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Prince Edward Island communities are receiving information about setting up wind turbines to produce electricity for making ice at local skating rinks. The projects were made more viable last month by the introduction of a net-metering program, essentially allowing electricity meters to run backward when the wind turbine is creating more energy than the rink [...]

Political “progressives” may want to re-think their beloved post-modern notion of “human rights”. Several British companies are invoking human rights to claim they were unfairly deprived of profits and competitive advantage. I may have said that the precious quality at the heart of human rights principles is that they apply equally to everyone. But when [...]

Islamist militants are taking control of the Swat Valley, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan. Some 200,000 of the region’s 1.8 million residents have reportedly fled for safety. From an IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: “We see terrible events here every day. The central [...]

Faith Lutheran Church, Kelowna, expelled seven members in September 2007 in a dispute over same-sex blessings and other issues. Four of them went to court alleging that church rules had been broken and that they had been treated unfairly. A BC judge has found in favour of the expelled members and ordered their reinstatement. The [...]

Europhile Conservative MP Ken Clarke was only this month elevated to the Shadow Cabinet, but already a major rift has emerged between him and party leader David Cameron.  Mr Cameron has pledged to introduce pro-marriage tax reforms, but Mr Clarke dismisses that as “social engineering”. “My view of Conservatism is that it’s not for us [...]