Contrarian opines on religion to his crowd of followers
Year: 2006
Bjørn Lomborg, the Skeptical Environmentalist, 2006 Update
TCS Contributor Jason Miks recently interviewed Danish statistician and author Bjørn Lomborg.
Give Patients Info on Quality
Safety, or the lack of it, is a growing problem in Canadian healthcare, and both consumers and providers would benefit from a healthy dose of information about the problem.
Speaker Attacks Sacred Cows
Vaclav Smil has spent a 35-year career establishing a reputation as a world-renowned energy expert from his office at the University of Manitoba but he could easily ditch the halls of academia and go on tour as The Energy Comic. Smil had the normally sombre crowd who...
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Our Health Ministers Need to Take a Lesson from Hockey Coaches
Those of you who are tired of my rants about the demise of our once great health system will be pleased to know that this is my last editorial. I am retiring from the BCMJ Editorial Board; currently, I am the longest-serving member (more than 20 years). I have been a...
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
Nothing to Fear from a Bigfoot
Peter Foster’s response to the recently released World Wildlife Fund for Nature’s 2006 Living Planet Report.
Richard Vedder, Ohio University, on post-secondary education
In many respects, universities are failing in their primary mission. Students pay more and more for a diminished product, a function of perverse incentives that allow universities to dodge normal measures of efficiency and effectiveness.
Healthcare Wait Times Longer, Think Tank Says
Hightlights from the annual Fraser Institute study comparing health care wait times for each province.
Witnesses Question Voters List Changes
Everyone involved in the CWB dispute seems to have an opinion. Here are some sides of the debate.
No. 1,000,000 Here & There
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NHS credits would empower poorest patients, says Milburn
Former health secretary, Alan Milburn, wants ‘personal budgets’ so people can spend money on their healthcare according to their own needs or wishes.
Airing Out the Wet Blanket
The outdated monopoly power of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) sits like a wet blanket over the entire Prairie economy. From plant breeders through to the farm gate and on to our rural communities, into our cities and right to our ports, the dampening effect is widespread, pervasive and tangible.
Free the Grain
One writer’s opinions as to why the Canadian Wheat Board deserves to be dismantled.
Delaying Technology Can Be Deadly
Many pharmaceutical companies are working on gene-altered plants to develop much needed vaccines cost effectively but some groups are opposed to genetically modified vegetation and are hindering their research.