As we celebrate Milton Friedman’s birthday and achievements, we must continue his legacy and keep making the case for freedom.
Year: 2007
Live Earth Remedy Deadly for Africans
Poor countries have more important things to worry about than climate change, like whether they will have electricity for refrigerators, lights and modern homes, hospitals, schools, offices and factories.
The Other ‘Clash of Civilisations’
In his seminal Environment Court decision, Marlborough Ridge v Marlborough District Council, Judge Jackson said “there is a distinct thread in the RMA which takes an economic approach to sustainable management of natural and physical...
Spare Us the Climate Change Hysteria
Energy starved Africans should be aghast at LIVE EARTH’s bizarre message.
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Raw-Milk Prohibition Reveals Policy Backwardness
Prohibitionists Dig In Heels for Supply Management, Ignore U.S. Success There is a legal way to consume raw milk in Canada: buy it in the United States and bring it home. Of the 13 states bordering Canada, 12 have legal raw milk. More than 40 have it legal in some...
The Pawlowski Decision
In the Alberta Health Services v. Artur Pawlowski and Dawid Pawlowski decision last September, a Court of Queen’s Bench justice found the two brothers in contempt of court. The Pawlowski brothers openly challenged health ordinances and court orders and did not deny...
A Great, Cheap Place to Live
Regina — identified in a new study as one of the cheapest places in the world to own a home — may be headed for a boom in the near future, should housing prices continue to soar in other Canadian cities, predicts a senior fellow at the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre...
Parkinson’s Flaw
There are many speculations as to why Tom Parkinson is no longer CEO of Ontario’s power utility Hydro One, here’s what really happened.
Canada Scores First in International Housing Affordability Study
In Demographia’s third annual survey of housing affordability, the City of Regina, Saskatchewan, scored the best in the world. Canada’s other cities covered a wide range, from “affordable” to “severely unaffordable.”
3rd Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
The 3rd Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey expands coverage to 159 major markets in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
We’re One CHEAP City
For the second year in a row, Winnipeg was ranked among the most affordable places to live in an international study. Regina is considered the most affordable city in Canada, with Winnipeg and Quebec City tied in second place.
An Economic Suicide Pact for Europe and the US
Europeans have worked themselves into such a lather over “climate chaos” that they’ve set themselves up for a head-on collision between eco-ideology and economic reality.
Free Our Wheat Farmers
Will the Harper government succeed in stripping the Wheat Board of its obsolete monopoly powers?
$4B Boom Just Tip of Iceberg
Manitoba is in the middle of a $4-billion construction boom and that is likely only the tip of the iceberg. Another $6 billion has been committed to upgrading roads and bridges in the city and across the province over the next 10 years and Manitoba Hydro has said it...
Let’s Deregulate Taxis
The economics of Winnnipeg’s taxicab industry have been severely distorted by barriers to entry and price controls. American cities like Indianapolis and countries like Sweden and Ireland have solved similar problems by deregulating.