Ending political divisions on reserves and moving remote reserves closer to urban centres would help reduce native crime rates in cities.
Year: 2008
Lonely Voice Of Dissent Declared Valid
There is something odd about the ferocious amount of energy expended suppressing any dissent from orthodoxy on climate change. So, if their case is so good, why try so fervently to extinguish other points of view? There is a disturbingly religious zeal in the attempts to silence critics and portray them as the moral equivalent of holocaust deniers.
Council Votes 7-4 to Expropriate Land
“The fair determination of any private transaction should and can only be characterized by two fundamental principles – the first that the transaction should be voluntary, and secondly that the price is between the maximum that the buyer will pay for it and the minimum that the buyer will accept. >”This is not fair. There’s nothing fair about this transaction. Some may consider this extreme, but I look to this as theft.”
Absolute Princes and the Alberta Human Rights Commission
Another Human Rights Commission has refused to proceed with complaints against a media outlet; such commissions should be stripped of the ability to even investigate opinions in the first place.
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Computer Models, Like “Selfies,” are not Reality
In a recent article about climate change, Seth Borenstein, a science writer with the Associated Press, gave us a master class on how to sell the results of a computer model as if it represents reality. In the Borenstein world, a group of scientists can take a...
Air Canada Needs Travellers, Not Bailouts
A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, the only thing keeping Air Canada alive is the federal-government bailouts. They are delaying the inevitable and sensible way out: cutting travel restrictions, encouraging tourism by ensuring effective containment and...
Tax Cut Better Than a Pay Raise for Poor
A report by a Prairie-based accountant and community activist claims that tax cuts help poor people better than raising the minimum wage. David Pankratz's study for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy says that employees have to pay more taxes when the minimum wage...
Our Skyrocketing Living Standards
There has been an explosion in living standards in the United States and Canada, in most of Europe, in Japan, and in other places around the world that has brought the richest one billion people to what our counterparts 50 years ago would have considered the life of the rich.
It’s Unanimous: Toronto’s Megacity is a Flop
The Ontario government’s forced merger of Toronto on Jan. 1, 1998, inspired the Quebec government’s forced merger of Montreal four years later. Mega-Toronto served as a model, a prototype, a muse. So, as it marks its 10th anniversary, it’s useful to see how the...
Allowing Too Many Rights Ends Up Making a Wrong
It was one of those rare, particularly sunny days in Vancouver in September when, addressing an audience at the University of British Columbia, I suggested that official multiculturalism and its partner in crime, moral relativism, were leading to the demise of Western...
Is Manitoba’s Green Fading?
Despite its reputation as a national leader in environmental initiatives, some find fault with Manitoba’s green practices. “We are green… But there’s smart green, and there’s politically fashionable green,” said Peter Holle, president of the Frontier Centre for Public...
Why Tax Exemptions Trump Minimum Wage Hikes
Raising the tax free exemptions by $6,000 would be like raising the $9.18 with none of the usual side effects.
Calling All Cars
More Taxis Mean Safer Streets, Less Traffic And Less Pollution. So Why Do Cities Refuse To Put More Cabs On The Road?
Green Trainwrecks of Manitoba
PowerPoint Slides from speech on Manitoba’s environmental policy to St. Boniface Rotary Club, January 8th, 2008 by Peter Holle. (27 Slides)
Tax Cuts Favoured Over Minimum Wage Hikes
In the war on poverty, tax cuts rather than a higher minimum wage give the working poor a hand up, concludes a new report for a Prairie-based think tank. Lifting Manitobans who are stuck at the bottom of the income ladder can best be done by raising the provincial tax...