As Ontario snoozes it loses. An Ontario based critic of regional subsidies makes the case for change.
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Year: 2007
Waves of Unthinking Money
Text of David MacKinnon’s speech to the Frontier Centre on how unsustainable regional subsidies are starting to break an Ontario economy beset by severe competitive pressures.
Ontario is an Aging Economic Athlete
Canada’s largest economy is under pressure from the rising dollar and high energy costs.
Your Land Is Not Your Land
A Manitoba farmer recently lost a precedent setting court case against his local municipal government over the expropriation of his property for economic purposes.
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Leon Fontaine – A Passionate Canadian Thought Leader – RIP
This past weekend, we learned of the tragic and unexpected passing of Pastor Leon Fontaine at 59 years of age. Leon was a gifted leader playing many roles both nationally and internationally. He was, with his wife Sally, the senior Pastors at Springs Church with...
Public Inquiries and Public Trust
Testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission reveals the case for government invoking the Emergencies Act is either weak or very weak. The Prime Minister was, in fact, opposed to members of his cabinet or senior public health officials meeting with protest...
Public Consultations on Canada’s Democratic Institutions and Practices
This document reports on findings from the Government of Canada’s public consultations on Canada’s democratic institutions and practices.
Poverty Policies Tend to Impoverish
The poor suffer the most collateral damage when policy is designed for the few, not the many.
China is the Real Environmental Story
Why does Mattel's third recall of China-made toys in less than six weeks prove that concern over global warming is nothing but a luxury that only people in the developed world have the time and lifestyle to indulge? Well, it proves that only indirectly. But it does...
Prairie Spending Patterns Show No Evidence of Child-Care Crisis
People spend more on their house pets than on daycare.
Might be a Good Entre to the Ontario PCs
The way most people in Canada and the West live – in suburbs, pejoratively called sprawl – has become the target of urban planning. Strong, even draconian, land restrictions have been introduced in a number of metropolitan areas. Toronto has been among the more...
Quebec May Ban Some Dishwashing Detergents
Quebec could restrict the sale of dishwashing detergent containing phosphates if the federal government doesn't ban the product to help control blue-green algae, Quebec Environment Minister Line Beauchamp said yesterday. Speaking after a tour of three Outaouais lakes...
Fix Hydro Pricing – Then Sell
At first glance, the idea of privatizing HydroQuébec has obvious appeal. On second thought, maybe not so much.
Peer Review, Publication in Top Journals, Scientific Consensus, and So Forth
An academic talks about funding politics in the climate change research community.
An Aboriginal ‘Glasnost’
There is no housing shortage on the 13,000-hectare Osoyoos reserve, tucked deep in B.C.'s bone-dry interior. Nor are there any apparent signs of poverty. In fact, some of the fanciest facilities in this corner of the Okanagan Valley are on band land. The Osoyoos...