Winnipeg Regional Health Authority CEO Dr. Brian Postl has been named head of some federal health-care wait list commission by Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Year: 2005
Hospitals Lose Elite Status
More than 20 hospital trusts achieved “below average” scores for tackling the MRSA superbug, but one in three is running deficits which contributed to the NHS overspending its budget last year by £500 million.
Our Free Market Past
Forget the notion of Canadian history as a long succession of government interventions. Private initiatives and individual liberties forged this country.
In Private Enterprise We (mis)Trust
Should governments look to public-private partnerships (P3s) to cure all that ails healthcare? Manitoba says “no” and Nova Scotia says “maybe” but then along came the Supreme Court, throwing a wrench in the works with a decision that’s widely seen as a threat to the public healthcare status quo.
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Frustrated Farmers Take Over Ontario Freeways
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Feeding the Giant Patronage Machine
The truth about foreign aid: For more than half a century, it has been either ineffective or counterproductive in stimulating prosperity.
The Minimum Wage: Forbidding People To Work
Raising minimum wages is a good way to expand poverty.
Sour Milk System
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Randal O’Toole, Author of The Vanishing Automobile
If Winnipeg wants to spend a lot of money with very little in return, light rail transit is the answer.
Saskatchewan Wants New Deal
Now that Newfoundland and Nova Scotia have a new energy revenue deal with the federal government, Saskatchewan wants one.
Private Healthcare will Benefit Poor
In a speech to a thinktank, British Health Secretary John Reid will argue that the extension of choice, including the gradually ex tended offer of state-funded care in the private sector, helps the poor despite opposition from many NHS staff.
Riders Won’t Flock to New System: Expert
RAPID transit systems don’t shrink congestion, boost transit ridership or encourage economic development, said an economist and urban sprawl expert yesterday.
Expert Punctures Myth of Rapid Transit
If city hall is still considering building a light rail transit system to beef up public transit ridership, they may want to tune in to the research of Randal O’Toole, a U.S. author and economist who has studied rapid transit to death.
His conclusion, after studying the effects of LRT and bus rapid transit in dozens of U.S. and European countries, is that they do little, if anything, to increase ridership.