Manitoba’s Public Insurance’s arbitrary policy to destroy cheap used cars made before 1995 ostensibly to protect the environment will hurt the environment and make it more difficult for the unemployed poor to find jobs.
Year: 2010
Government Pressured To Put Health Care Higher On Agenda
The calls for a nationwide discussion on the future of health care and various proposals on how to reform the system are piling up this week.
Remedial Education: ‘Edu-babble’ and ‘child-centred learning’ are what ail schools, teacher says
The most significant hurdle facing students, Mr. Zwaagstra argues, is a pervasive anti-knowledge bias that resists the teaching of specific, common content. The “child-centred learning” philosophy expects teachers to tailor instruction to the individual needs of each student while making the experience “fun,” instead of teaching facts–the building blocks he believes should be in place before higher-level concepts can be taught.
Climate Change CO2 Caravan Continues At Cancun, Commercially: You Must Pay For Your Sins
The Cancun Climate Conference and most national policies confirm equalization of wealth as the real objective. Everything is based on falsified evidence and completely unnecessary. If a private citizen practiced such deception it would constitute fraud. Despite evidence of manipulated data, corrupted science, false claims, and failed predictions the nonsense continues.
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
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Do You Believe in Magic … Climate Numbers?: Should temperatures pulled out of a hat be the basis for energy and economic policies?
Should temperatures pulled out of a hat be the basis for energy and economic policies?
Canada Health Consumer Index 2010
The annual Canada Health Consumer Index evaluates healthcare-system performance in the ten provinces from the perspective of the consumer. For the third straight year, Ontario and British Columbia finish with the top scores in the CHCI’s overall rankings.
Insights into Public Policy – With Bill Parrish Sr.
Breakfast on the Frontier
Bureaucrats Swindle Greens In Cancun
As green negotiators in Cancun ended their two-week junket it’s clear that the bureaucrats did what bureaucrats do: they kept a ‘process’ (job-creating bureaucratic gravy train) alive while doing little or nothing about the problem they were supposed to solve.
There Will Be Fuel
The same high prices that inspired dire fear in the first place helped to resolve them. High oil and gas prices produced a wave of investment and drilling, and technological innovation has unlocked oceans of new resources. Oil and gas from ocean bottoms, the Arctic and shale rock fields are quickly replacing tired fields in places like Mexico, Alaska and the North Sea.
Federalism’s Free Lunch: Why should Alberta taxpayers have to pay for PEI to provide students with free college?
“Maxime Bernier is right: End transfer payments to the provinces. Let Ottawa give them greater room to tax their own residents, but let provincial legislatures also have to make the tough choice to increase taxes on their own citizens if the politicians want to spend more on health, education, welfare and other provincial functions Ottawa is now subsidizing.”
Ezra Levant, lawyer, journalist, and political activist
Ezra Levant was interviewed after his Lunch on the Frontier speech in Winnipeg on December 2, 2010.
GM Crops: Plant breeding is like doing surgery with a chain saw, while genetic modification is like laser surgery
Crops are now designed to reduce chemical use or survive reduced water conditions, among many other possibilities. We are on the verge of having many of our pharmaceuticals grown in the field. Increasing yields will increase supply and reduce the need to go back to marginal lands.
How Schools Fail Kids by Not Failing Them
On December 4, 2010 Michael Zwaagstra delivered his key points as to why public schools are failing to properly prepare today’s students for the real world to the attendees of the Society for Quality Education‘s (SQE) annual general meeting in downtown Toronto, mostly because, he argues, that schools refuse to fail students.