Advocates of greater subsidies for recycling should provide hard facts on why it is the best way to lower waste management impacts in each case.
Year: 2010
Grades Should Reflect Achievement: Part 8 in an ongoing excerpt series on education from the Frontier Centre
In an attempt to get away from “unfair” grading, too many teachers are now forced to engage in complex calculations that are no improvement on more straightforward marking.
As traffic congestion grows, are peak-hour fees the only answer?: Teleworking and public transit may be an easier pill to swallow for Canadian taxpayers
Donovan’s report details the Swedish experience. Stockholm first experimented with accurate transport pricing in 2006, after which it held a referendum on implementation: 53 per cent approved. Peak traffic volumes in Stockholm declined by about 25 per cent.
Tribal Sovereignty and The Independent Republic of Lakota
Russell Means speaks on Anti-War Radio about the Lakota withdrawing from from their treaties with the United States. September 10, 2010. (33 minutes) Listen here.
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Social Conflict Abridged: From Unperceived Injuries to Claiming—What is Conflict?
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Inequalities of Equalization Leave Ontarians Worse Off: Have-nots end up with better services than provinces that are paying the bills
In a Toronto Star column, the Chair of the Ontario Institute for Public Policy points out equalization harms Ontario.
How Equalization Hammers Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia: Have provinces suffer because of transfer programs
Equalization is a disaster for Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia as it funds richer services in have-not provinces compared to “have” provinces.
Health Insurance: Clear Diagnosis, Uncertain Remedy: Governments are increasingly turning to private insurance in order to widen access to health care and make it more efficient. Are they expecting too much?
“Governments want to spur private insurance in the hope of solving three big problems bedevilling their national systems of health care: inadequate access to care; soaring costs; and a paucity of innovation. They hope thus to improve their citizens’ health without tearing more holes in tattered public finances.”
Ontario Loses Out in Canada’s Wealth-Sharing Plan
“Canada’s wealth-sharing program is so out of whack that Ontario residents are helping to fund better government services in so-called poor provinces than they enjoy at home, says a new study.”
Reform Unprincipled Equalization System: Equalization harms all of Canada
Equalization is a problem because it is one of the principal pillars of Canadian federalism—but unprincipled in its design and impact.
The Global Fiscal Crisis: The future of public spending
The Executive Director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable has some insightful thoughts for the world at large in a new Frontier Centre Backgrounder.
Labor in Denial as ETS Fairyland Fractures: The Rudd government stares down the gun barrel of one of the greatest policy and political retreats of the past generation that confounds its election strategy and its policy credibility.
“Hale says the US confronts a dual crisis of economics and governance with climate change relegated to a minority issue. “America seems crippled by the fiscal crisis,” he says.”
Media Release – The Real Have-Nots in Confederation: Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia: How Canada’s equalization program creates generous programs and large governments in have-not provinces
British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario—the traditional “have” provinces—have fewer doctors and nurses per 100,000 people, higher tuition rates, fewer child care spaces, less social service spending, and higher educator-student ratios in comparison with Quebec, the major equalization recipient.
The Real Have-Nots In Confederation: British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario
British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario—the traditional “have” provinces—have fewer services than recipient “have-not” provinces.