Tradable Electricity Permits (TEP) would grant individual Manitobans rights to a predetermined quantity of power, with the cost of a permit determined by existing rate structures.
Year: 2003
Farm Organizations Need to Rethink their Roles
Rural interests need to coalesce around a set of common objectives to promote the rural economy
Canada’s Electricity Efficiency vs. the OECD (FC013)
Manitobans consume almost 9 times as much electricity compared to the global average per capita or 2.6 times the OECD average.
Cheap pills today or new pills tomorrow?
Drug prices have been lowered for medical marvels already discovered, but at the cost of needlessly prolonging the suffering caused by diseases that we have not yet conquered.
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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...
Sam Olivito, California Contract Cities Association
An interview with Sam Olivito, Executive Director of the California Contract Cities Association, which represent 57 “contract” cities
Creating Self-Government That Works
A major U.S. study concludes the most successful native reserves have effective sovereignty over their own affairs.
Harvard Project Lessons on Self-Government
Major U.S. study shows that reserve communities that have higher levels of economic health tend to be those that have higher degrees of effective sovereignty.
Auto Competitive Transit Service?
People will not ride transit unless it is competitive with the automobile. It is as simple as that.
MEDIA RELEASE- Pay Teachers for Results, Not Credentials, Says New Report
Merit pay study released; proposes new system for paying Manitoba teachers
A Merit Pay Plan for Manitoba Teachers
This paper proposes a merit pay plan for Manitoba teachers based on models that have been successfully implemented in the United States. It creates a new salary grid which replaces increments based on experience and the teacher’s years of university education. A teacher’s merit level placement would depend partially on in-school evaluations and student performance on standards exams. Principals will also have six possible merit levels, determined entirely by student performance
The Perils of Subsidization
South Dakota livestock industry has declined due to grain subsidies, Manitoba’s thrives in their absence.
Be Realistic about Hydrogen Economy
Solar and wind resources remain feeble sources of electricity
Technology and the Invisible Hand
Technology and the market economy drive improving living standards