Terrorist attacks in New York will accelerate the move of urban professionals to the countryside.
Year: 2001
Water, Water Everywhere But Canada Won’t Sell It
With an average annual rainfall of 33 feet, Link Lake in British Columbia sends enough water into the Pacific Ocean to meet all of California’s water needs for the next 20 years, according to widely published estimates in the Canadian press.
Manitoba Beef Sector Sizzles
Amid all of the bad news in the grain industry and the conflicts over expansion in the hog industry, one segment of farming, the beef business, is doing quite nicely, thank you very much.
The Velvet Glove Of Welfare Reform
Largely unheralded, a notable anniversary slipped quietly by in the third week of August. Five years have passed since Democratic U.S. President Bill Clinton signed his country’s massive welfare reform package into law. How has it worked out?
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Our Health Ministers Need to Take a Lesson from Hockey Coaches
Those of you who are tired of my rants about the demise of our once great health system will be pleased to know that this is my last editorial. I am retiring from the BCMJ Editorial Board; currently, I am the longest-serving member (more than 20 years). I have been a...
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
Powell Equipment
A discussion of the digital economy’s impacts on the Manitoba economy.
Urban Transport and the Purchaser/Provider Split
Over the past two decades, various countries have established policies to shift the production of transit services into a competitive environment.
The Internet Empowers Swedish Healthcare Consumers
In Stockholm healthcare consumers can go online to compare waiting lists and choose between private and public providers.
Merit Pay For Teachers
Teachers have immunized themselves from traditional incentives for rewarding professionalism and excellence.
E-Government Dawns in the 21st Century Government
Government on-line is a futuristic concept that can increase choice and lower costs.
*How we can beat the U.S.
In a roundtable discussion with Financial Post Editor-in-Chief Terence Corcoran, four leading economic thinkers take up Charles Baillie’s challenge. All agree it is possible to overtake the United States in growth and standard of living. These are edited excerpts of their comments and ideas.
A Conversation with Stephen Goldsmith
Privatization assumes that the private sector is inherently more effective and we determined that public value comes from competition and that private monopolies are not better than public monopolies. The competitive aspect drives value to the citizens.
Electricity Deregulation Opportunities
Despite the horror stories from Alberta and California, the arguments for privatizing and deregulating Manitoba Hydro are sound.
Westward Ho, The Tax Base (FC004)
The 2001 Prairie Tax Load Index is the summation of a province’s key tax rates – the top marginal rates on personal and corporate income, payroll and capital, as well as sales taxes.