A climatologist makes the case that the environment auditor should not be pronouncing on policy
Year: 2006
The American Dream: For 300 Million
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Heath Care Costs Reach Tipping Point
With Canada’s current spending practices, health care will be taking all of the provincial revenue within a few decades. Is it time to explore new funding options?
‘Lotto 10-40’ and the Decline in Jobs
A new study compares the history of unemployment in New Brunswick and Maine. Sharing the same borders, resources and economy should there be any drastic differences in their unemployment rates?
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Fostering a Constructive, Business-Friendly Regime Sustains Innovation, Not Government Money
For standards of living to grow, productivity growth must be strong and continually renewed. That is one notion that nearly all economists can agree on. So, it is not surprising that politicians scramble to discover new or not-so-new ways to boost productivity growth....
Big Tech Influence Can Tip Elections
Behavioural psychologist Robert Epstein believes Google can and does influence voters and that research teams in Canada and elsewhere need to monitor how users are being swayed. Epstein, the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and founder of the American...
Global Warming: Some Inconvenient Glaciers
Al Gore says the world’s glaciers are melting because humanity has emitted too much CO2. However, a new peer-reviewed study shows that in South America‘s Andes Mountains the glaciers’ advances and retreats have not been governed by CO2, but by small variations in the...
Falling Further Behind
The Doer government should spend more time on serious economic issues like this and less time on bogus marketing exercises like the “Spirited Energy” campaign if it truly wants to make Manitoba a better place to live.
B.C. First, Manitoba Last in Western Canada Tax Reduction Derby
Since 1999, all Canadian jurisdictions have experienced declining tax loads. The most dramatic reductions have been in B.C. and Alberta, followed by Saskatchewan. Manitoba’s reductions have been the least aggressive in the region, and have declined by only a third of B.C.’s reductions and by less than half of Alberta’s.
Group Rates Manitoba First Nations
The authors of a new study ranking First Nation governments in areas such as human rights and transparency, say they hope their findings will encourage those who scored near the bottom to become more accountable.
Harry’s Policy Manifesto
Powerpoint slides from Lunch on the Frontier presentation by Rev. Harry Lehotsky, New Life Ministries, Winnipeg – June 19, 2006
Ireland Basks in its Economic Spring
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The Pride of Edmonton
Across the United States, school districts are emulating the Edmonton Public School Board’s model of school-based management, diversity and choice.
Left Punch
There have been many tributes, cards, e-mails and visits that Harry has received since we all learned about his illness. One comment that I remember reading is that labelling Harry as an "activist" is limiting his potential as a human being. I beg to differ. To me, an...
Measuring Governance on First Nations
Good people sometimes stuck in bad situations. That’s what surveyers found on Manitoba’s First Nations.