“Relative to incomes, housing in major New Zealand cities is now some of the most expensive in the world,” Don Brash, chairman of the Centre for Resource Management Studies, told the Parliamentary select committee looking into the affordability of housing today. “And...
Year: 2007
Followers or Leaders
Our leaders have long been enthusiastic promoters of New Zealand as a leader in world opinion. But they normally refer to political opinion. We may well be trend-setters in giving the vote to women, cradle to grave welfare, and even in rejecting nuclear weapons, but...
Many Cities Changing One-way Streets Back
More traffic will be coming to downtown Danville, Ill. — and that's how Danville wants it. The city of 33,000 is converting some of its longtime one-way streets back to two-way thoroughfares. City officials hope the change will make it easier for customers to reach...
Free Trade is Why Socialist Chile is Wealthy
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper lamented the rise of "repressive economics" in Latin America the other day, he cited specifically the class-warfare politics that we normally associate with deranged socialist states - such as, most flamboyantly, Venezuela....
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Energy Inquiry Shows the Problem and the Way
If a public inquiry found that hundreds of millions of dollars was being funnelled by foreign entities to undermine Canadian industry, should we conclude there is nothing wrong? Remarkably, the public inquiry’s final report into anti-Alberta energy campaigns did the...
Why Millennials Prefer DIY Investing
One-third of Canadian millennials prefer going solo when it comes to managing and investing their money. Online financial education and tools are changing the rules of the game and threatening to affect financial advisors how emails affected mailmen. A recent poll...
The Coming Tory War on Prosperity
An editorial of the Suzuki Foundation’s report ranking environmental records of countries.
A Dangerous Obsession
Some people think that there should be an income cap, a maximum amount of money a person can make at a given job. Thomas Sowell weighs in on that subject.
J. R. Shackleton, Dean, University of Westminster Business School
Margaret Thatcher and John Major in turn radically reshaped labour market regulation in Britain but, when Tony Blair and “New Labour” came into power in 1997, they left the reforms intact. Britain’s economy has been all the stronger for the effort.
Energy Diet For a Starving World?
Marlo Lewis’ reply to Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”.
CWB: Keeping Canadian Agriculture Relevant
Many farmers with limited production capacity do not realize the extent to which global trade has changed the way Canada should position itself within world markets.
Dogma, Bullies Dominate Climate debate
Nancy Greene Raine is being criticized for her views on climate change, is it this criticism really justified?
Supply Management Days Numbered: Minister
Canada’s supply managed sectors are being put on notice by trade minister David Emerson that their protectionist interests cannot continue to limit the ability of Canadian trade negotiators to win stronger concessions . . .
Changes in Energy Industry – With David Yager
Listen to David Yager speak about changing energy industry here. (54 minutes)
Private Capital on Strike in Manitoba
In 2005 Manitoba moved to last place in Canada’s private investment sweepstakes, a spot traditionally held by either New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island. FC026