Back from the brink

A sudden outbreak of sanity seems to have taken hold Canada. Firstly the idea of a carbon tax appears to have been killed off for good:

Conservatives kill carbon tax Conservatives have kiboshed a carbon tax, Environment Minister Peter Kent confirmed Thursday. “It’s off the table,” he told reporters Thursday after accepting an award from World Wildlife Fund International on behalf of Parks Canada. “There’s no expectation of cap-and-trade continentally in the near or medium future.”

…and then this:

Government delays pulling plug on old-fashioned light bulbs Tories propose pushing deadline to 2014 over lack of alternatives to incandescents The Conservative government wants to postpone pulling the plug on incandescent light bulbs, saying it needs more time to allow for technological innovations and to deal with concerns about compact fluorescent lamps. Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/decision-canada/Government+delays+pulling+plug+fashioned+light+bulbs/4806638/story.html#ixzz1Mpjo25v6

(H/T to Ross McKitrick, who offers to send a real estate guide, and to Bishop-Hill, where this post was pinched from, but good news needs sharing)