In other words, environmentalism is causing global warming. As ecoadvocates have won tighter clean-air regulations, their efforts have been rewarded with brighter days (a good thing), but also warmer temperatures.
Year: 2008
Are You Really Green?
When Sesame Street character Kermit the Frog croaked, “It’s not easy being green”, it was prophetic. Claiming you are green because you drive a Prius or because you recycle faithfully may win you points at the greener-than-thou cocktail parties, but do they really help the environment and humanity?
Welfare Reform
Firstly, the government has an absolutely crucial role to play in helping those who can’t provide for themselves. However, we have to be smart about how we help them. We have learnt that just giving money without any expectations creates a cycle of dependency that leaves many families mired in poverty and abuse, unable to take control of their lives.
Education Inflation in Canada
Alberta spent the most per student, followed closely by Manitoba. However, Alberta had the least expensive education system when expenditures are measured as a percent of its economy. The most expensive system by that measure is New Brunswick, followed closely by Manitoba’s.
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Trade with Mercosur: Opportunities for Canada
In November 2018, Canada and Mercosur opened negotiations for a free trade agreement. The Mercosur, composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (Venezuela is a suspended member from 2016), represents a bloc representing a GDP of over $3 trillion and a...
San Francisco to Canada: Hate Motivated Crimes—Thinking Globally and Acting Locally
San Francisco, by all accounts a liberal city of diverse communities, is in the grips of what by many is seen as a spree of racist attacks against its Black and Asian residents. According to some reports, anti-Asian crimes have more than doubled while hate crimes...
PM’s Plan to Beat Inflation
Outlining in Perth today a five-point plan to fight inflation, the Prime Minister will set a new target for the budget surplus of 1.5per cent of the nation’s gross domestic product. These measures would have the potential to take pressure off home interest rates by slowing the surging pace of consumer and business spending that has the Reserve Bank worried.
Americans Vote on Taxes with Their Feet
In a fascinating new book, Rich States, Poor States, U.S. supply-side economists Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore document a remarkable hypothesis – that high tax rates redistribute people, not incomes.
Canada’s Health-Care System Comes in 30th: Study
Well, it’s good to know that in total points we’re ahead of Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Latvia. It means Canada beat most former Soviet bloc countries — all, really, except Estonia and the Czech Republic — in offering people medicine with a human face.
Winnipeg’s Housing Affordability Ranking Drops 20 Places
Winnipeg has dropped 20 notches in an international ranking of the world's most affordable housing markets, thanks in part to its strong economic performance in recent years, according to a new study released Monday. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy's fourth...
Sick Swedish Kids Wait for Care, Spurring Parents to Go Private
While Swedish hospitals rank among the best in the world, the slow pace of care has led many wealthy residents to opt out of the government-funded medical system. That’s creating tensions in a society where cradle-to-grave welfare programs have traditionally provided equal access to care for everyone.
Study Really Hits Home
Keeping company with the likes of Los Angeles, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Sydney, Australia, Kelowna has shown up on a list of “severely unaffordable” housing markets. “This year, we expanded our survey to include more Canadian cities, so Kelowna debuted as the...
Saskatoon Pricey Pick
Saskatoon’s ranking in an annual survey of affordable places to live across the globe has tanked. The Fourth Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey, which is publicly released today, ranked 227 cities in Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Britain and...
Canadian Cities Lead World Housing Affordability
Dramatic differences exist amongst affordability levels in Canadian cities. The median house in Thunder Bay costs 1.8 years’ income, whereas residents of Kelowna require 8.5 years’ income. FC046
13 Canadian Cities Among Most Affordable Housing Markets in World
A major new study released today by Demographia and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy ranks Thunder Bay, ON, Saguenay, QC, Saint John, NB and St. John’s, NL, as among the most affordable housing markets in the world.