Canada’s strong economic performance has given it a long-sought place in the global spotlight. Now the question it faces: what to do with its new power.
Year: 2010
National Post editorial board: Local politics matter
Where mayors and councilors have taken it upon themselves to improve citizens’ access to timely, reliable budget information, improvements in local-government services has followed.
Kevin Libin: Why a backward approach makes city taxes go higher
Municipal tax hikes happen all the time. In most cities, denizens have come to accept them as an annual tradition, as arduous and inevitable as Lent or Yom Kippur. Still the question is: why do we accept them so apathetically? Canadians give no other level of government such easy licence.
Why Do Greens Hate and Fear Abundant Energy?
“Instead of producing more of the cheap, abundant energy that fueled America’s dynamic growth, the extremists who support and surround Obama dream of drastically cutting American consumption.”
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How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs
Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the...
Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2023 Edition Released
Demographia International Housing Affordability rates middle-income housing affordability in 94 major housing markets in eight nations: Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This edition covers the third...
I’ve Seen the Future and the Private Car is Alive and Well: How mobile phones with GPS will make private transport dramatically more efficient
The advent of mobile GPS technology will rapidly bring down the time and effort costs of ride sharing, and may dramatically improve the efficiency of how people use private cars.
Better It Come From Here Than There
“With a mischievous half-grin on his face, Ezra Levant muses about getting the U.S. to extend the “country of origin labelling” law that’s been applied to Canadian beef to our gasoline, too.”
Ireland’s Bold Plan: The recovery blueprint reads like a list of supposed political impossibilities..
“The Irish government’s new budget plan, released this week, is a remarkable document. Faced with a huge deficit, skyrocketing debt and unemployment north of 14%, Brian Cowen’s government has responded with a plan that reads like a list of political impossibles.”
IPCC Climate Science Is Fundamentally Wrong: Carbon Footprint is All Wet
“Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science deliberately kept public focus on warmer temperatures and blamed it all on radiative forcing due to CO2. They virtually ignore water in all its forms, partly because terms of reference directed them to only human causes and because any consideration of the role of water destroys the CO2 hypothesis.”
A Conversation with Danielle Smith, Leader, Wildrose Alliance Party
Danielle Smith was interviewed after her Lunch on the Frontier speech in Winnipeg on November 22, 2010.
Danielle Smith: ‘My Life Will Fall Under the Microscope’
“Danielle Smith remembers the exact moment when her political self was born. And, as it turns out, her father, not her mother, delivered her.”
First Nations Want to Be Economic Players, Not Wards: Partnerships may be key to self-sufficiency
A potential offer from a First Nation group to purchase a potash corporation could signify a new trend among First Nations of entering the economy.
Food Banks And Poverty – Two Different Issues: Statistics fail to bear out the claim that rising food bank use predicts rising poverty.
The rise in the use of food banks doesn’t necessarily mean poverty is rising, as many commentators have claimed. Paradoxically, it this rise has occurred while official poverty rates have been falling. This doesn’t mean food banks are a bad thing, simply that they do not necessarily indicate increases in poverty.
What’s in Suing Big Tobacco?: The states interests may not always be the community’s interests
Governments in Canada are suing tobacco companies for the sake of the health of Canadians, even if tobacco sale and production are legal. The law suits set a precedent that further endangers unpopular industries such as fast food chains.