A proposal to increase the number of taxis in Winnipeg through a proposed taxi co-op.
Year: 2008
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.
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‘Side Issues’ Result in Much Higher Costs to Our Health and Social Systems
As we enter the year 2022, most Canadians will have lived their entire lives under the shibboleth that says we have the best health-care system in the world. Our beloved medicare is universal in scope, free of charge and offers equal access to all. What country could...
Touted Climate Emergency for Calgary is Deceitful and Undemocratic
Calgary has sworn in its first female mayor. A week earlier, less than 24 hours after winning the mayoral race, she gave her first post-election talk-radio interview to Ryan Jespersen, mostly involving a series of softball questions. He asked her the obligatory woke...
Why Oil Prices Will Tank
High-flying tech stocks crashed. The roaring housing market crumbled. And oil, rest assured, will follow the same path down. The longer prices stay stratospheric, the worse the eventual crash – simply because the higher the prices and bigger the profit margins, the bigger the incentive to over-produce.
An Arm And A Leg
“The overarching nonsense is the twin claim that the science of climate change is settled, and that it represents the greatest crisis facing the planet. Even more nonsensical is the assertion that economic self-mutilation might be good for us. This could soon deteriorate into all-out trade war, and/or sink beneath the deadweight of bureaucratic edict.”
A Political And Court Addiction To Speech Suppression
Every citizen has an interest and the right of citizens to try and protect or advance that interest in the public square should be respected.
Jim Crow Energy Policies
Every one would impose massive, punitive, deceptive, regressive taxes on American businesses and families – through carbon offset taxes, cap-and-trade taxes, carbon sequestration mandate taxes, and intrusive bureaucracy taxes. Every one would further hobble civil rights. Not one would make a noticeable dent in global CO2 levels or temperatures.
Top 10 Health Care Lessons From Britain
While Canadian governments maintain a system that leaves their citizens without proper access to care, in the past four years the English have introduced innovations and reforms that have achieved spectacular reductions in waiting lists.
Let’s Sell Water To The U.S.A.
Manitoba could net more than $1 billion a year by piping water from northern Manitoba and selling it the United States by diverting just 1% of the renewable fresh water flow into Hudson Bay.
Water Exports
This backgrounder explores the idea of a water pipeline from the mouth of the Nelson River in Manitoba to the fast growing Southwestern United States.
22 Countries Have Higher Doctor-Population Ratios than Canada
Twenty-four other countries increased their physician-people ratio by 10 per cent or more. In comparison, Canada’s ratio of doctors to people (2.2 per 1,000 in 2005, up from 2.1 in 1990) increased only 5 per cent. Besides Canada, only Hungary, Italy and Poland failed to increase their ratio by 10 per cent or more.
Housing Task Force Report Misses the Underlying Economics
Evaluating Saskatchewan’s 2008 Housing Affordability Task Force Report.