We are, as a nation, spending a great deal more to get a small improvement in the service, because there are too few incentives to guarantee value for money. Sound familiar? The resistance to consumer choice in healthcare rests on the argument that only the informed and the assertive would benefit. But in a system that permits choice, there is an incentive for more and more people to become informed and assertive (and even those who don’t, benefit from the power of those who do).
Year: 2004
Marketing Manitoba Public Schools – PowerPoint
Sandra Sukhan’s powerpoint slides on marketing the Sunrise School Division to international students.
Winnipeg, satellites well policed: report
Statistics Canada’s report on Police Resources in Canada 2004 said among census metropolitan areas over 500,000 population, Winnipeg had the most police per 100,000 population, with 179 officers. Winnipeg was followed by Toronto at 173 officers.
The Greatest Canadian Supported User Fees
Tommy Douglas advocated healthcare user fees.
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Government Should Stay Out of Our Snacks
If people want to eat foods that contain trans fats, they must have that freedom. And if they want to ignore warnings about trans fats, they must have that freedom, too.
Environmentalists lack compassion for poor: author
ENVIRONMENTAL groups are operating in a moral vacuum with no regard for the lives and welfare of people in developing countries, says a man who once took up the cause of environmentalism.
Law of the Labour Back Benches
Some say “modernisation” is an empty term. It is not. It means creating left-of-centre policies that allow more effective responses to the changes transforming contemporary societies. The Nordic social democrats, and new Labour in Britain, have been in the vanguard of such modernisation.
Bill 13 – Mainstreaming Mania
New provincial regulations on special education shatter the myth of local control.
Needed: Ethics for Environmental Activists
Environmental activists specializes in preaching, but their own moral standing is suspect.
Moore Wisdom Needed
A portrait of Patrick Moore, modern environmentalist
Reduced School Taxes KAP Victory
The Government of Manitoba has reduced the education tax levels on farmland.
Murderous London is like old New York
It was James Q Wilson’s now legendary “broken windows” hypothesis which stated that when a neighbourhood, or a city, had become rundown and uncared-for – when its buildings and trains were covered in graffiti, its streets strewn with rubbish, and its youth allowed to indulge in flagrant displays of delinquent bravado – a climate was created in which serious crimes such as murder and robbery could run amok.
A “Poor” School that Works
Who says disadvantaged children can’t learn? A dynamic principal beats the odds.