Rather than focus on increased cultural programming to improve academic performance among First Nations and other under-performing groups, schools should look to successful models where higher expectations and core competencies are emphasized.
Year: 2008
Pre-industrial CO2 Levels were About the Same as Today
Authorities told us pre-industrial atmospheric levels of CO2 were approximately 100 parts per million (ppm) lower than the present 385 ppm. They are wrong. The pre-industrial level is at least 50 ppm higher than the level put into the computer models that produce all future climate predictions.
Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts
The Canada West Foundation (CWF) has canvassed 25 leading economists from the four westernmost provinces and created a report called Taking Action on the Economy, a compendium of thoughts on the right way for the federal government to design an economic stimulus...
A Bunch of Have Beens
Lorrie Goldstein and Paul Rutherford try to answer the question, what’s equal about equalization?
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Governments Already “Stimulate” Business
Governments have spent $182 billion on corporate welfare over 12 years. That’s “stimulus” enough.
How to Help 21,000 More Manitobans with Their Housing
21,000 more low-income Manitobans could be helped if the provincial government sold the province’s residential real estate portfolio, this according to a new backgrounder and column from Daniel Klymchuk at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
Let Detroit Face The Music
A bailout would only buy time, allowing Detroit to make it to the next bailout, with government running the show in an increasingly distorted and regulated market. A bankruptcy process should install a permanent reorganization, with the companies (or whatever combination emerges) still part of a viable auto industry operating in a genuine market.
Bailing Out the Big Three
A view of bail out mania from the lighter side …
Media Release – New Frontier Centre Backgrounder Shows How 21,000 More Manitobans Could Get Affordable Housing
21,000 more low-income Manitobans could be helped if the provincial government sold the province’s residential real estate portfolio, this according to a new study from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Manitoba – Canada’s Biggest Provincial Landlord
Compared to other western provinces, Manitoba public housing ownership, at 110 per 10,000, is orders of magnitude higher – over twice the levels in Saskatchewan and British Columbia (220%), and over 3 times the Alberta level (305%).
The Case for Selling Public Housing in Manitoba
The Manitoba government should sell its residential real estate holdings to the private sector and then concentrate on providing targeted subsidies to low-income Manitobans, this according to a new backgrounder from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The report, from Frontier research associate Dan Klymchuk, shows how $25 million could be shaved off annual operating costs now paid by the provincial government, and instead redirected to those Manitobans in need of subsidized shelter. That $25 million could help subsidize 21,000 more people with their housing costs.
City Debt, Taxes Higher Than Average — Report
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy released last week a financial analysis of 79 Canadian cities. The report, which calls for greater consistency among municipal financial reporting, found St. Albert property owners paid 18 per cent more in taxes per household last year compared to 10 other prairie cities.
Go-Ahead For Urban Sprawl
The Victorian Government has all but given up on a long-standing pledge to contain Melbourne’s urban sprawl, announcing another big expansion of the metropolitan boundary for new housing. Six years after setting a “clear boundary” for the city in the Melbourne 2030 policy, the Government has succumbed to a booming population, a housing shortage and resistance to high-density development in established suburbs.