Powerpoint slides from Michel Kelly-Gagnon speech on the changing perceptions of healthcare in Canada.
Year: 2004
Yvonne Chan PowerPoint: Poor Schools that Work
PowerPoint slides from the 2004 Education Frontiers Lecture featuring Yvonne Chan from Los Angeles
Rural Power and U.S. Elections
Robert Sopuck opines that rural America was the big winner in the U.S. presidential election
Urban Cost Efficiencies
The objections to locating families and business in inner cities can’t be overcome by forcing bad roads on the suburbs and the exurbs. All that will do is stimulate more migration outward and exacerbate the problem of sprawl.
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Our Health Ministers Need to Take a Lesson from Hockey Coaches
Those of you who are tired of my rants about the demise of our once great health system will be pleased to know that this is my last editorial. I am retiring from the BCMJ Editorial Board; currently, I am the longest-serving member (more than 20 years). I have been a...
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
Government Bull
Tired of a weak federal response to the cattle boycott, cattlemen launch a trade complaint under NAFTA.
Where White Men Fear To Tread
Russell Means wants freedom for Indians, not handouts.
WINNIPEG POLICE IN 2003: HIGH STAFFING, LOW CLEARANCE RATES
Although the performance of the Winnipeg Police Service improved slightly in 2003, its relative efficiency is still lower than that of most other large metropolitan forces in Canada. In 2003, Winnipeg had the third highest level of police strength among Canadian...
Sunset Rent Control
It is time for the government to recognize the distortions and damage rent control is doing to the economic and social well-being of the citizens and send it off into the sunset.
Fat so? Be fit-fat
Three recent developments just might show that the war on fat is losing its hold on the media and the public’s imagination.
Left Punch on Russell Means
Winnipeg’s favourite left wing columnist discusses the revolutionary thinking of Russell Means, America’s most famous Indian.
PM Squanders Fiscal Gains
In two days last week, Paul Martin squandered a decade’s effort to put Canada’s public finances in order. You’d think he’d at least exact a big price for this sacrifice.
Russell Means, America’s ‘most famous Indian’
Frontier interviews Russell Means, America’s “most famous Indian,” on aboriginal policy reform, September 16, 2004.
Aboriginal Activist Tells It Like It Is
Not even Russell Means excuses his violent past, but there’s a lot of frustration still out there in Indian country.