“All great ideas go through three stages. In the first stage they are ridiculed. In the second stage, they are strongly opposed. And in the third stage they are considered to be self-evident,” the philosopher Schopenhauer once observed. Privatization may not have reached stage three, but it’s getting there.
Year: 2006
Higher Interest Rates And Lack Of Land Fuel The Flame To Just Go Bananas
It is so easy to blame governments – especially when they are, in fact, to blame.
Boots Will Open GP Clinics In Its Chemist Shops
The Department of Health in Britain announced proposals to let family doctors open clinics in chemists. The chemist will set up clinics across the country, with the first centres opening before Christmas in Boots stores.
Organic Food and Humvees Are Both Eco-Wasteful
It takes organic farmers roughly twice as much land to produce a ton of food, primarily because they refuse to use nitrogen fertilizer to replace the nitrogen taken from the soil by their growing crops. That means huge tracts of land must be used to “grow nitrogen,” either as cattle pasture or planted to non-food legumes such as clover and hairy vetch.
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How the Prairie Provinces Can Benefit from an Improved Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was one of the world’s most ambitious trade deals. The agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States was signed on February 4, 2016. Its goal was...
Social Conflict Abridged: From Unperceived Injuries to Claiming—What is Conflict?
Societies today are in a state of flux influenced by myriad factors—globalization versus nationalism, liberalization versus traditional values, and immigration versus closed borders. Some people perceive that an injustice has been committed against them while others...
Life in the 1500’S
Here are some facts about the1500s: Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom...
Ireland is Third from the Top in Think-Tank Economy Table
THE Irish economy has been ranked as the third freest in the world in an international study by a major US think-tank, the Heritage Foundation. Ireland jumped two places in 2005, behind Hong Kong and Singapore, having steadily climbed up through the rankings in...
Exploding Modern Agriculture Myths – PowerPoint
From Lunch on the Frontier -Exploding Modern Myths in Agriculture – by Alex Avery, January 10th, 2006 in Winnipeg
Organic Farmers Sowing Fear?
THE organic food industry is using fear-mongering to bolster its profits, says the author of a new book on organic farming.
Russia’s Godfather Saga
A Russian reformer, who spoke to the Frontier Centre in 2000, pulls the pin on President Putin . . .
Lunch on the Frontier – The Myths of Modern Agriculture – With Alex Avery
Watch Alex Avery discuss modern agriculture on Lunch on the Frontier. (48 minutes)
The Call for Lower Taxes is Canadian, not American
Those who love taxes will unhappily discover theirs are heading down this year. A British Columbian who earns $45,000 will pay $133 less compared to 2005. Add in the late 2005 please-vote-for-me changes added by Finance Minister Ralph Goodale, and a British Columbian...
Royal Mail’s Reign Comes to End
LONDON — Royal Mail Group PLC’s virtual 350-year monopoly of the British letter-delivery market ended yesterday as new rules took effect to enable rivals to compete for a share of the potentially lucrative business. .
Yes – We Will Feel Better if We are Taxed More. It’s True!
We all feel bad. We all feel sad. We all have those “need-to-be-taxed-more” blues. This is the remarkable conclusion being drawn from British economist Richard Layard’s recent book, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science. We are being told that although wealth has...