“The worst thing you could do in the educational system is not have a balanced approach. That’s our job as educators: to make our kids thinkers.”
Year: 2008
Profiling Tenants and Landlords for More Efficient Rental Markets
What do eBay and renting a house have in common?
Gaddafi ‘to hand out oil money’
“The money that we put in the education budget, I say let the Libyans take it,” Col Gaddafi said in a 100-minute televised speech to the General People’s Congress, Libya’s equivalent of a parliament.
“Put it in your pockets and teach your kids as you wish, you take responsibility.”
‘Blue Gold’ Worth $65B Annually
Less than 1% of the world’s water exists in the form of accessible fresh water. Of that, Canada has 20% of the total supply.
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International Corporate Tax-Rate Fixing Will Bind Canada, Limit Choices and Harm Growth
The finance ministers of over 130 nations and territories have arrived at a tentative agreement that will create a tax floor—a minimum corporate tax rate of a proposed 15 per cent. Its proponents, including Ottawa, sadly, claim it will create a “level playing field”...
Ontario Vaccine Mandate Does not Address Concerns of Human Safety
Starting September 7th, 2021, the Ontario government required all workers in high-risk settings to either take the COVID-19 vaccine, provide a medical reason for refusing vaccination or undergo regular testing and education. This includes workers in healthcare,...
Put Health Care Back on Ottawa’s Agenda
Just like Tyson’s haunting hymn, Canadian-style “medicare” has gone on to become part of our national heritage. But unlike music that is remastered, remixed and re-recorded, our health care system has not moved ahead with the times. Until now.
Computer Use May Not Help Students
Filling classrooms with computers does not seem to be making students any smarter and may actually be harming the education of younger children, a new report suggests.
Forget Global Warming: Welcome to the New Ice Age
The ice is back. Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.
Frontier Centre Releases Report on the Use and Misuse of Information Technology in Schools
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released Computers in the Classroom: Technology Overboard?, a background report on the use and misuse of technology in classrooms. Written by Michael Zwaagstra, a high school social studies teacher in Manitoba, the report...
Computers in the Classroom
Adjusting for household income, there is no evidence that greater access to computers at school has a positive correlation with academic achievement.
Too Many Computers in Schools?
Provincial education departments are placing too much emphasis on technology in the classroom.
The Castonguay Report Shows the Way Forward for Healthcare in Quebec
This report defines some concrete steps the Quebec government can take to rise to the challenge. All Canadians interested in the future of our healthcare system should watch carefully to see what components are implemented, and how they fare. The Castonguay report liberates the debate from the orthodoxy of the Canada Health Act and suggests evidence-based changes that have been proven elsewhere. If health ministers elsewhere pay attention, Claude Castonguay may be remembered not only as a father of but also as one of its rescuers.
Its No Accident that What Happens at Yellow Quill . . . Happens
Most people have so damned little that anyone who appears to be doing even a little better is immediately suspect.
Medicare Program Fails to Measure up to European Model
What we found by including Canada into our well-established European ranking of health-care systems was that Canada cannot compete. Canada took the 23rd place out of 30, actually doing well only in the category of treatment outcomes.