Now the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) want our kids to stop drinking milk. Presumably, we are cruelly exploiting dairy cows who deserve a life of frolicking in meadows.
Year: 2001
*Privatizing Hospitals Around the Globe
As governments struggle with rising health care costs, public-private partnerships in constructing and managing public hospitals can provide innovative ways to control costs and improve service.
Let Them Drink Soda Pop
Canadians have fought a spirited campaign against poverty, but we’ve failed to brandish one obvious weapon: shedding a marketing board system that raises the price of food and makes basic nutrition more expensive for the poor.
The Great Canadian Bribe
Economists are a blunt-spoken lot, in their own jargon-ridden way.
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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...
Farm Chemicals can Benefit our Environment
This means that our soil resources will be tightly tied to the earth and our lands protected from spring floods and winds. In addition, the wholesale adoption of winter wheat may reduce flooding overall as the spring runoff is captured very early in spring by crops that have spent the winter under the snow. Throw in newer, better, and less toxic herbicides and the future looks bright.
The Swedish nurse
With nurses’ unions squaring off against their government employers across the country, it might be worthwhile to consider how Sweden’s nurses’ union benefited from an injection of competitive choices into its publicly funded health care model.
Bottom Up Public Policy Works Better
The federal NDP is engaged in serious soul searching, with only 9% of Canadians supporting the party in a recent opinion poll. Against this bleak backdrop, a group of party activists has been working on the “New Politics Initiative”, an attempt to redefine where the party is going and what it stands for.
Pay Farmers To Stop Farming
Times are tough on the land. Desperate farmers rallying on the steps of legislatures or driving combines they can't pay for in protest motorcades have become an occasional, depressing staple of the nightly news. But our governments are beginning to understand that...
Archaic Indian Act is behind native poverty
In yesterday’s National Post, Matthew Coon Come, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, suggested Ottawa is orchestrating a conspiracy to trap native people in poverty in order to assimilate them. While Mr. Coon Come is right about the existence of a poverty trap, it is the legal structure of the Indian Act itself, not a desire to assimilate native Indians, that is to blame.
Is Hydro’s Debt Set To Explode?
Manitoba Hydro’s plans to invest billions in more dams are compromised by its status as a Crown corporation.
Don’t Throw out Biotech Baby with Environmental Bathwater
We’ve been hearing a lot of guff about “Franken-foods”, the anti-science crowd’s moniker for Genetically Modified Organisms. They claim that foodstuffs improved in the laboratory will turn us all into creatures from the Black Lagoon.
Rural Areas can Grow Strong on the Information Highway
Boy, the world has changed for those of us who live in the woods. We still have clean air, open spaces, decent roads, a low crime rate, better primary health care than city folk and better schools.
Winnipeg’s Property Taxes
Is Winnipeg on a roll? A spate of “good news” stories has led some to that conclusion, and let’s hope they’re right. But new research data on the City’s high property taxes tell a cautionary tale, that the fundamentals necessary to a sustained boom may not be in place.