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Wente: The shocking truth about electric cars (1)

Wouldn’t you love to have an electric car? They’re clean, green and righteous. And once we make the switch, we can pull the plug on fossil fuels, air pollution, imported oil and Middle Eastern autocrats, and create millions of green … Continue reading

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Wente: Layton funeral short on pomp, long on populism (2)

They came wearing every shade of orange – orange T-shirts, hats, scarves, even shoes. Some came on bikes. Some brought their kids. They stood or sat in the big square outside Roy Thomson Hall, watching the funeral procession on the … Continue reading

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Wente: Message to McGuinty – Most green-job schemes have been miserable failures

Dalton McGuinty has hit the campaign trail, and he’s paving it green. Earlier this month he announced that Ontario will pump $80-million into building charging stations for electric cars. “They are peppy, they are quiet, and the thing that I … Continue reading

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Wente: It’s all breaking bad for Obama

Barack Obama should try to enjoy his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard for as long as possible. A swaggering governor from Texas (yes, another one) is about to eat his lunch. Until this week, next year’s election was still his to … Continue reading

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Wente: How swiftly fate changes everything

Jack Layton’s grave illness is a devastating reminder of how swiftly fate can change everything. Here’s a man at the peak of his powers who, just a few months ago, achieved an astonishing triumph that took everyone by surprise. He … Continue reading

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Wente: Ship of useful idiots?

I regret to report that this year’s Freedom Flotilla to Gaza is a bust. The hardy band of activists – including a couple of dozen Canadians and the novelist Alice Walker – failed to break Israel’s brutal blockade and deliver … Continue reading

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Wente: You know what scares me? The online mob (2)

When a young man named Nathan Kotylak was caught on cellphone stuffing a gas-soaked rag into the fuel tank of a Vancouver police car last week, I was as outraged as everyone was. What a punk. But now I’m feeling … Continue reading

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Wente: Can environmentalism be saved from itself? (1)

Maybe it was just a bad dream. Just a year ago, 15,000 of the world’s leaders, diplomats, and UN officials were gearing up to descend on Copenhagen to forge a global treaty that would save the planet. The world’s media … Continue reading

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Wente: Angela Merkel says the unsayable

A few years ago, when I visited some of the Turkish neighbourhoods of Berlin, it was obvious that the German experiment with multiculturalism was in trouble. Many of Germany’s four million Turks lived in a parallel society. The kids were … Continue reading

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B.C.’s fishy salmon science

In B.C., there’s something almost sacred about salmon. So when the salmon runs started to dwindle, the blame game began in earnest. The disastrous decline in salmon stocks has been blamed on everything from misguided first nations’ fishing policy to … Continue reading

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Wente: Smash and burn and democracy (6)

My stepmother called from Massachusetts on the weekend. She was under the impression that Toronto was in flames. “Are you all right?” she asked. I assured her we were. The only excitement in our neighbourhood was a peaceful protest by … Continue reading

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