The libertarian brotherhood is up in arms over Naomi Kleins treatment of Milton Friedman in The Shock Doctrine, but their attacks are less than convincing.

The United States: one of the most peaceful nations in the world, as the Fraser Institute claims, or one of the least peaceful, according to a recently released global peace study?

A former developer himself, Premier Gordon Campbell holds the purse strings to an Olympic-size sweepstakes payout. The 2010 Olympics were still a gleam in Jack Poole's eye when he addressed a roomful of real-estate developers in the spring of 2002. Vancouver had been shortlisted for the Games, but it would be more than a year until the winning city was chosen.

The PM's career was built on three decades of Fraser Institute hype, and he seems anxious to return the favor.

The evening after the British Columbia government introduced legislation imposing a contract on the province's teachers, Michael Smyth interviewed British Columbia Teachers' Federation president Jinny Sims and Labour Minister Mike de Jong on his CKNW Nightline BC radio show. Smyth was argumentative and surly with Sims. He accused her of not being straight with the public. When he interviewed de Jong, Smyth was respectful and attentive.

On October 21, the Fraser Institute will present a policy briefing on what speaker Tim Ball calls the flawed consensus on global warming. Ball is a retired professor of climatology from the University of Winnipeg now living in Victoria. As a global-warming skeptic, he is in high demand by the front groups sponsored by the fossil-fuel industry.