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.
Year: 2001
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.
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Canadians on the Move, to Smaller Communities
The Canadian Dream is increasingly being realized in smaller areas For decades, Canadians moved to the larger cities (census metropolitan areas, or CMAs) with their economic opportunities. The latest estimates indicate that CMAs have 72 per cent of the nation’s...
Leadership Needed in Canadian Healthcare; Apply Within
When the Premiers were first called to a sit-down lunch to talk about healthcare with Prime Minister Trudeau, there was plenty of talk about the potential for systemic change, innovation and accountability. It seemed that Canadians and their leaders were finally on...
The Cause Of Global Warming
A new research paper belies the contention that the world is warming at all, and contradicts the notion that human activity might be responsible for climate change at all.
Our Cities, Canada’s Political Doormat
Why are Canadian cities expected to do so much with so little? Let’s open up both angles, how they do things and the resources available.
The Death Of Poverty
Dramatic human progress in health and living standards has been led by technological advances of modern medicine and vaccines, electricity and the microchip. The prime driver of these advances has been economic freedom which has encouraged, supported, and rewarded innovation.
Creating a New Rural Renaissance
Recent writings about desperation in rural Manitoba made me want to cry or, alternately, ask my neighbours, "Will the last one to leave turn out the lights?" The bleak picture portrayed has some truth but other futures are possible. Here's one. First the bad news. The...
Killing the land with farm subsidies
As spring snow fell outside her office in Saskatoon, Nettie Wiebe, a farmer, professor and long-time political activist, was musing about an agricultural apocalypse.
The Cause of Global Warming – Report
Three of the four methods of measuring global temperature show no signs of global warming. This study suggests that land based temperature measurements are skewed by the “urban heat island” effect.