Cuba takes steps to expand private sector operations in their country.
Year: 2011
A Law and Order Christmas Story
From Ottawa a response of police that demonstrates care. I applaud the actions of the Ottawa police for demonstrating exceptional service to the community and sharing the Christmas spirit.
Make Immigration Break Even
The Canadian government recently announced a moratorium on immigration applications for parents and grandparents of Canadians under the family reunification program. But rather than eliminating the program, as many opponents have urged, the government should instead find a way to ensure that sponsors are bearing its full costs. A reasonable way to reconcile concerns would be to charge an entrance fee to sponsored parents and grandparents through the family reunification program.
Self Brewing in Nova Scotia
Tommy Douglas declare alcohol as bad
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Canada Health Consumer Index 2011
The Canada Health Consumer Index compares the performance of Canada’s ten provincial healthcare systems from the perspective of the consumer.
Council Tackles Shortage of Taxis: Major overhaul aims to ease difficulty getting late-night ride
City hall is contemplating a major overhaul of late-night cab and public transit service in Calgary, as holiday revellers com-plain they are being squeezed by a “perfect storm” of travel hindrances.
Tackling the On-Reserve Housing Crisis: Depoliticizing Housing on Aboriginal communities
The housing crisis on Attawapiskat is one example of larger problems with indigenous housing which is a reliance on an unsustainable model and an unwillingness to admit housing is also a political issue on many First Nations.
Kyoto Fraud Revealed
Over the years, some of the Kyoto fairy dust had begun to wear off. Global greenhouse emissions did not in fact appear to be declining very much. Many of the EU cuts were accounting tricks; counting the closure of inefficient, money-losing industrial dinosaurs in East Germany that were doomed to close anyway towards Germany’s greenhouse targets was a fairly typical example.
Convoy of No Confidence
Australian protest against green carbon tax.
For the Record
We must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
First Nations in Canada fighting same battle as Cubans
Cuba is a country undergoing economic modernization. This past year, the country allowed citizens to sale and purchase private property. Just recently, the government announced that citizens may now own vehicles. Slowly, this country is reforming itself and allowing...
How First Nations can own Their Future
Reports of people living in tents and shacks at Attawapiskat evoke comparisons with the Third World, with people living in the shantytowns of South Africa and the barrios of Mexico. The comparison is apt, because we now know a lot about how people in the Third World have elevated themselves out of extreme poverty.
Awakening to Tragedy Among Young Female South Asians
Parliament needs to address the policy gap regarding the high suicide rate among young women of South Asian origin in Canada.