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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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Corcoran: Cooler science (3)

Only a week to go before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) begins in Durban, South Africa, where world governments will again attempt to draft a global plan to control carbon emissions so as to stave off … Continue reading

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Corcoran: From Keynes to euroflation (4)

Would be wrong to use inflation to bail out Europe’s fiscal basket cases As Italy’s fiscal crisis deepens, the image abroad is that of a country liberated from the oily hands of a wildly erratic, sex-crazy politician. Silvio Berlusconi is … Continue reading

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Corcoran: The real Keystone issue – Property rights

The power to expropriate property to make way for pipelines is weakening There are a lot of donkeys on whom to pin the blame for the U.S. State Department’s decision to kick TransCanada’s $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline into another political … Continue reading

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Corcoran: The energy superpower that isn’t (1)

Canada hardly rates a mention in Daniel Yergin’s new book When a “global energy superpower” starts delivering tough talk to its potential customers, that superpower had better be sure that people will listen. It has also better be sure it … Continue reading

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Corcoran: Climate issue off the agenda (2)

On eve of UN meeting, reports reveal an overwhelming urge to do nothing It’s been 23 years since I first wrote about the greenhouse effect and climate change for theFinancial Post, on June 29, 1988. The column began: Stop the presses! Hold … Continue reading

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Corcoran: March of the global anarcho-crazies (10)

Comparing Wall Street and Tahrir Square is a grotesque absurdity Canada’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Thursday the Occupy Wall Street movement “has a point.” Then Mr. Flaherty jumped on a jet to Europe for a meeting of the G20 … Continue reading

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Corcoran: The ‘ethical oil’ road to global trade war

It’s not often that a journalist gets to see his view of the world turned into national policy. That makes Sun TV host Ezra Levant, the author of Ethical Oil, a rare media bird. Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Environment … Continue reading

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