People spend more on their house pets than on daycare.
Year: 2007
Might be a Good Entre to the Ontario PCs
The way most people in Canada and the West live – in suburbs, pejoratively called sprawl – has become the target of urban planning. Strong, even draconian, land restrictions have been introduced in a number of metropolitan areas. Toronto has been among the more...
Quebec May Ban Some Dishwashing Detergents
Quebec could restrict the sale of dishwashing detergent containing phosphates if the federal government doesn't ban the product to help control blue-green algae, Quebec Environment Minister Line Beauchamp said yesterday. Speaking after a tour of three Outaouais lakes...
Peer Review, Publication in Top Journals, Scientific Consensus, and So Forth
An academic talks about funding politics in the climate change research community.
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Military Conquest is Meaningless Without True Social Renewal
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
What Life Looks Like Outside COVID-19 Hysteria
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
Sympathy for the Devil
John Robson’s take on why the government should spend money to save money.
Privatization a Good Thing?
Sweden announced that they are selling off some government owned enterprises, should Canada be following suit?
We’ll never get to Kyoto by transit
The dream of big-city mayors that Ottawa foot the bill for mass transit is closer to reality. Trouble is, subsidies from afar won’t make a dime’s worth of difference. Other reforms will.
The Wal-Mart Revolution
Our review of Richard Vedder and Wendell Cox’s book, The Walmart Revolution.
Medical Tourism Puts Consumers First
Problems with Medicare and poor service are forcing more and more Canadians to become medical tourists. We need to bust open the monopoly to include that choice and others.
Alternatives to Smart Growth
In recent times we need to ask why Smart Growth carried the day for so long
Select Committee to consider Housing Affordability
Commerce Select Committee to hold an enquiry into Housing Affordability
Halle-Neustadt – the “Sustainable City”
A chilling look at the “sustainable city” Halle-Neustadt, is a bedroom community built between 1964 and 1990 for about 100,000 people on the outskirts of the manufacturing city of Halle, in East Germany.
Applying “Systems Intelligence” to Transport
Part A of a three part written presentation to the Annual Land Transport Summit, 2007