An enormous volume of self-renewing fresh water flows through Manitoba each year. The system of rivers that drain into Hudson’s Bay have played an important economic role for centuries.
Year: 2001
Getting People to Live Downtown
The key to a vibrant downtown is a growing permanent residential population.
Rebranding with Pooh
Exaggerated national reporting of Winnipeg’s many policy problems has damaged its “brand” in Canada. It’s time to play to our strengths.
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.
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The Man who Saved the Plains Indians
At the time of Confederation, Canada’s Plains Indians were in a desperate situation. The same European-introduced guns and horses that resulted in a briefly glorious golden age for them had also resulted in constant inter-tribal warfare and the rapid disappearance of...
Renewed Talk of Abolishing the Indian Act
Political attacks on the Indian Act are back in the news, and that is a good thing. However, Canadian politicians, including First Nation politicians, need a credible plan about what to do before we pull out the champagne. Attacking the Indian Act is not a big deal...
Efficient Mosquitoes
Winnipeg is moving towards a single parking authority to eliminate overlaps and create efficiencies in parking management.
UN doomsday scenario unfounded, report’s lead author asserts
Chances are you’ve never heard of John Christy. That’s somewhat amazing, because Christy, a director of the Earth System Science Centre at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, is one of the world’s most respected climatology experts.
Is Profit A Poison Pill For Healthcare?
Medicare is failing because it’s based on an archaic, unsuccessful policy model. The system needs more profit, not less, because it stimulates superior medical performance. Other countries are opening up their monopolies to competition with private operators.
*Alberta Streaks Ahead
Alberta has been lowering taxes since 1997 and on Jan. 1 it became the first province to switch to a single-rate income tax system, dropping the levy to 10% from an originally planned 10.5%.
Effective policing in Winnipeg?
Winnipeg’s police force performs the single most important function of government, ensuring public safety.
Swedish Healthcare in Transition
The day in October when I returned to Sweden, the Social Democrat government, with Green Party support, finally presented a bill intended to forbid the selling of emergency hospitals to profit-making companies.
Moving Beyond the Medicare Orthodoxy
Why is it that Canada’s two main political parties have virtually identical positions on medicare, while the public is now looking for new options?
High Police Resourcing Relative to Crime Clearance Rate in Winnipeg (FC003B)
In 1999, Winnipeg had the second highest level of police strength of Canadian cities, at 182 officers per 100,000 population. Only Thunder Bay had more police, 187 per 100,000 population.
One-Officer Versus Two-Officer Police Cars in Winnipeg
Statistics on the use of police resources show that the City of Winnipeg has a larger police presence than other parts of Canada, even though crime rates here are not proportionately higher.