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Two intellectual giants died within hours of each other on January 10. Walter Berns and Harry Jaffa, both students of Leo Strauss, wrote prolifically and influentially over very long careers and on a wide range of subjects. This appreciation of their work focuses on their common, lifelong study of American political thought and constitutionalism. I […]

Clean Energy Canada (CEC) produced a report last week entitled “Tracking the Green Energy Revolution 2014 – Canada.” Though this report isn’t about “green jobs,” one of the comparisons made (and picked up by the media) is that “in 2012 there were 23,700 direct clean-energy sector jobs and 22,340 direct oil sands jobs.” A lot […]

Today City Council begins deliberating what stays and what goes in the combined capital and operating budget: Action Plan 2015-2018. The Action Plan, currently in draft form, provides a road map outlining expenditure and revenue estimates over the multi-year capital plan (2015-2019) and operating budget (2015-2018). The capital plan, at $7.6 billion over five years, […]

In my last blog post on the subject of gasoline vs. hybrid cars, I compared a conventional gasoline powered Honda Accord to the new 2014 plug-in hybrid version and examined the total KM driven (and associated age of the vehicle) before average consumers could expect to save enough on gasoline purchases to be able to […]

Written by: G. Kent Fellows