Regardless of any individual gain or loss for a political party, ending an annual subsidy that allows a separatist party to thrive would be a positive action to take for Canada.
Year: 2008
For Aboriginals, Life Is Better In The City – Report
The 2006 census data confirms what many people suspect, that life is often better for Aboriginals in the cities than on reserves.
The American Strategy of Rewarding Irresponsibility
As the economic watering hole dries up, the creatures that depend on it are beginning to look at one another differently. But for the greedy, the incompetent, and the outright stupid, it’s a new morning. A shot of redemption is at hand, courtesy of everybody else.
Subject to Approval
The choice of early Canadians to remain closely tied to the British Empire had a major impact on the development of property rights in this country. Although we as a society tend to see ourselves as having more in common with the United States than with the United Kingdom, our system of land ownership, more accurately called real property ownership, does not permit the same level of rights and freedoms over the land we hold as the U.S. system affords. In the United States, landowners usually hold title to the mineral resources located beneath their land; in Canada, this is never the case.
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Leon Fontaine – A Passionate Canadian Thought Leader – RIP
This past weekend, we learned of the tragic and unexpected passing of Pastor Leon Fontaine at 59 years of age. Leon was a gifted leader playing many roles both nationally and internationally. He was, with his wife Sally, the senior Pastors at Springs Church with...
Public Inquiries and Public Trust
Testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission reveals the case for government invoking the Emergencies Act is either weak or very weak. The Prime Minister was, in fact, opposed to members of his cabinet or senior public health officials meeting with protest...
Following Europe’s Lead on Climate Change
Environmentalists, journalists and politicians say tough climate legislation is a moral imperative. Global warming science is settled, the United States is out of step with other nations, America must follow Europe’s lead to prevent climate chaos. It’s great rhetoric. But which European lead should we follow? And how is it morally responsible to enact climate legislation that kills jobs and punishes families and businesses, to reduce global temperatures by perhaps 0.2 degrees?
Financial Turmoil: Market Failure or Government Failure?
Third, we have learned yet again that government regulation often does more harm than good. As the Wall Street Journal observed, the great irony is that the banks that made some of the worst mortgage investments were the most highly regulated. Bank regulators cannot possibly spot all weaknesses. More emphasis must go on caveat emptor – investors and depositors beware.
Canada’s Politicians v. Canada’s Last Healthy Industry
With falling stock markets and a possible worldwide recession, the political attacks on one of Canada’s last profitable sectors – energy – are bizarre.
Water is the Big Issue Many Politicians Ignore
You get a sense of Canada's critical water problems looking at the Athabasca Glacier in the Columbia Icefield south of Jasper, Alta. It is shrivelling, like a grape in sunlight. The glacier's retreat is just another indication that our climate is changing and getting...
Global Warming: Why Cut One 3,000th of A Degree?
Global warming is seen everywhere as one of the most important issues. From the EU to the G8, leaders trip over one another to affirm their commitment to cutting CO2 to heal the world. What they do not often acknowledge – in part because it would lose them support – is that the solutions proffered are incredibly costly and will end up doing amazingly little good, even in a century’s time. This is the truly inconvenient truth of the politics of global warming.
Good Intentions, Green Policies, and the Poor
Escalating fuel costs harm the poor disproportionately, acting as a de facto regressive tax. Thus, American families at the median income level pay 5% of each household dollar for energy costs, and families with lower incomes spend 20% of household funds on energy, while households under the poverty line see fully half of their budget spent on gas, heating, and other fuel costs.
It’s Time For Spending Control And Tax Cuts
The key to improving incentives for productive behaviour is reducing marginal tax rates. That is, the government must reduce the tax rate people and businesses face on the last dollar of income earned.
Elections Canada Clears Skeptics Group of Campaign Wrongdoing
A group of global warming skeptics has been cleared of wrongdoing following an investigation by Elections Canada into radio ads which ran in key Ontario markets during the 2006 election campaign.
Niger Innis, Congress of Racial Equality
Niger Innis is Co-Chair of the Alliance to Stop the War on the Poor and the National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, one of the oldest African-American anti-poverty groups. It was founded in 1942 as one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement in the United States. Its national Headquarters is located in New York City.