Transgenic crops confer overwhelming environmental benefits on modern agriculture.
Year: 2003
Canada’s New Spirit
The Economist’s cover story on Canada’s new spirit from September 2003
Why Doha Must Succeed
One day the majority of people in these countries will wake up and understand how much better off they would be if they did away with farm subsidies and protection. Governments would save themselves billions of dollars. Consumers and taxpayers would get a much better deal and farmers would enjoy freedom and opportunities they do not have now.
Atlantic Task Force Says No to Public Insurance
A report commissioned by the Atlantic premiers has dismissed the idea of a public auto insurance system for the region.
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Canada in 2073—Will There Be One?
“Ahead, Thar Be Dragons.” The world of 2023 is a scary place. One major war is raging, with others probably on the way. The Pax Americana that has given us freedom of the seas and allowed global trade to flourish might be breaking down. International piracy,...
World Cries out for Canadian LNG, “No Business Case” Feds have Totally Failed Us
Today, Canada’s natural gas sector is seeing its decade of darkness due to federal policy. And it’s not because the opportunity wasn’t there. It was because our government allowed its ideology, and that of its anti-oil and gas friends (also known as protestors) to...
New York’s Self-Destruction: Rent Control
Rent control helps destroy New York, harming the poor and subsidizing the middle class..
Solving the Stagnation Puzzle
One of the world’s leading economists discusses policy issues that lie at the root of Manitoba’s relative economic stagnation.
On the Election Trail
Political parties in Manitoba’s 2003 election are offering Manitobans some clear policy alternatives.
Gordon Tullock, Co-Founder, School of Public Choice Economics
Frontier interviews Professor Gordon Tullock, one of the world’s greatest living economists
Consuming Passions
Should labour treat citizens as a consumer, the big debate in Britain’s Labour Party.
Barren cities an ominous warning for EU
Bleak scenario plays out in Germany as city population shrinks..
Political Prestige or Consumer Focus?
International ranking agencies today seriously challenge the official view of the Canadian healthcare system as a rare jewel. Rare perhaps, but with a fading lustre.
Janice MacKinnon, Romanow’s Finance Minister
Frontier interviews Janice MacKinnon, Saskatchewan’s finance minister during 1993-97 who presided over one of the steepest reductions in size of government in Canadian history.
Smarter Policy = Growth
Manitoba’s 2003 budget continues the low growth policy model