If our parties are serious organizations, why don’t they ask for contributions from their members and sympathizers, like Barack Obama did? His expensive campaign was in good part financed by millions of modest private donations via the Internet.
Year: 2008
Why Emissions Law Should Be Scrapped
However, the most powerful argument for repealing the Emissions Trading Act is that it was passed by a reluctant, divided and narrow majority in the dying days of Parliament in a manner that was undemocratic, failed to address the national interest, and in breach of longstanding constitutional conventions.
Now for the Real Shock Doctrine
As we are now witnessing, Klein’s disaster capitalist complex is a mythical creation, the shock doctrine of disaster capitalism an artificial construct. Disaster capitalism never got off the ground. From Russia to Canada to Europe and the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, there isn’t a country in the world that hasn’t undergone the experience of a political takeover by the left on the wave of a crisis.
Media Release – 50 European Civil Society Groups Urge Governments to Reject Siren Song on Climate Change
A new report released by a coalition of over 50 European civil society groups warns that a cap on emissions of carbon would do little to protect humanity against the threat of climate change. Instead, it would drastically increase the threat of global economic catastrophe.
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Let’s Celebrate Reaching Global Population of Eight Billion
Recently, the United Nations estimated that the population of Planet Earth had reached eight billion souls. Despite the chatter of the highly subsidized climate doomster complex this is quite an achievement - it certainly indicates that the carrying capacity of our...
China’s “Truckers’ Convoy”
Anti-lockdown protests are now taking place across China - the Chinese equivalent of our Truckers’ Convoy. The protests are a reaction to the brutal policies that literally lock people in their apartments, when even one infection is detected. As in Canada, when...
Government Investment in Private Enterprises – Report
The public policy purpose of government ownership of a commercial natural monopoly in the early stages of a jurisdiction?s economic development is to ensure that safe, reliable, cost-effective economic infrastructure services are made available to all citizens and businesses. Once the infrastructure is in place, and the original public policy purpose is presumably achieved, then citizens can and should determine whether government ownership continues to serve a continuing public purpose.
Parties United Against The Free Market
The only answer I can come up with is this: Most voters have no idea how supply management works. They don’t realize they’re paying more for their weekly groceries because of it. Big Farm, though, knows all about it.
What Saved the Bloc Quebecois in the 2008 Election: Public Money
Over the past several decades, there have been several key changes to how Canada’s federal political parties are funded. The most recent and significant changes took effect in 2004 with federal legislation (Bill C-24, passed in 2003) which banned corporate and union donations.
Media Release – What Saved the Bloc Quebecois in the 2008 Election: Public Money
Winnipeg/Calgary: The Frontier Centre today released its analysis of public financing for Canada’s federal political parties between 2000 and 2008. The backgrounder was based on Elections Canada data and also estimates for public financing as it applies to election reimbursements for the 2008 election.
Voters Need to Nix the Narcissism Already
Voter turnout in the recent federal election might have been low, but the excuses for not voting fail the test of adulthood, which is supposed to be about recognizing limits, thinking beyond the crib, and taking responsibility.
Rent Control Is the Real New York Scandal
There is a better way to address the lack of reasonably priced housing in the city. If Rep. Rangel, Gov. Paterson and all the other well-to-do New Yorkers lost their rent-controlled or rent-stabilized apartments, there would be a loud public outcry to loosen regulation and allow more new construction.
Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You . . .
Aboriginal peoples have the power within themselves to improve their standard of living through meaningful changes at the local and regional level.
The Post-Lehman World
It’s just that there’s a big difference between dreaming of some ideal regulatory regime and actually putting one into practice. Everybody says we’re about to enter a new political era, rich in global financial regulation. The herd might just be wrong once again.
Opening Up Winnipeg’s Taxi Monopoly (Proulx)
A proposal to increase the number of taxis in Winnipeg through a proposed taxi co-op.