Probe research conducted a survey about Winnipeg
Year: 2005
Indoctrinating pro-Kyoto views
When the scientific experts and the government can agree, who will you believe?
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.
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...
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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...
Poor Countries Tear Down This Wall!
The big World Trade Organization meeting in Hong Kong next week is widely expected to be a flop, just like its predecessor in Cancun two years ago. But it doesn't have to be. Ministers from 148 countries, gathering for the latest session in the Doha Round aimed at...
Profitable Health Care
When will the patient’s pains and suffering be addressed by our government. The saying “if it is not broke don’t fix it” does not apply to our medical system as it has been broken for decades.
U.S. States Learn to Save by not Spending
Government should re-examine their taxation policies and get with the program of fiscal responsibility.
Will We Freeze or Will We Fry?
With global warming already messing up the planet, there's always something new to worry about. Just as I was fretting about the big melt in the Arctic, along came news about the coming freeze in Europe. In another decade, Bordeaux could get as chilly as Moscow, and...
Famed Mag Says We’re a Mess
OTTAWA -- Canada is still cool but our politics is "a fractured mess," says the influential British magazine The Economist. Two years after first declaring Canada "rather cool," the latest edition of the weekly concludes the country is "not at its best, just at the...
China’s New Growth—What Canada Can Learn
Should Canada remain a supplier of raw resources, or embrace economic expansion like the Chinese?
Growing Hog Opportunities on the Prairies
Further growth in the burgeoning pork industry is hampered by high feed costs, and a simple solution is available.
Auto Insurance: Comparing Apples and Oranges
The Consumers Association does Canadians no favours when it distorts auto insurance rates to make publicly owned schemes look better.
Managing and Protecting Alberta’s Petro-wealth
Oil riches can quickly evaporate unless they’re protected from internal and external looting.