“In the world of green and liberal politics, where they practice extreme environmentalism, nothing bears examination: two lies make a truth. We now learn that Bjorn Lomborg, who was never a climate skeptic, has magically disavowed that status. As the entire mockery of human induced global warming collapses, it is a convenient conversion.”
Year: 2010
Fake Competition: Forcing telecoms to share their networks with small ISPs
“Imagine if you were the owner of the only fully equipped garage outlet in a small town and some government regulatory agency ordered you to rent your premises a few hours a day, at a predetermined tariff, to other local mechanics. A decision by the CRTC will force telecoms to give ISPs acccess to their network at the same speeds they offer their own customers.”
Natives Fear Ottawa Aiming To Convert Reserves To Private Land Ownership: Federal study of successful reserves with rent-paying businesses prompts some bands to raise alarm over resource rights
“Ottawa has quietly ordered a study of Canada’s most economically successful first nations, raising the prospect of a new approach to developing businesses on reserves while sparking fear among some native leaders that their rights to land and resources are at risk.”
Testing Still Valuable
Standardized tests are supposed to measure, in a fair and consistent way, what students have learned. But how do we know what these students have learned? The tests are supposed to measure the effectiveness of teaching strategies. We don’t know how effective the teaching in these classes was. The tests are supposed to tell the public, which pays for schools, how those schools are performing. Frontier Centre in the media, from The Windsor Star.
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Apple’s “Security” Pitch Conveniently Protects the iOS-Android Duopoly
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Ted Morton: Counterpoint — Putting Equalization on the Table
“Far from “demonizing” the concept of equalization, Alberta is simply hoping to initiate a constructive dialogue aimed at improving the program in a way that benefits provinces across Canada, not just Alberta.”
Media Release – Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index 2010
The 3rd annual Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index is out: Canada lags behind in 25th place and far behind consumer and competition friendly Holland.
Dump the (old) Alberta Agenda: It’s time for Alberta and the West to enact a more realistic agenda
Most of the Alberta Agenda ideas have never been fully costed out by their proponents.
Secretiveness Still a Defining Feature of Many Band Governments: Bands need improved transparency in order to build good governance
The Third Annual Aboriginal Governance Index provides empirical evidence that many band respondents do not feel their governments are sharing important financial data with members. FC068
Attention Whole Foods Shoppers: Stop obsessing about arugula. Your ‘sustainable’ mantra — organic, local, and slow — is no recipe for saving the world’s hungry millions.
“Though it’s certainly a good thing to be thinking about global welfare while chopping our certified organic onions, the hope that we can help others by changing our shopping and eating habits is being wildly oversold to Western consumers.”
Busybody Eurocrats and the new “Right” to Vacation: The EU’s wasteful plan to subsidize tourism ignores individual preferences
The EU recently announced a program to subsidize vacations for the old, the young and people with low incomes. This wasteful nanny-state policy uses taxes and manipulative subsidies to encourage people to spend their recreation dollars on tourism instead of other things they might like more.
Competitive Care: When Italy’s Lombardy region pitted private hospitals against public ones, the quality of care rose dramatically
“For the past 10 years, public and private hospitals in Lombardy have competed directly for patients, and in doing so have created what is considered by many to be one of Europe’s most efficient health-care systems.”
(Desperately) Looking for Arctic Warming: Global warming alarmists have chosen the wrong part of the climate cycle to head north
“The Arctic ice has been rebounding since its latest low ebb around September 2007. And despite steadily rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels…average global temperatures have been stable or declining since 1995.”
Rahim Jaffer’s Corporate Welfare Habit: Only 10% of corporate welfare gets repaid
The repayment record on corporate welfare is poor: think just 10%.