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MACDONALD: Irony Alert – The Homeless Made People Homeless

November 19, 2025 Steve MacDonald

If I’ve said it once, the saying goes, Democrats break things, then create more government to “fix” them, and they keep doing it if you let them, but nothing gets fixed. In fact, it all gets worse. Sometimes these broken things collide, breaking more things, which is an exponential win for progressive policy. Take the … Read more

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MacDonald: Reader Rant – WTF is Up With Canada?

August 7, 2025 Steve MacDonald

For successive years, the Great White North has, with regularity, cast vast clouds of woodsmoke across the northeastern United States. I’ve lived in New England for 35 years, and in the northeast my entire life. We never had this. It is new, as in recent, and it reeks, smokes, and stinks of incompetence. Forest fires … Read more

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What’s Causing This Brutal Heat Wave?

July 19, 2024 John Klar

Scathing summer heat has fueled incendiary headlines attributing record-breaking temperatures around the world to climate change. The presumption that individual weather events such as hurricanes, storms, or wildfires can be traced to greenhouse gas emissions displays the shoddy ideological fearmongering employed by climate alarmists in lieu of credible scientific fact. Noticeably omitted from assumptions that … Read more

Canadian Who Blamed Wildfires on the Government Pleads Guilty to 14 Counts of Arson

January 24, 2024 Steve MacDonald

As if the climate cult needed fuel for its wildfire narrative, Quebec lit up like a Christmas tree in June Last year. We showed satellite images of multiple fires starting almost simultaneously under a clear sky (so not lightning strikes). Not lighting. Not Climate change. Brian Paré.

Global Warming Leads to Lowest Wildfire Burn Acerage This Century … or Something

November 26, 2023November 25, 2023 Steve MacDonald

I’m back with more high-quality left-wing narratives debunking news from the global warming desk. Dateline: Wildfires. If you recall, in the spring of 2023, it seemed like wildfires would be the story of the year, as if that’s not true every year.

They Are Not “Wildfires” (in Canada) If Eco-Terrorists Set Them

June 8, 2023June 8, 2023 Steve MacDonald

As Americans deal with air quality issues from Canadian forest fires, the US media blames big oil and modernity’s sins. The actual cause is a bit less complex. Canadian authorities say arsonists deliberately started these fires.

Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (WRBA) is Erasing History

March 20, 2021 Steve MacDonald

One of the inconvenient truths about the climate debate is advocates’ need to manipulate data. They’ve been doing it for decades. Picking starting points that show favorable rises in data. Ignoring anything that contradicts the current dogma. And Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (WRBA) is erasing inconvenient history.

Fire forest fire original Photo by Benjamin Lizardo on Unsplash

World Wildlife Federation Paid $70,000 to Activists who Set Fire to Amazon Forest

September 29, 2021November 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Remember those Amazon Forest Fires that dominated the news until Hurricane Dorian broke the second seal of the apocalypse? It turns out that “man” was responsible for at least a few of those fires after all. Well, the four men who set the fire.