After over a decade of Social Democrat rule, Sweden has ellected the centre-right Alliance with their visions of a free economy.
Year: 2006
Expanding the Trades
Manitoba’s school system overemphasizes university entrance, and the result is huge drop-out rates in universities and a shortage of skilled tradesmen. The German system of apprenticeship works better.
People or Frameworks?
Legislative framework is more important than personality in achieving high peformance city government.
Raise City Taxes
For years the City of Winnipeg has been complaining about lack of money for road repair and general city maintenance maybe an increase in property taxes would give them the extra money for these needed projects.
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Trust is the Foundation of Authority
The heartbreaking death of Nathanael Spitzer, the cancer-stricken boy from Ponoka, exposed a most callous streak in Alberta’s medical bureaucracy. There is no forgiving how Alberta Health Services appallingly used a child’s death to promote yet more COVID-19 fear. ...
Apple’s “Security” Pitch Conveniently Protects the iOS-Android Duopoly
In October, Apple Inc. warned that draft rules from the European Union that would require the technology company to open up its mobile operating system to third-party apps would pose a security risk to its users. Expanding on comments already made by CEO Tim Cook, a...
Do We Still Need Human Rights Commissions?
A Calgary imam’s claims of journalistic hatred should be dismissed;
these agencies were not intended for shutting down a free press.
Subsidies at Root of Farm-Income Crisis
In the last nineteen years, OECD countries transferred a combined $US 4.79 trillion in subsidies to farmers. These payments have distorted incentives to growers and encouraged them to produce more than they otherwise would or produce what they otherwise wouldn’t.
Global Warming on CJOB Radio
Listen to Denis Owens discuss 'Something going on with the environment on CJOB' here. (30 minutes)
Don’t Believe all that Talk about a Fiscal Imbalance
Premier Gordon Campbell's trip to Ottawa to chat with Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- and to hit up Ottawa for money -- is a Canadian tradition almost as old as Quebec sugaring-off parties, lacrosse and the fur trade. Before 1867, the colonies (later the provinces)...
Revising The Suburbs
Sprawl. It's an ugly word. The term often evokes images that are even uglier: Green space lost to an asphalt desert of strip malls and highways. Citizens trapped in cars and a fast-food lifestyle that leaves them tired, stressed, and overweight. Pollution and global...
Pension off School Boards
Manitoba’s modern experience with school divisions is uniformly negative. Let’s modernize school administration and funding.
Manitoba’s Water Protection Act
Everybody wants to restore the health of Lake Winnipeg, but the province’s means of doing that is flawed. It may not solve the problem even as it imposes heavy costs on the agricultural sector.
Alberta Leadership Candidate lets Separatism Genie out of its Bottle
Mark Norris, campaigning to lead Alberta's Conservative government, told the Calgary Sun two weeks ago that if Ottawa tries another raid on Alberta like the NEP -- or Kyoto -- Albertans should separate. No Alberta politician, except a few fringe party separatists, has...
Conflict of interest in the public sector
Never underestimate the ability of status quo proponents to mislead and fear-monger on health-care reform. A new study out from the Edmonton-based Parkland Institute is an example of, at best, fear overpowering reason. At worst, it's a disinformation campaign financed...