Cross-border sampling results agree with most of the studies that have been done. Farmers just south of the border get paid more for identical wheat and barley crops. The Wheat Board’s so-called price advantage is a chimera.
Year: 2006
Gas Tax to go for Highways
The NDP government introduced legislation Thursday that will mandate all money collected from on-road fuel tax be dedicated to the province’s highways. The move was promised in this year’s throne speech. The gas tax is 15 cents per litre and the government collects...
A Nudge for Rip Van Winkle
Saskatchewan just cut its provincial tax, when is Manitoba going to join in on the tax cutting?
How Alberta’s next premier can lead in health care
Alberta has already proved that responsible public-private competition has helped its education programs now Albertans are asking for the same to be applied to its healthcare programs.
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Let’s Celebrate Reaching Global Population of Eight Billion
Recently, the United Nations estimated that the population of Planet Earth had reached eight billion souls. Despite the chatter of the highly subsidized climate doomster complex this is quite an achievement - it certainly indicates that the carrying capacity of our...
China’s “Truckers’ Convoy”
Anti-lockdown protests are now taking place across China - the Chinese equivalent of our Truckers’ Convoy. The protests are a reaction to the brutal policies that literally lock people in their apartments, when even one infection is detected. As in Canada, when...
Royal Society Must Apologize for Suppressing Climate Debate
The Royal Society is wrong to join the chorus of global warming advocates in saying there is no debate to be had – climate change is a consequence of human activity and anybody who says otherwise is to be scorned.
The Gender Gap in Education
The old gender gap in schools, where boys did better than girls, has been reversed. Now we need to address the problem’s mirror image, where girls are beating boys by wide margins.
This Land Is My Land
Canada's much vaunted reputation for tolerance took a beating this summer in Caledonia, a town 80km (50 miles) south-west of Toronto, where a new housing development on land claimed by the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy has sparked off a series of ugly clashes...
Sweden Has Learned From Its Own Lesson
After over a decade of Social Democrat rule, Sweden has ellected the centre-right Alliance with their visions of a free economy.
Good News for Malaria Victims
Emphasis is finally being placed on intentse, comprehensive, sustained programs that have worked in other malarial nations.
Expanding the Trades
Manitoba’s school system overemphasizes university entrance, and the result is huge drop-out rates in universities and a shortage of skilled tradesmen. The German system of apprenticeship works better.
Raise City Taxes
For years the City of Winnipeg has been complaining about lack of money for road repair and general city maintenance maybe an increase in property taxes would give them the extra money for these needed projects.
People or Frameworks?
Legislative framework is more important than personality in achieving high peformance city government.
Petrocan Debt has Taxpayer Over a Barrel
Who knew that a couple of years after selling off the last of our Petrocan shares we’d still be paying for it?