What's the best way to expand a welfare state, irrationally assuming for the moment that you want to expand a welfare state? Cut taxes. Especially cut corporate taxes. You will collect less revenue every time you nick a dollar but you will have many more dollars to...
Year: 2007
The Cooling World
This cover story in the April 28th, 1975 issue of Newsweek worries about global cooling not warming.
Equalization: Deal or No Deal? Does it Matter?
An Ontario based policy expert outlines why Ontario can no longer sustain Canada’s flawed equalization system.
Martian Questions for the Premiers
Martians and earthlings should scratch their heads on evolving alien policy contraptions being clapped together by premiers.
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Celebrating Manitoba’s Fisher River First Nation
Indigenous communities in Manitoba face some of the greatest obstacles. Over the years, when the UN Human Development Index was applied to First Nation communities across Canada, Manitoba First Nations often ranked lowest. So, it’s important to highlight some of the...
UK-Canada Nuclear Fusion Project Could Generate Jobs, Unite Climate Alarmists and Skeptics
For a long time, nuclear fusion has been a sci-fi fantasy; the holy grail of energy production that involves the combination of multiple atomic nuclei to generate energy. It’s the same process used by the sun to create energy, and the opposite of nuclear fission,...
Public Auto Insurance No Bargain, New Study Shows
Price differences between public and private automobile insurance in different Canadian provinces have been grossly exaggerated, concludes a new study released today. Written by author and consultant Mark Milke, Monopoly Insurance:Unfair at Any Price deplores the fact that provincially owned agencies in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have misled the public about their prices compared to private insurers, and explains how the deception occurred.
Cheaper Government Auto Insurance?
When the Consumers’ Association and publicly owned auto insurance monopolies tell the public that model delivers lower premiums, they are spreading misinformation. Private companies do offer competitive rates.
Monopoly Insurance: Unfair at Any Price
Government car insurance monopolies boast that they’re giving consumers a better deal, but for the most part such claims are untrue.
Why You Should Vote for Choice in Marketing Barley
Early in 2007, the federal Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food held a referendum among barley farmers that asked them to make one of three choices about their preference for the future marketing of the crop. This opinion piece appeared in the ballot package in support of one of those choices.
Show Me the Money CWB – PowerPoint
PowerPoints from From Breakfast on the Frontier with Market Analyst John De Pape, February 1, 2007
If Climate Change is Real, Tell Us What to do About it
There has been much debate over whether climate change is real or not. Seems like people are just talking in circles rather than putting a firm action plan into placc.
A Climate of Bunk and Hysteria
Activists untrained in the field are as entitled as anyone to express their opinions about climate science, but we need to take what they say with a rather large grain of salt.
Fraser Institute Praises NDP & Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ranked as having the third-best climate for investment, trailing only Alberta and British Columbia in the conservative Fraser Institute think-tank released its 2007 report on the investment climate of Canadian provinces.
The Best Policy On Subsidies Is Simply To Ditch Them
Only in the government does it make sense to fix one bad idea —the subsidising of fossil-fuel energy — by giving even larger subsidies to less efficient forms of energy such as ethanol and wind power.