A study of Canadian voting patterns reveals “deep pockets of political ignorance.”
Year: 2005
Equalization Called a Drag on Productivity
OTTAWA - The fiscal framework underlying Canada's federal system -- in which wealthy provinces contribute to payments targeted for have-not provinces -- is a drag on the country's productivity growth and is in need of an overhaul, says Toronto-based economic...
A Debate Over Swedish Health Care Reform
A Winnipeg editorialist takes a hit for praising the opening of the healthcare market in Stockholm, and Johan Hjertqvist responds to the critics.
The Sound of Shifting Delusions
Political attitutes regarding health care are changing!
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Young Winnipeggers optimistic about city’s image
Probe research conducted a survey about Winnipeg
Indoctrinating pro-Kyoto views
When the scientific experts and the government can agree, who will you believe?
Geoffrey Segal, Director of Government Reform, Reason Foundation
Frontier Centre:You have described the contracting out of government services as a rapidly growing phenomenon. Is it still? Geoffrey Segal: Well, rapidly is a very subjective term and it really is relative to past experience. When we look specifically at the United...
Higher Prices, Fewer Choices – Manitoba’s Rent Control Failure
Manitoba’s rent control policies strangle the supply and quality of available apartments and unnecessarily increase their price.
Tasha Kheiriddin, Co-Author of Rescuing Canada’s Right
The way to challenge the federal political hegemony of the Liberal Party, according to this author, is to build a small-“c” conservative infrastructure.
Playing Russian Roulette with Trade
It’s unanimous; all parties in Parliament are risking Canada’s whole farm sector by catering to the interests of a small minority.
Celebrities Love New York Rent Control
Regulations meant to protect people with lower incomes has become a joke when those that can afford to pay the higher rent do not.
Portland: Lost in Its Own Reflection
Few cities in North America are as widely feted as Portland. For many, Portland represents the epitome of "smart" urbanism, a paragon that puts other, less-brainy places to shame. Pilgrims travel once or twice a month from as far as California and Canada to study...
Human Rights that Really Matter
Threatened aid cutoffs and agricultural export bans against any malaria-endemic country that even suggests it might use DDT are major human rights abuses.