The Doer government should take a good look at this report, and many others that draw similar conclusions, before drafting its 2006 budget.
Year: 2005
Always Low Tactics. Always.
What Wal-Mart’s opponents can’t win through organizing or in the marketplace, it seems, they now seek to achieve through the raw exercise of political power. One can hardly blame them for sticking with what works.
We Need 250 States
Terry Anderson and Peter Hill make an argument that suggests that democracy does not scale well. As the size of the constituency group gets large, the politician becomes less accountable. Politicians find it easier to extract rents and abuse powers
The problem with ghetto grocers
Inner-city poverty – It’s costly being poor
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What Must Be Done to Curb Canada’s Household Debt
Canada is struggling economically. From inflation and deficits to investment and employment, everything that should be up is down, and everything that should be down is up. One striking symptom of economic rot is household debt, which is rising faster than incomes....
Crown Utilities’ Unfair Advantages Reduce Competition, Innovation
Largely unique among state-owned enterprises, ‘SEOs’, worldwide, Canadian Crown corporations have two key advantages over current and future private sector competitors: non-taxable status and access to low-cost public sector borrowing rates. Other implicit edges...
Manitoba’s Record Population Growth
According to Statistics Canada, the number of new immigrants and people from other parts of Canada who made Manitoba their home in 2004 was the highest in at least 35 years.
Facts versus Fears on Biotechnology
The misplaced opposition to genetically modified crops in the Third World violates poor people’s basic human rights.
Weed Killers Benign
Chemophobes are pressuring the City of Brandon to ban herbicides. The City should show them the door.
Reading, Writing, ROI
How did we — teachers, principals and our chief executive, Paul Vallas — do it? We defined the district’s “customers” exclusively as the 200,000 children we serve. Not interest groups. Not adult constituencies. We held adults accountable for results.
Developing Canadian Agricultural Policy
Canadian farm policy is developed by bureaucrats while U.S. farm policy is developed by elected officials. That makes all the difference.
Death of a Movement
The great strength of the environmental movement of the 1970s and 1980s was its advocacy of small-scale, decentralized solutions to environmental problems, an advocacy that questioned big government and big unions, as well as big corporations — a more unified, inclusive effort that links traditional environmentalists with labour unions and other “progressive” communities — would only centralize power and make everything that much worse.
New Europe’s New Flat Taxes
Think back 20 years. Any suggestion that eastern and central Europe were desirable economic models came only from Western socialists, university professors and others with an eternal grudge against free markets. What a difference perestroika, McDonald's in Moscow, the...
Melting Ice-cap – a Natural Cycle?
The melting of sea ice at the North Pole may be the result of a centuries-old natural cycle and not an indicator of man-made global warming, Scottish scientists have found.
Railing Against Cars
Nick Ternette blasts Frontier Centre’s critique of light rail transit. This includes FCPP’s response.