Don’t worry about local phone rates. If we continue to deregulate, they will continue to fall.
Year: 1998
Rethinking the Police
We can never downplay the value of our police. They are “the thin blue line” who perform a critical community function that occasionally has lethal consequences for them. But there is plenty of room for rethinking the structure of Winnipeg’s police services.
The Wealth Of Time
January Michael Cox and Richard Alm calculate how much of the average worker’s productive day must be set aside to make a particular purchase, and then they compare the results with the hours past generations had to put in.
To Sell Or Not To Sell Winnipeg Hydro
Winnipeg’s civic election warmed up last week when mayoral candidates Glen Murray and Peter Kaufmann duked it out over Winnipeg Hydro. Kaufmann would sell it to Manitoba Hydro while Murray would keep the utility, invest $235 million in it, and use the profits to help cut property taxes.
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
Speeding Up The Rails
The railroads’ poor performance in transporting Prairie farmers’ grain to ocean terminals is chronic and well documented. Private ownership, as demonstrated in Britain, offers a light at the end of this tunnel.
Enlightened Unionism – Competitive Model
Two years ago at a conference on local government reform, I met Stephan Fantauzzo, a union leader who represents municipal workers in the City of Indianapolis. Fantauzzo provided a union perspective on the wave of reform now underway in local government. It was a...
Creating Wealth Through Property Tax Cuts
When Michigan ended school property tax, house prices shot up.
Welfare Reform Works In Wisconsin
In Wisconsin, attaching the handouts to a work requirement has benefitted everyone.
Lessons From The Dismal Science
The world recently lost two great minds in the field: Julian Simon and Mancur Olson. These two men had profound knowledge of the field of economics.
Why Charter Schools Are Coming
A bright man with a vibrant message bounced through Winnipeg last week, and moved our community a few steps closer to breaking out of our public school malaise.
No Free Lunches
A famous economist once said: “There is no such thing as a free lunch”. He was right. So beware of elected officials who skirt the sad results of excessive property taxation by offering high profile “freebies”. It’s another reason your house in Winnipeg suffers from the lowest property values in Canada.
Fixing Winnipeg’s Urban Sprawl
People can escape paying their share by moving to lower-tax communities just outside the perimeter: they simply work and consume services in Winnipeg without paying for them. As the city’s population falls, capital and operating costs are spread over fewer people. Taxes must then go up, but this stimulates even more flight to the exurbs. And so on.
Trash In, Trash Out – Saskatchewan Shows Better Way On Recycling
The environmental movement scores its biggest coups when it takes positions based on common sense.