FUREY: The carbon tax ruling is judicial activism at its worst

This is exhaust from an industrial site, in Winnipeg. Friday, February 28/2020. SunMedia

 

Take a look at a couple of sentences about climate change that appeared Thursday concerning the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling on the carbon tax.

These theatrical flourishes were from the SCOC ruling itself. Right there in the text of the majority decision that ruled the federal government does indeed have the right to run roughshod over provincial jurisdiction and impose a carbon tax on provinces against their will. Because not even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself regularly uses climate change language that over-the-top. Liberal government press releases discussing the carbon tax that feature quotes from Trudeau and former environment minister Catherine McKenna don’t come close to that sort of rhetoric.

REDMAN: Canada has failed to properly manage COVID-19 emergency

 

Emergency management

Since 1955, this is the world’s fifth pandemic. We have never responded to a pandemic like we have over COVID-19. In Canada, we have an emergency management process that we normally use in a pandemic. We have pre-written pandemic response plans.

The aim of these plans is to allow our leaders to rapidly minimize the impact of the new pandemic on our society. The purpose in writing these plans in advance is to ensure the government could rapidly advise the public of the scope of the new hazard, and publicly issue a complete written plan to address it. That way, the public can see the entire plan, see the phases of the plan, and all steps that will be taken. The public then understands their role in the plan.

Sweden saw lower 2020 death spike than much of Europe - data

People enjoy the sun at an outdoor restaurant, despite the continuing spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Stockholm, Sweden March 26, 2020. TT News Agency/Janerik Henriksson via REUTERS

 

STOCKHOLM — Sweden, which has shunned the strict lockdowns that have choked much of the global economy, emerged from 2020 with a smaller increase in its overall mortality rate than most European countries, an analysis of official data sources showed. Infectious disease experts cautioned that the results could not be interpreted as evidence that lockdowns were unnecessary but acknowledged they may indicate Sweden’s overall stance on fighting the pandemic had merits worth studying. Sweden, meanwhile, has mostly relied on voluntary measures focused on social distancing, good hygiene and targeted rules that have kept schools, restaurants and shops largely open — an approach that has sharply polarised Swedes but spared the economy from much of the hit suffered elsewhere in Europe. Preliminary data from EU statistics agency Eurostat compiled by Reuters showed Sweden had 7.7% more deaths in 2020 than its average for the preceding four years.

Lincoln Isn't Evil. Neither Is the West. Stand Up to the Woke Lies.

Winston Churchill is seen defaced in Parliament Square on June 7, 2020. (Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images).

 

I do not take those things for granted. I know very well that in many other places the answers would be different, and my life wouldn’t be possible at all. America is imperfect. America is fast developing its own informal social credit system, as the writer Rod Dreher has noted, in which people with the wrong politics or online persona are banned from social-media sites and online financial networks.

Sean Speer: The Supreme Court Justice who's not afraid to shake things up

Supreme Court of Canada Justice Russell Brown, seen in a file photo from Oct. 6, 2015, was one of three justices who dissented from the court's decision on March 25, 2021, that the federal government's carbon tax is Constitutional. The court voted 6-3 on the matter. PHOTO BY ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS

 

In so doing, he’s become an intellectual beachhead for a nascent conservative legal movement in the country. Brown, who was appointed to the country’s top court in 2015, came with a sterling record as a legal scholar at the University of Alberta on such topics as commercial law, medical negligence and trusts and estates. But still his appointment generated some controversy among progressive critics because of blogging and other activities that seemed to out him as a «conservative libertarian».

GUNTER: Trudeau's vaccine blunders is why Canada may have a third wave

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. PHOTO BY SEAN KILPATRICK /The Canadian Press

 

Even the EU, whose vaccine rollout has been a mess, is at 15% vaccinated. The Brits will hit 50% this weekend and the Americans are at 40% — four times our rate. And when you look at the all-important double-dosers , the Americans are at 14% to Canada’s tiny 1.6%. The Americans have double-dosed nearly nine times as many people, per capita.

Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon

People of color are disproportionately harmed by climate change, but whites disproportionately fret publicly about it. Credit: Spencer Platt Getty Images

 

Is it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or to get «back to normal?»

The climate movement is ascendant, and it has become common to see climate change as a social justice issue. surveys show that these are the communities most concerned about climate change. One year ago, I published a book called A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety. Since its publication, I have been struck by the fact that those responding to the concept of climate anxiety are overwhelmingly white.