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Corcoran : Labour loses its advantage

The economic slanging match over the closing of a 450-worker Caterpillar plant in London, Ont., follows standard Canadian ideological patters. Mostly, though, it can be reduced to a one-track battle waged by the unionized ideological left against the rest of … Continue reading

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Corcoran: A war on green ‘radicals’ (6)

Through most of 2011, Canadian energy officials in politics and industry watched with bewildered helplessness and some shock as Washington allowed environmentalists to seize control of TransCanada’s $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline issue. They stood by aghast as President Barack Obama, … Continue reading

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Corcoran: The end of bazookanomics is the real trend of 2012

In all the year-end reviews and forecasts, the real trend in world affairs has gone unrecognized. All the predictable suspects made appearances during the annual naval-gazing season, a ritual conducted by media and experts who, this year, each more or … Continue reading

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Corcoran: Court upholds model that works

After more than a decade of trumping up flabby justifications for a national securities regulator, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and a phalanx of legal minds in Ottawa and on Bay Street thought they had landed on a winner: the global … Continue reading

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Corcoran: EU – Continent cut off (17)

To say Prime Minister David Cameron has “isolated” the United Kingdom from its European allies is to forget the old headline joke: “Thick fog in channel, continent cut off.” In the wake of last Friday’s European Union summit, from which … Continue reading

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Corcoran: In the spirit of free trade (1)

In a global economy that today seems to be pulling apart and fractionating back to narrow nation-statism, the Canada/U.S. border plan announced Wednesday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama is a welcome reminder of the way things … Continue reading

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Corcoran: The dark side of green energy

In the annals of Canadian green energy policy, nothing stands out like Ontario’s headlong rush into becoming a world leader in the business. In the belief that politics can defy economics, politicians all over the world are making the big … Continue reading

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Corcoran: Closing the door on Kyoto

On the eve of the Dustbin in Durban, an apt nickname for the doomed UN Framework climate talks that opened Monday in South Africa, it looks like the Kyoto Protocol will not go gently into the night, at least not … Continue reading

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Corcoran: A new Climategate scandal, familiar cast of characters

On the eve of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which opens in Durban, South Africa, on Nov. 28, a second massive collection of embarrassing climate science emails have been dumped on the world via a web server … Continue reading

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