Powerpoint slides from Dr. Al Loyns discusses Wheat Board politics . . .
Year: 2006
Wheat Board Needs to Develop a Backbone
Advocates for the Canadian Wheat Board who say a loss of monopoly power would destroy the agency are mistaken. Its strengths could easily be translated into successful performance in a free market.
Tories Draft Brian Crowley to Advise on Finance Policy
A prominent, but controversial, free-market economist from Atlantic Canada, who has publicly criticized government pay-equity programs and argued that employment insurance, equalization and regional development programs have retarded growth in the economically...
What Can We Learn from Frédéric Bastiat?
An overview of 19th century writer Frédéric Bastiat’s opinions of the proper role of government from his book The Law and the circumstances that brought about those opinions.
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Leon Fontaine – A Passionate Canadian Thought Leader – RIP
This past weekend, we learned of the tragic and unexpected passing of Pastor Leon Fontaine at 59 years of age. Leon was a gifted leader playing many roles both nationally and internationally. He was, with his wife Sally, the senior Pastors at Springs Church with...
Public Inquiries and Public Trust
Testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission reveals the case for government invoking the Emergencies Act is either weak or very weak. The Prime Minister was, in fact, opposed to members of his cabinet or senior public health officials meeting with protest...
How the West Can Save Canada
Funny thing how the new ideas in politics come out of the West, these days. There was a time when the philosophers were in the East, working Quiet Revolutions, or bilingualism and multiculturalism in the name of centralized government. Then, it was as though the...
Saskatchewan Should Lead Transformational Equalization
Saskatchewan has nothing to lose by leading a discussion on transformational equalization, whose goal is to make recipient provinces self-sustaining and dynamic economies.
A Tax’s Time To Die:
The property tax is under attack in Europe
The NDP Won’t Stop Preaching to the Converted
Globe columnist Jeffrey Simpson on why the NDP is stuck intellectually in the past.
Markus Buchart, Former Leader, Green Party of Manitoba
The Province of Manitoba’s policy of “power at cost” is harmful to the people of Manitoba, to Manitoba Hydro and to the environment.
Lifestyles of the Superrich and Not So Famous
Why we are the richest people to have ever lived.
School Choice and Special Education Students
Programs in Florida and Utah that offer the parents of special needs students a choice between special programming and mainstreaming are proving superior to policies directed by political correctness.
Teacher Certification in Canada
Current methods of certifying teachers are not able to meet coming shortages. An alternative certification pioneered in New Jersey offers a way out.
Winnipeg’s Perimeter Highway: Death by Design
Winnipeg’s Perimeter Highway is outdated in design, un-safe for drivers plus it could bestagnating the economy. What’s holding the provice back from updating it to freeway standards?