An Open Letter on Gas Taxes to BC – Canadian Taxpayers Federation

Dear Ms Bader, (B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation) I recently read your column titled “Say No to Gas Tax Hike” published by Westcoaster.ca http://www.westcoaster.ca/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=2668 Your views are shared by many, but as with many major societal changes, change comes slowly, and reluctantly. My purpose is not to argue about man-made climate change, scientific …

The Rise of Nuclear Power – Threat, or logical response?

Since it’s birth in the United States and Russia, Nuclear Power generation has been the domain of the developed world only. The “Old Core” powers (US, Russia, France, UK, and others…) had a nearly exclusive grip on the Atom as a source of increasingly clean, abundant, and reliable power. It seems, to me, that the …

Quick Links – Norks, Worms, and Dads turned Commander-in-Chief

(This post created using Google Docs.. cool webapp) Some interesting happenings and events in the past few days. Lets just run through a few: Last Thursday, 4 US F-15s and 2 Canadian CF-18s “intercepted” a Russian “Bear” bomber, as it cruised close to Alaskan airspace. Not a serious or threatening incident, but one that is …