Nestibo Agra’s sunflower business is a great example of value added agricultural processing in a rural area.
Year: 2002
Competition and the Calgary School Board
Calgary public school board beset by competition; when parents have choices..
Romanow’s failure?
Romanow’s report is a $15-million failure.
Straight out of Central Planning
Romanow offers more central planning. Problem, it does not work.
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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...
Winnipeg Property Tax Burden Lighter, But Comparatively Heavy
[WINNIPEG] Despite a decided trend towards reductions, Winnipeg’s property taxes are still higher than most other Canadian cities, according to a new comparison released today by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. “Between 2000 and 2001, the city did an impressive...
Grain Classification Roadblocks
Grain classification system becomes an issue
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
Why high property taxes reduce property values
The tax capitalization effect
Power to the people
Lawrence Solomon National Post September 18, 2002 Rooftop power plants are sprouting in California, a state that has suffered from volatile power costs and electricity shortages, and before the end of the year, they'll be sprouting in New York and New Jersey. By the...
Nav Canada’s Striking Success
The astounding transformation of Canada’s air traffic control system.
Should Manitoba Expand Ethanol Subsidies?
Rural Renaissance Notes commentary – ethanol subsidies will harm the livestock industry