Month: March 2021

Carbon Tax Hike Shows High Cost of Federal Scheme vs Quebec’s

News Analysis The April 1 increase in the federal carbon tax to $40 per tonne highlights the high cost of the federal pricing scheme compared with the cost to Quebecers under their provincial cap-and-trade policy, whose current carbon price is roughly half that amount. Trevor Tombe, an economics professor at the University of Calgary, said…


Carbon Tax Hike Highlights High Cost of Federal vs Quebec Pricing Schemes

News Analysis The April 1 increase in the federal carbon tax to $40 per tonne highlights the high cost of the federal pricing scheme compared with the cost to Quebecers under their provincial cap-and-trade policy, whose current carbon price is roughly half that amount. Trevor Tombe, an economics professor at the University of Calgary, said…


Opposition Shuts WE Hearing as Liberals Again Refuse to Let Staffer Testify

OTTAWA—Opposition members shut down a parliamentary committee hearing Wednesday after the Liberal government once again refused to let a political aide appear to answer questions about the now-dead deal with WE Charity. Members of the House of Commons’ ethics committee had asked Amitpal Singh, a senior adviser to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, to testify after…


Iowa Democrat Drops Election Challenge Over House Race, Giving GOP Another 2020 Victory

Iowa Democrat Rita Hart has dropped her election challenge to Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’s 2020 victory in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Hart on March 31 withdrew her challenge to her state-certified, six-vote loss with the House Administration Committee. A number of Democratic lawmakers in recent days said House leaders shouldn’t attempt to overturn the election results. “After many…


Democrat Drops Election Challenge Over Iowa House Race, Giving Republicans Another 2020 Victory

Democrat Rita Hart dropped her election challenge over the Iowa House district that was contested by only six votes, giving Republicans and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) a final win. Hart on Wednesday announced she is withdrawing her challenge with the House Administration Committee over her loss in Iowa’s Second Congressional District. A number of Democratic…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (March 31)

President Joe Biden unveils his $2 trillion infrastructure plan. NTD has the details on what’s in it and how he proposes to pay for it. German carmaker shocks the world by changing its name. Stock prices shot up, but was it only a joke? Are children’s apps on the Google Play Store collecting your child’s…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (Mar. 31)

President Biden unveils his $2 trillion infrastructure plan Wednesday, we have details on what’s in it and how he proposes to pay for it. German carmaker shocks the world by changing its name. Stock prices shot up, but was it only a joke? Are children’s apps on the Google Play Store collecting your kid’s personal…


Rep. Cuellar: Border Patrol ‘Overwhelmed’ by Large Numbers of Illegal Immigrants

Border Patrol agents are struggling to deal with the surge in illegal immigrants crossing into the United States from Mexico, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) told The Epoch Times on Wednesday. “Border Patrol has just been overwhelmed. All our good intentions are being overwhelmed by the pure numbers of people coming in,” said the congressman, whose…


Firefighters Battle Blaze at Laguna Hills House Where Suspect Was Barricaded

LAGUNA HILLS—Orange County firefighters were battling a blaze at a house in Laguna Hills amid a barricade situation March 31. Deputies were called at 10:30 a.m. to 27716 Greenfield Drive for a dispute among neighbors, said Jaimee Blashaw of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. It was not immediately clear when the fire broke out, but…


Grassroots Rebellion Grows with New Calls to Ban Critical Race Theory from Military, Public Schools

Kevin O’Leary said he was “devastated” when he learned his former football coach, David Flynn, had been fired after questioning a seventh-grade history curriculum that labeled white people and America as inherently racist. “Everyone loves coach, he gets kids to play football,” O’Leary told a local television news reporter in January. “Coach Flynn is an…