How banning grey water septic fields produced more raw sewage spills in cottage country.
Year: 2007
Paying for the Wheat Board
The Canadian Wheat Board model has inadvertently cancelled vast opportunities in the higher end, value added part of the agriculture sector.
A Sickly Health Result
It’s no surprise that a new study of halfa-dozen rich countries’ health systems shows the U.S. leading the pack on costs, but dead last on results. It has been the same story for three years running in a series of studies by the Cumberland Fund. And plenty of other...
Rubble to Riches
Toronto can eliminate its deficit by selling off unneeded city assets, such as highways and parking garages. Chicago is showing the way.
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To Infinity and Beyond
Space exploration is fraught with a wide variety of hazards; solar storms could irradiate astronauts, collisions with small, unseen objects could cause instant death, and the acts of both leaving Earth and coming back are high risk maneuvers that involve high speeds...
Global Minimum Tax Is Cartel Scam with Loopholes
Rhetoric is one thing; reality is another. As is becoming increasingly clear, the OECD’s July 1 proposal for a 15 per cent global minimum for corporate taxation is nothing of the sort. Although the awaited initiative slated for 2023 will not and cannot achieve a level...
Climate Alarmist Quits British Government
Sir Nicholas Stern, author of a controversial report on the effect of global warming on the global economy, resigned his position as second permanent secretary in the British treasury department after the government essentially ignored his call for drastic action.
Natives Don’t Want Self-Rule Under Existing System
Manitoba’s “Framework” for transferring power from Ottawa to First Nations has met with an ignominious and well-deserved collapse. The people don’t trust the process.
Infusion Clinics Benefit Patients
Many Canadian cities now house “infusion clinics,” where individuals can bypass bureaucrats and purchase promising IV treatments out of their own pockets.
MPI Gives Drivers Better Deal
The Chair of Manitoba Public Insurance disputes a Frontier study on the value of government car insurance.
Global Warming Ethics, Pork and Profits
The ink has barely dried on its new code of conduct, and already Congress is redefining ethics and pork to fit a global warming agenda. As Will Rogers observed, “with Congress, every time they make a joke, it’s a law. And every time they make a law, it’s a joke.”...
John De Pape, Market and Business Consultant
The Canadian Wheat Board maintains that its monopoly on marketing barley adds value to the crop. The author of the famous Sparks barley study begs to differ.
Manitoba’s Equalization Shell Game
It is by challenging one of Canada’s defining programs, however, one from which Manitoba is a primary beneficiary, that the contrariness of the FCPP is most remarkable.
Somewhere, Milton Is Smiling
Utahns win a hard-fought victory for school choice.
Using the Environment to Save the Market
Conservatives’ efforts to convince Canadians they’re serious about global warming continue, with results that are best described as pyrrhic. Media reports on each new Tory environmental initiative — which is to say each old Liberal environmental initiative — are...