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Year: 2007
Why Water is Becoming the New Oil
It appears that water is about to become commoditized and be traded as a futures contract along with pork bellies, oranges or lumber. This will make water a geopolitical issue. If Great Lakes water is shipped to irrigate the U.S. Midwest, will Canada get half its value?
Time to Ditch Kyoto, Experts Urge
It is time for a radical rethink on climate change, says a report in the journal Nature this week. Echoing sentiments long associated with politicians such as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President George Bush, the report says it is time to ditch...
The Madness of Feeding this Ravenous NHS
Dramatically higher health funding in Britain’s public health monopoly results in higher costs not more service.
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Policy Restrictions have Caused the Housing Crisis
The choice we face is clear: a modest expansion of greenfield development or greater housing poverty For 18 years, I have been monitoring international housing affordability, as author or co-author of the Demographia Housing Affordability series. The latest...
Leaders on the Frontier | So Much More We Can Be with the Hon. Grant Devine, Premier of Saskatchewan 1982-1991
The April 1982 Saskatchewan election proved to be a major turning point in the province's history. Over its nine years in office, the Devine government commenced and completed numerous policy initiatives in spite of considerable challenges including two recessions. ...
The Think-Tanks that Miss the Target
Brussels badly needs a far more open debate about ideas but it lacks the vibrant ideas infrastructure found in the United States.
China Bars Corn Ethanol Due to High Food Costs
China has just banned further expansion of its corn ethanol industry, after a radical 43-percent increase in pork prices over the past year. Xu Dingming of the Chinese National Energy Leading Group told a recent seminar that “Food-based ethanol fuel will not be the...
A Reserve in Turmoil
A visit to a remote First Nation presents a microcosm of Canada’s severely dysfunctional aboriginal policy, which revolves around subsidizing people to languish on isolated reserves where there is no economy.
Calvin Helin, Aboriginal Entrepreneur and Author of Dances with Dependency
Frontier’s conversation with the author of “Dances With Dependecy”, Calvin Helin
Board Costs Farmers $1 a Bushel: Report
A new report analyzing the value that the Canadian Wheat Board insists it delivers to Prairie farmers offers “instant absolute proof” to the contrary, says its author. Far from maximizing returns back to producers, the board is actually leaving an “astounding” amount...
Cash-addicted Atlantic premiers want equalization even if their provs become “haves”
Recently Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams and Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald have been complaining that the federal government has broken the Atlantic accord on equalization payments. The federal Conservatives' Atlantic MPs have been on the verge of a caucus...
First Nation Electoral Corruption Common
The old regime that retains a majority on council is once again showing the people that they have absolute power and that no one should dare challenge it. The situation is especially stressful for appeal committee members and their families. They know that the wrong decision could mean the end of their careers and very intimidated lives if they remain on the reserve.
Top Doc Labels NDP’s Layton a Hypocrite
Sought treatment at private clinic
CWB Price Premium Myth
Competition would dramatically raise the prices farmers are currently receiving thereby enabling them to effectively compete in the global marketplace.