Certainly no one should be getting their water for free. It’s a resource like any other and deserves to be priced accordingly.
Year: 2006
Ethanol’s Dirty Little Secrets
How do you convince consumers that what's bad for you is good for you? You feed them a load of bull, and hope they don't catch on. So it is with the Ontario and federal governments, which are spinning their pro-ethanol campaigns as consumer-friendly solutions to our...
Moregovernmentfunding.org
The value of intellectual independence, especially in the world of public policy, cannot be underestimated. Author Mark Milke explains how special interest groups funded by government create more pressure for spending.
Higher Property Taxes?
There are smarter ways to raise revenue than raise property taxes.
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The Renewable Part of Hydrogen is the Hype
Once again, the world is staging ClimateFest 26, aka the United Nations Conference of the Parties, where peddlers of alternative energy schemes try to plunge their dippers into the river of climate change funding that flows around the world. This funding is generated...
Small Gestures Speak Louder than Great Deeds
The age-old expression that actions speak louder than words conveys an important insight: character is best judged through action. Anyone can say or promise anything but doing requires ability and skill, discipline and commitment. So, the simplest test of character is...
Equalization should be Scrapped
In the debate on how best to reform "equalization" -- the system by which Ottawa transfers cash from the richer provinces to poorer provinces -- nobody is asking the obvious question: Has the time come to scrap it? Yes, the principle of equalization was, unwisely,...
Lunch on the Frontier – Manitoba – With Ed Schreyer
Lunch on the Frontier
Let’s Compare the ‘Have-Not’ With the ‘Have’
Le Club Chasse et Pêche is a lovely restaurant in Old Montreal where the main courses start at $30 and, one evening this week, it was packed with diners for whom the price was no barrier. The irony of this obvious prosperity is that Quebec is officially a "have-not"...
Nick Ternette on Christopher Hitchens
It was with some hesitation that I approached the press interview with Christopher Hitchens, who is ranked as one of the top 5 intellectuals in the world. I mean, here I am—a lonely, old socialist interviewing an ex-Marxist and libertarian! I had heard nothing good...
Farmers fear $1-billion Property Value Loss from New Water Protection Law Financial run-off
Manitoba farm leaders are frantically trying to convince the province to change new legislation designed to save Lake Winnipeg that could cost farmers over $1 billion, according to some estimates
Blackberry Bonanza
Blackberry Bonanza
Tax Me Out to the Ballgame
Art Modell, owner of the NFL Baltimore Ravens, observed during one of his struggles to get local taxpayers to build him a stadium that “The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries, and I say that with all due respect...
Urban Legend
Jane Jacobs took her pen to my draft and crossed out one phrase, then another. "This isn't clear," she said in her matter-of-fact way, writing in her revisions. "And why isn't the post office mentioned? Or railways?" It was 1994 and I had brought Jane a fund-raising...
The Shape of Health Care to Come:
The Canadian Health Care Consensus Group have come together to provide a platform for bold, reasoned and practical plans for genuine reform of the health system and to demonstrate that there is an emerging consensus among reform-minded observers about the direction that real reform must take.