Statistics Canada data show that Manitoba has added educators — defined as anyone in the school system who requires a teaching certificate — while enrolment has dropped.
Year: 2006
Don’t Look Now, But the World Economy Is Booming
The world economy is booming. Today, every single one of these developing countries’ growth rates is positive. Substantially positive. The slowest growth rate, in Brazil, is still a respectable 3.4 percent.
Free to Choose
Free To Choose is about freedom, the interrelationship of personal, political and economic freedom. Free To Choose is about the ideas of Milton and Rose Friedman, ideas that still dominate public policy debates decades after they were first proposed. Free To Choose is about those who refined and continue to extend these ideas.
It’s Going To Take More Than Money
The premiers can posture all they want about the need to honour the Kelowna accord, but unless and until Ottawa makes native leaders more accountable, $8-billion, $9-billion, $20-billion a year won’t solve native problems.
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Raw-Milk Prohibition Reveals Policy Backwardness
Prohibitionists Dig In Heels for Supply Management, Ignore U.S. Success There is a legal way to consume raw milk in Canada: buy it in the United States and bring it home. Of the 13 states bordering Canada, 12 have legal raw milk. More than 40 have it legal in some...
The Pawlowski Decision
In the Alberta Health Services v. Artur Pawlowski and Dawid Pawlowski decision last September, a Court of Queen’s Bench justice found the two brothers in contempt of court. The Pawlowski brothers openly challenged health ordinances and court orders and did not deny...
Winnipeg, Edmonton Score Well on Housing Affordability
A major new study of housing affordability ranks Winnipeg and Edmonton as among the most affordable markets in the world.
Are World’s Best Housing Bargains Here?
WINNIPEG real estate has long been renowned as a bargain in Canada, but a new study says it’s also one of the most affordable housing markets in much of the world.
A Very Canadian Revolution
An election containing larger tectonic shifts when seen against the background of Canada’s recent politics
Dr. Mark Godley, Maples Surgical Clinic, Winnipeg
Can the private sector deliver cost-effective services within a public healthcare system? A Canadian doctor with an established record of doing that says it can, and explains how and why.
Alex Avery, Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute
In both urban and rural communities, stereotypes and preconceived notions about intensive livestock operations, factory farming, the development of genetically modified crops and the use of crop protection products and fertilizers are rife. Alex Avery offers his refreshingly honest perspective.
Poaching Claim Scorned
THE controversial Maples Surgical Centre could become a free training facility for Red River College students studying to be technologists, owner Dr. Mark Godley said yesterday.
Since When is Fending for Yourself a Bad Thing?
OTTAWA -- Here is Prime Minister Paul Martin, in stump speeches and during Monday's debate, defining Canadians' options in the federal election: "Stephen Harper's goal of a fend-for-yourself Canada or my vision of a country in which we strive together toward a common...
A Farmer on Supply Management Privileges
A farmer agrees with our take on supply management . . .
The Proof is in the Phonics
Educational reform proves you should never mess with anything if it isn’t broken to start with.