Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Dr. Tim Ball With Ottawa Citizen Editorial Board

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Episode Length: 58 min

Retired climatology professor Tim Ball is fighting a difficult battle against the broadly accepted idea that human industry and conveniences are changing Earth's climate, and not for the better.

Earth is warming up, Ball says, but it's not humans who are doing it. Human-produced carbon-dioxide is but a tiny fraction of the atmosphere's greenhouse gases, so ripping up the Canadian economy to reduce our emissions is folly, he says.

In Ottawa for a speaking engagement, Mr. Ball stopped at the Citizen to speak to the editorial board about his theories of climate change (including why a warmer planet might not be bad for Canada) and the effects of consensus thinking among policymakers and the scientists they fund - and to answer questions about who pays for him to share his thinking with the world.

Originally aired May 17th, 2006.

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Sara Landriault Discusses Tax Fairness For Stay At Home Parents On CFRA

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Episode Length: 41 min

CFRA's Nick Vandergragt is joined by Sara Landriault, unpaid advocate for tax fairness for families with stay at home parents. Sara discusses the benefits of tax fairness systems such as income splitting and flat tax, and details her battles against the generously paid advocates for complete state-run subsidized daycare. Originally aired 10AM May 27 2007.


WARNING: This show is not for the faint of heart.


VISIT:
Sara's blog - http://choiceforchildcare.blogspot.com/
National Family Childcare Association - http://www.careofthechild.com/
Fund The child - http://fundthechild.tripod.com/

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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Dr. Tim Ball: Why There’s Nothing New About Climate Change

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Episode Length: 75 min

"Why There’s Nothing New About Climate Change" is a speech delivered by Historical Climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball at Lunch On The Frontier.

Originally aired January 26th, 2007

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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Dr. Tim Ball Responds To Suzuki Temper Tantrum

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Episode Length: 17 min

If you listened to the last episode, you would have heard a rather interesting outburst from David Suzuki when challenged with an opposing argument. This is Dr. Ball's response to that interview, in which he also challenges many theories put forth in An Inconvenient Truth. Unlike Suzuki who stormed off afterwards, takes questions from listeners calling in.

Originally aired February 21st, 2007

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Saturday, May 26, 2007

David Suzuki Throws Hissy Fit When Challenged On Global Warming

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Episode Length: 8 min

In an interview with AM640's John Oakley, David Suzuki nearly self combusts in his hypocrisy and storms out of the room at the end of the interview. Do temper tantrums contribute to global warming?

After Suzuki insinuates that scientists who disagree with him are "shilling" for big corporations, Oakley asks him where he gets his funding. Suzuki replies that his foundation takes no money from governments and complains that "corporations have not been interested in funding us."

In fact, his own 05/06 Annual Report shows funding from ATCO Gas, IBM Canada, Bell Canada, Jackson Power & Electric Ltd., Warner Bros. Entertainment Canada Inc. and at least 52 other corporations!

Later on, having demonstrated how little he knows about the workings of international treaties, Suzuki dismisses questions about the scientific integrity of Kyoto, characterizing Oakley's observation that "a lot of scientists feel they're intimidated from speaking out..." as nothing more than "a lot of baloney."

"2,500 scientists signed the IPCC (Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change) Report on February 2!" Suzuki exclaims.

I decided to check this out for myself - and discovered that, in fact, only 51 individuals signed the IPCC Report released on February 2. (Click here to download a copy of this report.)

Originally Aired February 15th, 2007

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Friday, May 25, 2007

Dr. Tim Ball Discussing Global Warming

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Episode Length: 14 min

CFRA's Daniel Prousallidis is joined by Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, to discuss global warming and some of the myths surrounding the controversial subject.

Originally Aired May 20th, 2007

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Adler Discusses Polling on Afghanistan Mission with Strategic Counsel's Tim Woolstencroft

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Episode Length: 9 min

Charles Adler discusses recent Canadian opinion polling on the Afghanistan mission. He asks questions of Woolstencroft (Strategic Counsel) about how the poll was conducted. Adler discovers that what polling firms refer to as 'balanced questions' are usually aimed at uninformed voters, and suggests if the public were better informed polling results would be drastically different. Case in point, Adler says if Canadians knew more about the Taliban, they would overwhelmingly refuse to support negotiations with the Taliban.

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Monday, May 21, 2007

This Week In Politics, Episode 6

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Episode Length: 21 min

Another solo mission this week. These are the topics I discuss:


* Jamie Carrol's remarks flaring Liberal Party infighting,
* Justin Trudeau considers departing form capitalism,
* 2nd Environment Canada leak,
* Race Card being one of Dalton's election strategies,
* Dalton's $1 million of flights from Toronto, Niagara, and Hamilton

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Monday, May 14, 2007

This Week In Politics, Episode 5

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Episode Length: 51 min

Again, some subtle changes to the flow this week. Jordan Alcock joins me again after a week off and we dissect a fairly active week in politics.

I kept my commentary to only a few issues this show, deciding instead to focus on a few key items. Lately we've been hearing charges that racism played a roll in the Air India disaster and the political handling of the aftermath. I argue against this notion as put forward by former socialists Ujjal Dosanjh and Bob Rae. I also tackle the sacred cow of multiculturalism in discussing the fading detainee controversy.

In discussion, Jordan and I dissect the repercussions in Ottawa that Gilles Duceppe's departure and reversal will have. We also scold some Tory ministers for conveniently hiding some travel expenses and have a look at the proposed changes to the makeup of the Commons. After tossing around ideas about the proposed new makeup of the Commons, we talk about Dalton McGuinty's slush fund scandal some more.

Please check out the latest episode and let us know what you think. The show is available on iTunes for your convenience.

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Sunday, May 06, 2007

This Week In Politics - May 6 2007

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Episode Length: 11 min

The show is getting more and more popular with each passing week. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to listen so far, and if you haven't yet, I encourage you to check it out. This week is a shortened episode as there is no panel, but that will return again for the next show.

Topics this week include:

* Randy hillier wins PC nod
* Liberal ministers aide receives grant for his group.
* Canada declares Iraq invasion legal
* Age of consent
* Judicial appointments linked to political donations: study
* Duceppe said ready to flee Ottawa
* New detainee agreement
* Tories to close Elections Act loophole
* Fixed election dates

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