One writer’s opinions as to why the Canadian Wheat Board deserves to be dismantled.
Year: 2006
NHS credits would empower poorest patients, says Milburn
Former health secretary, Alan Milburn, wants ‘personal budgets’ so people can spend money on their healthcare according to their own needs or wishes.
Delaying Technology Can Be Deadly
Many pharmaceutical companies are working on gene-altered plants to develop much needed vaccines cost effectively but some groups are opposed to genetically modified vegetation and are hindering their research.
Lives at Risk – Single Payer Health Insurance – John Goodman
Listen to John Goodman discuss single payer health insurance here. (20 minutes)
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Promote Equity by Providing a Quality Education
Earlier this year, a group called Equity Matters asked the province to establish an education equity secretariat. They want this office to oversee equity officers working in Manitoba schools. Equity Matters wants to ensure that all Manitoba students are reflected in...
Why Frances Widdowson Matters
Frances Widdowson probably isn't someone most Canadians recognize. I'm here to tell you why they should. In terms of Canada's intellectual culture, Frances Widdowson matters because she is a classic and prolific academic. In a time when demagoguery easily flourishes,...
Manitoba Sees Fewer Students More Teachers
Statistics Canada data show that Manitoba has added educators — defined as anyone in the school system who requires a teaching certificate — while enrolment has dropped.
Don’t Look Now, But the World Economy Is Booming
The world economy is booming. Today, every single one of these developing countries’ growth rates is positive. Substantially positive. The slowest growth rate, in Brazil, is still a respectable 3.4 percent.
Free to Choose
Free To Choose is about freedom, the interrelationship of personal, political and economic freedom. Free To Choose is about the ideas of Milton and Rose Friedman, ideas that still dominate public policy debates decades after they were first proposed. Free To Choose is about those who refined and continue to extend these ideas.
It’s Going To Take More Than Money
The premiers can posture all they want about the need to honour the Kelowna accord, but unless and until Ottawa makes native leaders more accountable, $8-billion, $9-billion, $20-billion a year won’t solve native problems.
Socialism In Reverse
“All great ideas go through three stages. In the first stage they are ridiculed. In the second stage, they are strongly opposed. And in the third stage they are considered to be self-evident,” the philosopher Schopenhauer once observed. Privatization may not have reached stage three, but it’s getting there.
Higher Interest Rates And Lack Of Land Fuel The Flame To Just Go Bananas
It is so easy to blame governments – especially when they are, in fact, to blame.
Boots Will Open GP Clinics In Its Chemist Shops
The Department of Health in Britain announced proposals to let family doctors open clinics in chemists. The chemist will set up clinics across the country, with the first centres opening before Christmas in Boots stores.
Organic Food and Humvees Are Both Eco-Wasteful
It takes organic farmers roughly twice as much land to produce a ton of food, primarily because they refuse to use nitrogen fertilizer to replace the nitrogen taken from the soil by their growing crops. That means huge tracts of land must be used to “grow nitrogen,” either as cattle pasture or planted to non-food legumes such as clover and hairy vetch.
Fear Trumps Reason in the Politics of Agriculture
Without subsidies, quotas, tariff protection and/or supply management, critics predicted nothing but misery for farmers. Exactly the reverse occurred, according to a paper prepared by David Harris for Australia’s Rural Industries Research and Development Corp