Mr Lamb believes that he can win over activists, generally more leftwing than MPs, by showing that selling shares to employees would safeguard the dwindling post office network and give employees much more of a say in the way the business is run.
Year: 2005
Moveon Beyond Kyoto
Even though it is widely agreed that the Kyoto-mandated reductions will not be sufficient to have any measurable effect on global temperatures, just agreeing to reduce seems “greener” than any solution that relies on technology, since technology is perceived to be the root of all environmental troubles anyway.
Shrink Waiting Lists the British Way
Tony Blair’s Health Minister
‘Spending High, Services Poor’
“Canadians continue to not get value for their money,” said Nadeem Esmail, co-author of the report, released yesterday by the Fraser Institute think-tank.
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Apple’s “Security” Pitch Conveniently Protects the iOS-Android Duopoly
In October, Apple Inc. warned that draft rules from the European Union that would require the technology company to open up its mobile operating system to third-party apps would pose a security risk to its users. Expanding on comments already made by CEO Tim Cook, a...
The Private Sector Could Save Medicare
Are we going to ideologize ourselves off the demographic cliff or do something substantive to save Medicare?
Fevered Dreams
Who says the car isn’t a better way to get around?
Daycare Straitjacket
Latest federal childrens plan puts parents in a daycare straitjacket. When it comes to looking after their children, they need the government to help give them more, not less, choice
Transit Blasphemies
Light-rail mass transit is an expensive and inefficient means to move people around within cities. The car and improved bus transit work better.
Wishes and Horses for Africa
“I would promote wind for power, not damming more rivers,” says actor Ed Begley, Jr. It’s low-cost, renewable, inexhaustible, eco-friendly and emits no greenhouse gases. If banks and energy companies financed wind energy projects, they’d help protect wildlife and...
Profits or Health and Smoking Bans
First Nations are invoking self-government to evade smoking bans.
Back Ends
A look at the humble beginnings of standardized measurements.
The Devil in the Donuts – PowerPoint
Powerpoint slides from Frontier Policy Briefing “Devil in the Donuts” by Ag Policy Fellow Rolf Penner discusses the shaky science behind the politics of the looming trans fat ban.
Farmer Fights Ban on Trans Fat
A Manitoba farmer is crusading against Canada's proposed ban on trans fats, even though the ban might be a boon to Prairie farmers. Agricultural commentator Rolf Penner started digging into research on the health problems attributed to trans fats after Parliament...