Misguided energy policies are harming the world’s poor by impeding their technological development and their economy.
Year: 2006
Report Outlines CWB Change
Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl has released a new report outlining the changes he plans to implement regarding the CWB by 2008.
Ottawa Should Leave Unemployment Insurance to the Provinces
The Atlantic provices need to grow up and join the 2tst century and stop relying on Employment Insurance for income.
Wheat Board Fast Track Urged
Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl has released a new report outlining the changes he plans to implement regarding the CWB by 2008.
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No Evidence of Climate Crisis
In his annual State of the Climate report published on April 14, 2022, Dr. Ole Humlum, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oslo, examined detailed patterns in temperature changes in the atmosphere and oceans together with trends in climate impacts. Many of these...
It Is Time to Move On
I wrote an opinion column immediately following the May 27, 2021 announcement of the “shocking discovery of 215 bodies found in a mass grave at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.” In that column, I correctly stressed the need to wait for real...
Heat Wave Was ‘Truly Amazing’
Seventy years ago, a two-week heat wave across much of Canada claimed the lives of almost 800 people, destroyed crops, killed livestock and even prompted the authorities to allow topless bathing suits on men.
The Flypaper Effect
This paper jointly published by Halifax’s Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and the Frontier Centre demonstrates that equalization subsidies simply inflate the size of the recipient province’s public sectors, more government personnel with higher salaries, at the cost of more effective public services.
The Irish Join the World’s Wealthiest
Once the paupers of Europe, the Irish have rapidly moved to a place at the top table. Within just a decade, the personal net worth of the average Irish citizen has more than trebled from €46,000 to €148,000 (£102,000).
Please Don’t Take Away My Hamburgers
The latest thing to come under attack by the health harpies and fitness fanatics is fast food, particularly hamburgers and french fries. They cause obesity, we are told, and, having beaten back tobacco and put a leash on demon rum, this is the latest front for the legions of society’s joyless crusaders.
Do We Over-Equalize?
Making the case for a needs-based approach to equalization to prevent over subsidizing recipient provinces in the goal of providing “reasonable” levels of public services.
A Chinese Lesson for Western Economists
Wei Jie points out that income inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient may worsen as incomes at the lowest levels are increasing — at the same time as the poor are getting richer
Farmers to Rally Behind Board
The Conservatives promised during the federal election campaign to institute a dual-marketing system, which critics say will essentially gut the Winnipeg-based wheat board.
Charitable Giving In Canada
The claim that taxes might come down if Canadians increased private donations has it backwards. We can’t give more because we’re not left with enough disposable income to do that.
Time to Get Real about Transit
It is time for policy-makers to level with the public about transit. People are not going to sacrifice more than three hours a week to travel by work to transit. There will never be sufficient funding to make transit competitive to much more than downtown.