As the entry price into the monopoly increases the number of dairy farms is collapsing. FC034
Year: 2007
A Tale of Two Telcos
It’s a perfect real life laboratory. Take two similar crown corporations Saskatchewan’s SaskTel and Manitoba’s MTS in 1996 and convert one into an shareholder-owned company. What happened?
A Window on Two Policy Models
Mad scientists could not have designed it if they tried. Over the past decade, telecommunications privatization has played out in a continent-sized laboratory. In the middle of North America, two almost identical companies in the almost identical markets of Manitoba...
Telecommunications Privatization, Services, and Provincial Well-being
Ownership models have little effect on service levels in the competitive telecommunications industry, but they do affect the ability to invest and expand.
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Time to Stop Lockdowns, Vaccine Mandates and Crushing Our Charter of Rights
If one was to discuss the state of the world’s democracies in September of 2019, it would look entirely different than it does today in 2022. Three years ago, Canadians generally thought that: our democracy was relatively strong and citizens would defend their...
Propaganda Rules the World
One of the greatest books that explain how the world works is Propaganda by Edward Bernays. The man dubbed “the father of public relations” applied the psychological ideas of his uncle Sigmund Freud upon the masses, triggering their basic motivations to the benefit of...
Top Doc Labels NDP’s Layton a Hypocrite
Sought treatment at private clinic
Nigeria – How Nationalization Fails
A cautionary tale of how government ownership and monopoly wreaks havoc with vital infrastructure in Nigeria
Confessions of a Global Warming Heretic
Television and newspapers are filled with warnings about the dire consequences of global warming. For instance, in each of two recent consecutive issues of the Leader-Post (June 5 and 6), there were three stories related to this subject. We are told that, over the...
Who Knows How to Make a Carbon-Neutral Pencil?
Alert readers may have noticed an apparent contradiction in my last two columns on ‘carbon-footprints’. The first column opened with: “Government has floated a proposal that all buildings be assessed for their carbon footprint before issuing a building consent. This...
Natives Line Up for Their Annual $5 Payment
Government officials hailed the historical significance of urban treaty payments at The Forks Monday morning, but many of the hundreds of attendees who lined up in a white tent near the Red River said they were there to collect their $5 annual payment to buy food or...
The Good News
Smart Growth has always been a policy in search of justification. It started out as a means of pricing blacks and Hispanics out of white enclaves in the US. It worked then, and still does, but proved “inappropriate”. Then Smart Growthwould “save” productive rural land...
Irresistible Forces Meet an Immovable Object?
Government has floated a proposal that all buildings be assessed for their carbon footprint before issuing a building consent. This is yet another half-baked scheme which will make housing even less affordable without delivering any measurable benefit. No one knows...
Margarine Wars Could Escalate with Western Embargo
Our refusal to allow coloured spread is a violation of trade obligations
Good Ideas Drowning in Regulation
Politicians love to crow about regulations they enact. They take out advertisements bragging about how tough they are on industries and how they are protecting us. Protecting us? From innovation, productivity, competitiveness, investment, more money in our pockets, a longer life and a cleaner environment? They have got to be kidding.