Prices, markets, incentives and fiscal responsibility from Canada’s Greens? You better believe it.
Year: 2005
An Environmental Policy for the 21st Century
Environmental policy is no longer the purview of statists and interventionists. A new view that puts human needs in the equation is emerging.
Automobiles, Key to Katrina and Rita Evacuation
Autos worked partly because people who owned autos were not dependent on the effectiveness or competence of public officials.
Living with Proportional Voting
New Zealand reformed its electoral system, and wishes it hadn’t.
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Policy Restrictions have Caused the Housing Crisis
The choice we face is clear: a modest expansion of greenfield development or greater housing poverty For 18 years, I have been monitoring international housing affordability, as author or co-author of the Demographia Housing Affordability series. The latest...
Leaders on the Frontier | So Much More We Can Be with the Hon. Grant Devine, Premier of Saskatchewan 1982-1991
The April 1982 Saskatchewan election proved to be a major turning point in the province's history. Over its nine years in office, the Devine government commenced and completed numerous policy initiatives in spite of considerable challenges including two recessions. ...
Equalization: Welfare Trap or Helping Hand
Brian Lee Crowley, President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, leads a seminar on equalization policy in Winnipeg, April 21, 2005.
Transit Disneyland in Winnipeg
Expensive forms of transit such as exclusive busways and rail lines have done little to generate new riders, while their high cost has often forced transit agencies to cut back bus services.
Lost PMU Farms – Victims of Junk Science
Based on a dishonest use of numbers, a lot of women who could be helped by estrogen therapy are refusing it, and the industry is contracting.
The Help that Hurts
The President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Brian Lee Crowley discusses how equalization harms Saskatchewan in a Frontier Centre speech in Regina, April 20, 2005
Farmers’ New Trials Contain a Silver Lining
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal tossed cases out on Monday for the six grain farmers who tried to haul wheat across the border into the United States, to protest the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly on Western-based grain exports
Sweden’s School Voucher Program
This Scandinavian country created an internal market for public education; now almost everybody wants to keep it.
School Vouchers in Sweden
Sweden introduced full vouchers in 1992; competition from private schools has improved the quality of public schools.
Canada’s Growing Public Sector
The gain in public sector employment (federal, provincial and local governments) was 37,800. That meant that private, tax-paying employers must have reduced their workforces by 8,400 jobs.
Kunskapsskolan – An Entrepreneurial Success Story
Profit may be a dirty word to some, but one company motivated by it is improving public education in Sweden.