Globe columnist Jeffrey Simpson on why the NDP is stuck intellectually in the past.
Year: 2006
Markus Buchart, Former Leader, Green Party of Manitoba
The Province of Manitoba’s policy of “power at cost” is harmful to the people of Manitoba, to Manitoba Hydro and to the environment.
Lifestyles of the Superrich and Not So Famous
Why we are the richest people to have ever lived.
School Choice and Special Education Students
Programs in Florida and Utah that offer the parents of special needs students a choice between special programming and mainstreaming are proving superior to policies directed by political correctness.
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Military Conquest is Meaningless Without True Social Renewal
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
What Life Looks Like Outside COVID-19 Hysteria
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
Phosphorus and the Law
We’ve got to fix Lake Winnipeg. But how we do that makes all the difference.
Political Weather
It may be getting even tougher to pick a winter holiday destination. If media reports are to be believed, we could soon add Regina and Thunder Bay to our list of winter fun spots, given the 3.9 C rise in temperature above the ostensible long-term average estimated by...
Crunchy Con a Hybrid Politico
AS a writer for the right-wing U.S. journal National Review, Rod Dreher had conservative credentials that should have been impeccable. But when his colleagues raised eyebrows at his penchant for organic vegetables and his family's choice to home school, Dreher was...
Controversial journalist Hitchens to speak in city
The Winnipeg Free Press announces upcoming Frontier Centre event.
Hot Air on Wind Power
Up in our rural neck of the woods, where very little happens, everyone is in a tizzy. The wind companies have arrived. Suddenly, there are giant wind farms sprouting 30-storey turbines on our horizon. The wind company salesmen are knocking on doors trying to sign up...
BC Liquor Model Pushes Prices Higher
It shouldn't surprise anyone that prices for some alcoholic beverages will be higher in private liquor stores than in government-owned B.C. liquor stores. The provincial government's half-hearted and ultimately counterproductive approach to competition in 2002 botched...
‘For God’s Sake, Please Just Stop Aid’
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted at a summit in 2000, are extremely ambitious, especially for least developed countries. They include halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty (i.e., on less than a dollar a day) between...
A Messy Triumph for Democracy
Canadian elections don’t usually include bribery and intimidation, but the hunt for a new Chief did at the Norway House Cree Nation. Despite that, the people said their votes weren’t for sale.
Reforming the Wheat Board Without a Fight
Free-market farmers are saying the Harper government can revoke a harmful monopoly without amending the Wheat Board Act.