Back the Oilsands? A Response to Andrew Leach

Contributed by Robert Lyman © 2019

Robert Lyman is an Ottawa energy policy consultant, former public servant and diplomat. His full bio is  here.

On September 4,  2019, the CBC posted an online article written by Andrew Leachthat claimed that “some politicians and industry representatives” are misrepresenting the real issues facing the oil sands sector. I have seen no public response from the…

Does the world suffer from an intellectual meltdown?

Translation of contribution by Evert Andersson©2019

Why did we stop questioning?

Climate Friday. Choirs sing for the climate. Global climate strike for the future.

Teachers’ magazine with a debate article, which states that students should be allowed to strike from school for the climate.

A church congregation that encourages climate change.

Everyone calls for the politicians to do something.

Wha…

No Right to Know

Contributed by Robert Lyman © 2019

Robert Lyman is an Ottawa energy policy consultant and a former public servant and diplomat. His full bio is here.

  One of the foundational principles of democracy is that the public has a right to know. That right extends to what the government is doing and why. The practical application of this principle lies, in part, in the access that Parliament, the media…

Forget the Dream House – How Net Zero Building Codes May Place House Ownership Beyond Reach

Contributed by Robert Lyman ©2019.  Robert Lyman is a former public servant and diplomat. His full bio is here.

Forget the Dream House Summary

According to a recent Abacus poll, the affordability of housing is the largest concern among young adults in Canada. Every quarter, RBC Economic Research publishes its survey of housing trends and affordability. In the report published in March 2019, RBC…

Bullying Institutional Investors – Does It Work?

Contributed by Robert Lyman © 2019   Robert Lyman is an Ottawa energy policy consultant and former public servant and diplomat. Robert’s full bio can be read here.

  Financial markets constitute an increasingly prominent front in the war waged by those who believe that humans are causing catastrophic global warming against fossil fuel companies. One of their strategies has been to harness the…

What everybody needs to know about the Amazon Rainforest

Contributed by Geraldo Luís Lino* © 2019

  1) The Amazon Rainforest biome has an extension of almost 7 million square kilometers shared between Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam and the French Guyana. Some 60% of it is in Brazil, where 84% of its original area at the time of the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500 A.D. are preserved. This mostly untouched area is…

Satirical Briefing for Prime Minister Elizabeth May

Contributed by Robert Lyman ©2019

  In a recent apocalyptic tweet, Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, warned Canadians that we would face “unsafe levels” of heat and “climate catastrophe” if we do not transition off fossil fuels before the next election. It has charitably been interpreted that “by the next election” she meant four year from now (i.e. 2023). I thought that it might be…

Elections Canada and Climate – An Open Letter Rebuttal to 352 Scientists and Evidence for Democracy

Stéphane Perrault Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Elections Canada

30 Victoria Street

Gatineau, Quebec

K1A 0M6

August 27, 2019

  Dear M. Stéphane Perrault,

Re: ENGO charity spending during the election period and reference to climate change;

Thank you to Elections Canada for recognizing that climate change has become a political issue. Since environmental non-governmental…

Greenland Climate Catastrophe Melt Debunked

© 2019 Friends of Science Society has received a number of inquiries about a recent terrifying article in the Washington Post. To help calm people down, we are publishing a response to one of our readers. The statement “if Greenland’s Ice mass would melt ..” is as meaningless as “if the Moon crashed into the Earth …” or “if pigs could fly …”.The total volume of the Greenland ice sheet is…

Global Warming: Fact or Fiction? Featuring Physicists Willie Soon and Elliott Bloom

Reposted from the Independent Institute:

    Is global warming real? Have any such predictions been established scientifically? Would massive “carbon” taxes and other controls put America and the world—especially the poor—at great risk?

At this special event, geoscientist and astrophysicist Willie Soon separates fact from fiction…