B.C.’s forest fires are the result of misguided forest management practices.
Year: 2003
Canada Polishes Financial Picture
Canada’s debt-GDP has continued to fall faster than that of most other G7 countries.
This Time It Really Is a New Economy
We’re still in the middle of the transition from a world of persistent inflation to one of persistent deflation. The transformation will affect how we look at the world, what public policies we argue about, the innovations we marvel at, and the quality of everyday life.
A Silver Lining for Canada
American softwood lumber tariffs are causing economic damage, but in the long run they may strengthen Canada’s forest industry.
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Let’s Celebrate Reaching Global Population of Eight Billion
Recently, the United Nations estimated that the population of Planet Earth had reached eight billion souls. Despite the chatter of the highly subsidized climate doomster complex this is quite an achievement - it certainly indicates that the carrying capacity of our...
China’s “Truckers’ Convoy”
Anti-lockdown protests are now taking place across China - the Chinese equivalent of our Truckers’ Convoy. The protests are a reaction to the brutal policies that literally lock people in their apartments, when even one infection is detected. As in Canada, when...
U.S. Anger Clouds Rural Economy
Canada’s clumsy positioning on the Iraq conflict will cost the rural economy on several pressing trade fronts
Dairy Farmer Appeals Dairy Quota Squeeze Play
In Ontario, farmers pay $27,000 to the Dairy Farmers for a licence to milk one cow. Those who can’t afford to pay are fighting back.
Clean Blue Water
Globally, the poorest countries face the worst environmental problems. They are poor because they lack the political, economic and cultural institutions necessary for economic growth.
Drowning in a sea of structural funds?
“It’s when you hear people seriously suggesting that Portugal should fiddle its official statistics, so that we are still rated poor enough to qualify for European subsidies, that you wonder if this has gone too far” – The Economist looks at the debilitating effects of regional aid… obvious parallels in Canada…
It’s Time to Close the Indian Reservations
The chief problem for Indians on reservations isn’t that land was stolen from their ancestors a few generations ago, but that the federal government owns or controls most of the land they live on now, say critics.
Martin divestment a dangerous precedent
Requiring individuals to divest business assets will cause business people and entrepreneurs to shun Canadian politics.
Government job creation a $1 trillion waste
Failed efforts to develop Atlantic Canada’s economy provides key lessons for Canada and for Saskatchewan.
Let’s Dance the Dutch Minuet on Schools
The Dutch schooling model works well and would solve some long festering issues in Manitoba education.
Third Way can’t survive Tony Blair
Tony Blair’s politics shows how skewed Canadian politics have become