A major American health insurer is now giving its customers much more information, data that will help consumers make intelligent healthcare decisions. Aetna recently added a new feature to their website, allowing members access to prices of services provided and care-quality information of health care officials.
Year: 2006
Go West, Young Man…
The tax policies pursued by western Canada over the past few years are quintessentially supply-side. That is, the tax relief is largely focused on improving incentives for work, savings, investment and entrepreneurship.
Reviewing Federation – With Peter Holle
Watch Peter Holle discuss Federation here. (13 minutes)
Aboriginal Education in Manitoba
Aboriginals are an integral part of Manitoba’s society and, along with everyone else, need to receive a quality education. Current strategies to ensure that are ineffective and should be reconsidered.
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Sustaining a Pariah State: Pakistan’s Ignominious Alliance in Afghanistan
The United Nations (UN) was born out of an idea for creating a society of nations, a global community, a brotherhood of nations built on a set of higher ideals. These ideals would give rise to a global village with accountability to each other, including social...
The Endemic Path is the Way Out
The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach. But his declaration, paraphrasing President...
Switchgrass the ‘Oil’ of the Prairies
The reason for the buzz about switchgrass is it stores a tremendous amount of BTUs (British thermal units) to produce environmentally friendly heat from stoves and furnaces.
Pellet Stoves Cool Way to Keep Warm
“The interest in pellet fuel stoves is really growing. It’s pretty much doubling every year”
Roger Samson, REAP-Canada
Can we win environmentally and economically by using Prairie biomass as heating fuel? Roger Samson emphatically says, “Yes.”
Powerpoint Presentations from Biomass Conference
Powerpoint Presentations from Biomass Conference Portage La Prairie
Cash in on High Oil Prices
Farmer’s Indepent Weekly coverage of Biomass Conference in Portage La Prairie, February 2, 2006.
‘Smart Meters’ Save Energy, Company Says
TORONTO -- After installing electricity meters in dozens of Ontario apartment buildings and townhouses, Ian Stewart thinks he has seen just about everything. Mr. Stewart has found apartments filled with illicit marijuana cultivators, multiple video duplicators and...
The Grass Station
Up in Manitoba, Canada, where they care deeply about staying warm, they’re experimenting with stoves that burn pellets of switch grass.
Taxation: How to Knit a Country Together
History of Taxation in Canada
Canada’s Biomass Potential – Roger Samson Powerpoint
The powerpoint slides from Roger Samson’s presentations in Portage La Prairie and Winnipeg, Frontier Centre for Public Policy on the potential for pelletized biofuels in Manitoba, Canada and North America.