The story of two office towers in two cities provides a contrast in policy models.
Year: 2006
Katz Goes With Traffic Flow
Mayor Sam Katz plans to synchronized traffic signals to help decrease Winnipeg’s stop and go traffic.
Alberta’s Model Economy
The rest of the country could learn a thing or two from the way Alberta’s hands off policy leanings
Feds Muzzle the CWB
The Conservative government has ordered the Canadian Wheat Board not to spend funds directly or indirectly on maintaining the monopoly on western grain sales. This has caused an uproar on both sides of the stick.
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Demand Fairness from Ottawa and Edmonton
A few weeks ago, Albertans voted to reduce the inequities in the federal equalization program. The deficit between the dollars that leave to and come back from Ottawa has recently been as high as $27 billion in one year. During times of crisis, it feels like salt in...
Inflation: They Win, You Lose: Politicos, Cronies Fleece Canadians with Monetary Expansion
One of the most widespread economic myths is that inflation—the reduced purchasing power of a currency—is a win for a nation, a sign of a booming economy. For the privileged classes in government and with initial access to monetary expansion, it is a win. For everyone...
Secrecy criticized
The activities of band councils on many Manitoba reserves are hidden behind a veil of secrecy, says the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
The Frontier Centre, a privately funded think-tank with offices in Winnipeg, has ranked all but four of Manitoba’s 63 First Nations on how well they govern.
Harper’s Chance for New Dawn in Canada
OTTAWA -- Here's a perceptive analysis of an important national election: "There is no escaping the stark fact of the repudiation of a regime that had outlived its time. There is no escaping the stark fact that (though the personalities of the candidates played a...
Global Warming will Benefit Canada
A warmer Canada would improve our lives in several ways too numerous to list. Global warming? Let’s hope so.
Aboriginal Governance Index Ranks First Nations
Today the Frontier Centre released its Aboriginal Governance Index, A Ranking of Manitoba’s First Nations. The Index scores all but four of Manitoba’s First Nations in terms of the quality of their governance, and was compiled by means of house-to-house interviews conducted over last fall, this winter and spring.
Aboriginal Governance Index – 2006-2007
How well are Manitoba’s First Nations governed? A groundbreaking Index ranks them according to what their own people think.
Wheat Board Monopoly Unjustified:
Last week, federal Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl suggested there was increasing support for taking away the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly over prairie wheat and barley sales, for letting grain growers choose whether to sell their grain to the federal government...
Our Cities Should Learn to Live Within Our Means
After a decade of mostly raised taxes by New Democrats — with deathbed conversion cuts near the end of their rule — a reduction in the personal tax burden was overdue.
Freeing the Farmers
If you've never heard the old folk tale about the Wild Hogs of Horseshoe Bend, just get Rolf Penner started on farming subsidies. The hog and grain producer from Morris, Man., loves to tell the story of how a clever farmer was able to pen a group of feral pigs by...
Selling Wheat the Soviet Way
Last week, federal Minister of Agriculture Chuck Strahl suggested momentum was growing among farmers for an end to the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly over Prairie grain sales. Since 1943, all wheat and barley farmers in the three Prairie provinces and northeastern...