This is a response to a CBC commentary by the Frontier Centre.
Year: 2000
A Conversation with Johan Hjertqvist
We have redefined what is good healthcare and have been quite successful in some parts of Sweden – cutting waiting lists, speeding up productivity, improving quality, satisfying personnel working in healthcare.
Capital Charge Magic Remedy for Winnipeg’s Downtown
Winnipeg can create strong incentives for its departments to use property assets better by requiring them to pay a capital charge on their market value.
Why America Needs School Vouchers
Much current discussion of educational vouchers takes it for granted that their primary aim is to improve education for low-income students in urban areas.
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Traditional Teaching is not Obsolete
Artificial intelligence has come a long way. Unlike the rudimentary software of the past, modern-day programs such as ChatGPT are truly impressive. Whether you need a 1,000-word essay summarizing the history of Manitoba, a 500-word article extolling the virtues of...
Ottawa’s Policies Defeat Its Critical Minerals Push
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a recent rush visit to the Saskatchewan Research Council’s experimental rare earth refining facility in Saskatoon. He touted his government’s efforts to promote rare earth discovery, development, and extraction, along with the...
A Conversation with David Gratzer
Increasingly people have angst about the system. Eight out of ten Canadians in a recent Angus Reid Poll thought the system was in crisis.
Lack Of Property Rights Part Of Native Poverty Puzzle
It’s time to get serious about bringing native Canadians into the Canadian economic mainstream.
Universal Medical Savings Accounts
A new Medicare model has the potential to retain universality, restore service levels, control costs and introduce transparency and accountability to the system. That model, Universal Medical Savings Accounts (UMSAs), allocates existing public funding directly to individual citizen-consumers of health-care services.
The Search for Aboriginal Property Rights
The objective of this short paper is to make the case for giving natives the normal property rights that all Canadians enjoy.
A Conversation with Tom Flanagan
Dr. Tom Flanagan has been a professor of political science at the University of Calgary since 1968. His research interests include political philosophy, Canadian Politics, and aboriginal rights.
Rent Control Part of Winnipeg’s Poor House Prices
Rent control reduces the value of apartments, increasing property taxes for home owners.
Rent Control In Winnipeg
This short report discusses the damage caused by rent control in Winnipeg and suggests approaches to ease out of them
*Prairie Finance Ministers Dare to Compare Budgets
If you look solely at provincial income taxes, including medicare premiums, Manitoba looks bad. Its taxes are the highest in Canada, followed by Quebec and Saskatchewan. But if you add in the costs of provincial sales and gasoline taxes (lower in Manitoba and Saskatchewan than elsewhere), the picture changes.
The Transformation Of The CNR
One of the Chrétien government’s least talked about successes, the renaissance of the Canadian National Railway offers a unique object lesson in good public policy.