Well intended equalization keeps Manitoba in a “have not” province purgatory
Year: 2006
The Wheat Board: To Vote or Not to Vote
A Wheat Board plebiscite at best will accomplish nothing and at worst derail the Conservatives’ promise of marketing choice even as it alienates their Western base.
Creating a High Performance Public School System in Manitoba
If we adopted a clear-headed, results-oriented philosophy of education „Ÿ and embarked in a consequent manner on the reform of standards, finances and administration „Ÿ we could create the strongest public school system in the country. Instead of the province which spends the largest percentage of GDP on schools, Manitoba would become renowned as the province that achieved the best results.
Time to Make Secondary Suites Legal
With vacancy at an all time low, wouldn’t making existing dwellings legally available be a logical solution?
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To Infinity and Beyond
Space exploration is fraught with a wide variety of hazards; solar storms could irradiate astronauts, collisions with small, unseen objects could cause instant death, and the acts of both leaving Earth and coming back are high risk maneuvers that involve high speeds...
Global Minimum Tax Is Cartel Scam with Loopholes
Rhetoric is one thing; reality is another. As is becoming increasingly clear, the OECD’s July 1 proposal for a 15 per cent global minimum for corporate taxation is nothing of the sort. Although the awaited initiative slated for 2023 will not and cannot achieve a level...
Will “Parent Power” Proceed in Britain?
Despite internal Labour party opposition, Tony Blair’s government is pursuing what amounts to a voucher system to improve low-performing public schools.
Pay Provinces Debt Seize the Credit Cards
OTTAWA -- Canada has pressed rich countries to forgive the debts of poor countries. Or, at the least, to make the monthly payments for them. (Former finance minister Ralph Goodale proposed last year "a permanent debt relief solution" for poor countries -- a program...
Writing’s on the Wall for Graffiti
A MASSIVE blitz to wipe out the scourge of graffiti is to be launched by the Government. Under new powers schools, hospitals and rail companies will be ordered by town halls to clean up daubed and defaced buildings. Private homes and businesses could also be targeted....
Hot Swedish Models!
Sweden is a country of many economic and political contradictions: the highest tax pressure in the Western world and low corporate taxes, school vouchers and state-run universities, a regulated economy but a free private sphere. In short, part socialism, part market...
Centralization: Canada’s Cure – or Problem?
Canadians do have a choice, but it is not between a strong federation and a decentralized confederation, it is between decentralization and separation.
Lunch on the Frontier – With Andrew Coyne
Watch Lunch on the Frontier with Andrew Coyne here. (29 minutes)
Fair Equalization Payments? Not in Canada
OTTAWA -- In 2004, Canadians smoked an average of 1,207 cigarettes each. Quebeckers smoked an average of 1,434 cigarettes -- 227 more. This disparity cost Quebec almost $190-million in lost federal equalization payments. It wasn't a penalty for smoking too many...
Selinger’s Focus on Handouts
What Manitoba needs is a strategy to reduce dependence on transfers, not increase it.
Health-care fundamentalists refuse to bend
The annoying thing about fundamentalism is that it takes an idea and holds to it without interpretation, nuance or questioning. It dismisses contrary evidence and pays attention only to that which reinforces the belief first taken on faith. The most recent example is...