Lengthy waits, failure to adapt cause morbidity and mortality.
Year: 2008
Province Rethinking Nitrogen Removal
The Doer government wants to take a second look at whether removing nitrogen from Winnipeg’s waste water is worth the huge cost. The move is an about-face for the province, which has steadfastly maintained nitrogen should be removed from waste water along with phosphorus and ammonia. The review comes as many in the scientific community say nitrogen removal is costly and will have little impact on reducing pollution in Lake Winnipeg, where Winnipeg’s waste-water pollution eventually ends up via the Red River.
Affordable Housing No Accident In Houston
Houston’s great strength has been its ability to stop political and commercial elites from capturing control and denying Houstonians the ability to make their own decisions about how and where they wish to live and work. It is indeed “the people’s city.”
Medicare Takes A Back Seat
Canadians need to stop kidding themselves that they live in a country with one-tier medicare, where taxpayers foot the bill for each other and everyone gets looked after eventually, Walberg adds. The reality is more “murky, very murky” and has given rise in the last five years to a number of private clinics that bill provincial insurance plans for “medically necessary” care and bill patients for extras.
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Raw-Milk Prohibition Reveals Policy Backwardness
Prohibitionists Dig In Heels for Supply Management, Ignore U.S. Success There is a legal way to consume raw milk in Canada: buy it in the United States and bring it home. Of the 13 states bordering Canada, 12 have legal raw milk. More than 40 have it legal in some...
The Pawlowski Decision
In the Alberta Health Services v. Artur Pawlowski and Dawid Pawlowski decision last September, a Court of Queen’s Bench justice found the two brothers in contempt of court. The Pawlowski brothers openly challenged health ordinances and court orders and did not deny...
Governance Index A Positive Move For First Nations
Several years ago, as First Nations moved toward self-government, the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy developed the idea of polling residents on reserves to obtain a more accurate picture regarding the way in which each community was governed: its elections, administration, human rights, transparency, services and economy.
Maori Provide Lesson For Canadian Aboriginals
While Martin was delivering his plea to continue along this tearful trail of failure, Joseph Quesnel, a Quebec Métis, wrote a useful study published by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a growing and imaginative think-tank headquartered in Winnipeg.
War And Taxes
Death and taxes — more specifically, war and taxes — are often linked. The first recorded tax began six thousand years ago on a fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (now part of modern Iraq). Inscriptions on clay stones excavated at Lagash revealed not only the existence of a tax but why: to pay for a ferocious war.
Politically Risky Business
When the business of politics and the politics of business collide, strange things can happen. Case in point: the former NDP provincial government’s policy that Saskatchewanians should pay the lowest “bundle” of utility rates in Canada.
A New Approach to Alberta’s Minimum Wage
Author David Pankratz summarizes his findings as follows: “Our comparison makes it abundantly clear that we can best express the sincerity of our intentions to help the poor by expanding the value of their basic exemption from income taxes . . .
In fact, the numbers show that increased exemptions work spectacularly better than minimum wages or tax credits in meeting the goal of improved incomes.”
An Alberta Mini-Policy Blueprint
The Alberta government should break up traditional agencies, departments and health authorities into innovative business units.
Expand New Audit Clause
A new clause for First Nation communities will not generate paperwork, but will allow First Nation leadership to be accountable to their members and to the public.
Frontier Centre Backgrounder Calls for Higher Graduate Education Standards for Teachers and School Administrators
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released a background report calling into question the quality standards of graduate education for school teachers and school administrators.
Questionable Graduate Programs For Teachers And Administrators
Recent reports written by Arthur Levine, the former president of Teachers College Columbia University in New York City, called into question the quality of most graduate programs for school teachers and administrators in the United States. While the situation does not appear to be as bleak in Manitoba, there are signs that the University of Manitoba is making some of the same mistakes outlined in the Levine report.