Grain classification system becomes an issue
Year: 2002
Ethanol: The Promise And The Peril
Policy Notes – On balance, ethanol subsidies will harm the Manitoba economy
MSAs: Rise of a Zombie
Put yourself in the shoes of Raisa Deber, a professor of health policy at University of Toronto and one of the medical establishment’s leading strategists and defenders of medicare as we know it.
Floodway: Part of War on Mosquitoes?
Drain the swamps into expanded floodway to combat mosquitoes
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Why University?
In this essay, I explain that young people should come to university to be educated, and not to become credentialed; the public should support universities because universities educate young people, not because they produce credentialled workers. Why should a...
A Lamentable Tale of Two Colonies
During the whole of recorded history, the empire has been the most constant and common form of political organization. A basic, self-evident feature of all empire-building has been the successful occupation of the lands of the local, Indigenous inhabitants by outside...
A Conversation with Patrick Moore
In the mid-1980s I became convinced that aquaculture offered some solutions to the depletion of world fish stocks. I tried to convince my Greenpeace colleagues to support sustainable aquaculture as a positive policy.
A Conversation with Paul Martin
Frontier interviews Canada’s finance minister Paul Martin.
Immigration – Manitoba’s Lifeline?
Carved out of the wilderness by people seeking a better life, Manitoba now faces a hidden crisis.
Immigration – Manitoba’s Lifeline? – Report
The most valuable resource in any community is its people. Over the last quarter century, Manitoba has generously supplied this resource to other provinces, with most of those years showing a net out migration, often of the youngest and brightest.
Lifelong Learning Requires Policy Reforms
Despite widespread agreement of the critical importance of “lifelong learning”, the vested interests of Canada’s higher education system are determinedly resisting reforms that would make this goal achievable
God is not a Fish Inspector
Manitoba writer W.D. Valgardson wrote a book of short stories about his family, Lake Winnipeg commercial fishermen. It recounts in poignant detail the village life of bygone days.