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.
Year: 2005
Junk Auto Insurance Statistics
The latest study claims average premiums were calculated after compiling 3,776,997 rate quotes. But as it would take a small army to collect, process, create a proper statistical model and properly analyze what’s fed into it, the study prompts the question of whether the work was done properly.
Cattle Ruling a Victory for Free Trade
The end of the “mad cow” crisis adds to a string of recent trade victories in agriculture.
Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality
Another story has been unfolding, not as dramatic as the ending of an entire political and economic system but still of great long-term significance
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Military Conquest is Meaningless Without True Social Renewal
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
What Life Looks Like Outside COVID-19 Hysteria
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
The Importance of the WTO Negotiations
Ottawa’s full attention to trade issues is crucial the Prairie economy.
Rainforest Network Targets Third World Poor
The radical Rainforest Action Network is trying to intimidate yet another company into adopting its narrow definition of ethics, ecology and the public interest.
The High Risk of Poor Policy
On Canada’s federal policy vacuum.
Bold Tony pushes Timid Tony aside
Why Tony Blair will accelerate public sector reform in Britain.
The Mexican Lesson — Tequila in Paradise
If private liquor retailing is good enough for Mexico, it’s good enough for us.
BSE: Disaster or Opportunity?
The best way out of the BSE crisis is mandatory testing of every animal.
UK climbs rich list
BRITAIN has pulled further ahead of its rival economies in Europe in a league table of living standards in the world’s richest countries
On the Nanny State
A poignant anonymous counter-point to an increasingly out of control nanny state.
Murderous Margarine?
With bipartisan zeal, Parliament passes a new law based on junk science.