Not so long ago, you could feel complacent - smug even - about your little greenish exertions. You traded your SUV for a smaller set of wheels. You bought compact florescent bulbs and dragged the old push mower out of storage. You approved of ethanol and other...
Year: 2007
Hydro-Québec is Worth $130B — So Sell It!
A Quebec commentator sketches out how selling Hydro Quebec would eliminate that province’s debt and allow the province to slash income taxes by 33%.
Health Agency Accused of Squandering Millions
An aboriginal health-care agency spent more than $6.4 million in federal funds on expensive trips to Hawaii, New Zealand, Norway and Israel, as well as lavish spa pedicures, facials and massages, a source inside Health Canada said Friday. The details of how...
The Mulroney Factor
In general, Mulroney pushed an often reluctant Canadian public toward smaller government, freer enterprise, and a reduced public sector.
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Trust is the Foundation of Authority
The heartbreaking death of Nathanael Spitzer, the cancer-stricken boy from Ponoka, exposed a most callous streak in Alberta’s medical bureaucracy. There is no forgiving how Alberta Health Services appallingly used a child’s death to promote yet more COVID-19 fear. ...
Apple’s “Security” Pitch Conveniently Protects the iOS-Android Duopoly
In October, Apple Inc. warned that draft rules from the European Union that would require the technology company to open up its mobile operating system to third-party apps would pose a security risk to its users. Expanding on comments already made by CEO Tim Cook, a...
Death Threats for Man-made-global-warming-doesn’t-exist Scientist
Warning: Debating global warming from science rather than politics could be a challenge to your health. In fact death threats come in fives to scientists who write that global warming is not man-made. Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball, who has been questioning...
Climate Change, and the Policy Dilemma
New Zealand has a long history of taking leading edge positions on public policy issues, and has a proud tradition of leading political and social change. More recently, especially during the term of the fourth Labour Government, New Zealand was a world leader in...
Comments on the draft of “Powering Our Future”
Introduction This is only a brief commentary as it would take many days to work through the strategy and comment comprehensivly on it. I have therefore concentrated on what I believe to be the major shortcoming in the strategy and then on various aspects on which I...
Have-not Premier Buys Must-have Votes
The federal government’s 10 figure cheque hadn’t even greased his palm before Quebec Premier Jean Charest cashed it for campaign credit. But by turning Quebec’s freshly minted equalization billions into election-eve tax-cut promises, Mr. Charest has reduced a federal...
Climate Change and its impact on the Investment Climate in New Zealand
First, I should briefly state my position on the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Climate change is natural and has been going on since the earth was first formed. Rapid change in climate represents a genuine threat along with pandemics, nuclear war, tsunamis...
Rodney’s Ravings – A Response and Expansion
Rodney Dickens, writes the “Rodney’s Ravings” newsletter, one of which was reprinted in the Mangawhai Memo of 22nd February. Rodney is a highly competent analyst and his “Ravings” provide useful commentaries which are highly valued by those of us who consume such data...
An Obituary for a Man – and for Times Past
Bryan Southcombe died on 7th March, aged 69, and my wife and I attended his funeral and the après funeral on March 14th. While much of the day focused on personal memories I found myself pondering the way the world had changed during the expansive and remarkable “Life...
Pleased to be Coming Home
Regina was named “most affordable place to live in Canada,” according to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
It’s Getting Better All the Time
American economist Indur Goklany has collected in one volume the long-term trends in the most significant indicators of human and environmental well-being.