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Goldstein: Al Gore, carbon hypocrite

Since Al Gore has been trashing Canada, again, while on his latest book tour, today I will trash Al Gore. Let’s begin: 1. While preaching energy austerity for everyone else in order, he claims, to save the planet from man-made … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Fighting the Canada-bashers

Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver comes in for a lot of unjustified criticism for doing his job. His job is to stand up for Canadian resource development in the face of absurd and politically-motivated attacks from all the usual … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Global-warm mongers

Saturday night, in case you missed it, was Earth Hour. That’s the World Wildlife Fund’s annual global event urging everyone to turn off their lights between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., to protest man-made global warming. This is the public … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Mandatory three-year minimum sentence sounds worse than it is

TORONTO – It’s like something out of Alice in Wonderland. While three boys, aged 15, 15 and nine have been shot to death in the GTA in recent weeks, the big court battle looming in Ontario is over whether Ottawa’s … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Kyoto good as dead…and Harper was right to kill it (2)

As of today, the Kyoto protocol is a zombie treaty. It’s a corpse that keeps moving, but it’s dead. Kyoto died Monday at midnight when the greenhouse gas cuts it set for 37 industrialized nations between 2008 and 2012 expired. … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Veiled in confusion – Politically correct Supreme Court waffles on niqab

Does anyone seriously believe that when we developed our system of open courts, it was to discriminate against veiled Muslim women? Or that our legal principle that a defendant is entitled to a fair trial, including the right to face … Continue reading

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Goldstein: WTF is a fiscal cliff?

Since we’re going to be hearing a lot about the so-called “fiscal cliff” and raising the debt ceiling of the United States over the next few months, here’s a primer on what’s going on. The “fiscal cliff” refers to $560 … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Sandy as climate porn

Climate alarmists are great at linking single weather events like Hurricane Sandy to man-made climate change, a propaganda tactic otherwise known as climate porn. But they’re dismal at coming up with realistic solutions on what we should do about it. … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Book-burning pastor no freedom fighter

Those trying to portray Florida Pastor Terry Jones as a poster boy for free speech now that he has been barred from Canada, avoid discussing the most relevant point about him. That is, he’s a book burner. Jones comes from … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Nobody wants Khadr

An Abacus Data/Sun News Network poll showing Canadians overwhelmingly oppose repatriating Omar Khadr from the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba raises an obvious question. What happened to U.S. President Barack Obama’s election promise of four years ago … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Court backs Harper on Kyoto

To no one’s surprise who has been following the matter, the Federal Court of Canada Tuesday upheld the right of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government to withdraw from the Kyoto accord. That had been challenged by former Bloc MP Daniel Turp, … Continue reading

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