How government policy conspires to rip off Canadian consumers.
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BACK TO THE FUTURE: LAND TRANSPORT AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
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When We Stop Laughing at Belgium, We Might Want to Cry
Poor Belgium. If it didn’t exist, it would have to be invented. Somebody, after all, has to serve as the butt of jokes about intellectually-challenged clodhoppers. As the country passed its record 150th day this week without a legitimate government, it solidified its...
A Discussion on Manitoba – With Jon Gerrard
Listen to Jon Gerrard speak about the state of Manitoba and healthcare here. (56 minutes)
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Promote Equity by Providing a Quality Education
Earlier this year, a group called Equity Matters asked the province to establish an education equity secretariat. They want this office to oversee equity officers working in Manitoba schools. Equity Matters wants to ensure that all Manitoba students are reflected in...
Why Frances Widdowson Matters
Frances Widdowson probably isn't someone most Canadians recognize. I'm here to tell you why they should. In terms of Canada's intellectual culture, Frances Widdowson matters because she is a classic and prolific academic. In a time when demagoguery easily flourishes,...
Friedman’s Legacy
As we celebrate Milton Friedman’s birthday and achievements, we must continue his legacy and keep making the case for freedom.
The Other ‘Clash of Civilisations’
In his seminal Environment Court decision, Marlborough Ridge v Marlborough District Council, Judge Jackson said “there is a distinct thread in the RMA which takes an economic approach to sustainable management of natural and physical...
Spare Us the Climate Change Hysteria
Energy starved Africans should be aghast at LIVE EARTH’s bizarre message.
Live Earth Remedy Deadly for Africans
Poor countries have more important things to worry about than climate change, like whether they will have electricity for refrigerators, lights and modern homes, hospitals, schools, offices and factories.
Social Assistance That Really Helps
The latest changes to social assistance in Manitoba emphasize work as the key to moving from welfare to independence. But does this plan recognize the real obstacles faced by the poor and those who advocate for them?
Continuing the Green Revolution
Persistent poverty and environmental degradation in developing countries, changing global climatic patterns, and the use of food crops to produce biofuels, all pose new and unprecedented risks and opportunities for global agriculture in the years ahead. Agricultural...
Ask Albania
For a lesson in pro-growth tax policy, may we suggest gazing east, to Albania.
Hot Air and C02
The Prime Minister capitulates to politically correct climate theory.
We’re all paying a terrible price for outrageously unaffordable housing – and it’s entirely unnecessary
“Relative to incomes, housing in major New Zealand cities is now some of the most expensive in the world,” Don Brash, chairman of the Centre for Resource Management Studies, told the Parliamentary select committee looking into the affordability of housing today. “And...