A secret school that was run for almost 30 years by parents disgruntled by the state education system has been discovered in the north German city of Bremen. Several hundred children are believed to have passed through the unregistered alternative primary school, and...
Year: 2007
A Fresh Promise to Limit Spending
On Dec. 19, 2005, Stephen Harper spoke to the Quebec City Chamber of Commerce. The media called the speech his "Quebec platform," and it contained some flattering words about Canada being founded there. Its real significance, however, is that for the first time...
Union Dues: The European Experience – PowerPoint
PowerPoint slides from the Lunch on the Frontier presenation by Swedish human rights lawyer Jan Södergren, October 2, 2007.
English ‘Pull Own Teeth’ as Dental Service Decays
People resort to drastic measures in the face of “free” but failing government-provided dental care.
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Demand Fairness from Ottawa and Edmonton
A few weeks ago, Albertans voted to reduce the inequities in the federal equalization program. The deficit between the dollars that leave to and come back from Ottawa has recently been as high as $27 billion in one year. During times of crisis, it feels like salt in...
Inflation: They Win, You Lose: Politicos, Cronies Fleece Canadians with Monetary Expansion
One of the most widespread economic myths is that inflation—the reduced purchasing power of a currency—is a win for a nation, a sign of a booming economy. For the privileged classes in government and with initial access to monetary expansion, it is a win. For everyone...
Native Writer Slams ‘Indian industry’
The best way to kill a man is to pay him for doing nothing.
Canada Lags Behind G7 Howe Report Says
Alberta shines in study of capital spent on upgrades
A Seinfeld Election
Manitoba’s 2007 election is skating around the province’s key challenge, it is an election about nothing.
Fend for Yourselves, Aboriginals Told
Author says natives must overcome reliance on government support
Unbiased Hearings Will Benefit Science on Climate Change
The crux of the scientific argument in support of the theory of man-made global warming is that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are at all-time highs. But they’re not. And the data that says they are has been faked. That means we’re in the throes of the greatest scientific scandal in Canadian history.
Does Auckland have a Death Wish?
The Grinding Costs of Kyoto A group of us working on a paper will attempt to assess the present costs of our Kyoto commitments and from that work out what New Zealanders are being asked to accept as the “cost of carbon”. Most people talk of carbon costs of $5 – $40...
Andrea Mandel-Campbell, author of Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson
Canada’s natural advantages as a trading nation are hampered by a series of protectionist regulations that divert attention and energy from the wealth creation possible from an expansion of its share of international commerce.
The Sin of CO2
In a couple of hundred years, historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the 10th century as the Christian millennium approached. Then, as now, the doomsters identified human...
Our Green Dilettantes
No politician is willing to let Manitoba Hydro achieve its full value as an economic driver. How long will other provinces foot the bill for subsidized prices that turn the province into a fiscal beggar?