…the Commission must evaluate applications for a change in effective control against the objectives set out in the (Broadcasting) Act, as well as its own policies and regulations. The Commission considers that the concerns related to competition, ownership...
Year: 2012
The Future for Transport to Canada’s North: Airships and Other Options
PowerPoint slides which accompanied Barry Prentice’s speech The Future for Transport to Canada’s North: Airships and Other Options that he gave in Winnipeg, October 9, 2012.
American political parties could learn from Canada on indigenous policy
Much is being made of Canadian references in the most recent presidential debate. Canada was mentioned three times by Mitt Romney, the Republican Party's nominee for president. Twice was in reference to the Keystone XL pipeline project, which Romney said he would...
Final Regina Mayoral Debate
This morning I attended the final mayoral debate in the Regina municipal elections.
Featured News
Sustaining a Pariah State: Pakistan’s Ignominious Alliance in Afghanistan
The United Nations (UN) was born out of an idea for creating a society of nations, a global community, a brotherhood of nations built on a set of higher ideals. These ideals would give rise to a global village with accountability to each other, including social...
The Endemic Path is the Way Out
The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach. But his declaration, paraphrasing President...
Failing to Make the Roads Safer
This backgrounder argues that distracted driving laws do more harm than good.
Oil Sands Development Is Not A “Historic Mistake”
Ben Eisen and Eric Merkley show that oil sands development is an important economic opportunity contrary to the comments of EU clean energy advisor Jeremy Rifkin.
Traffic congestion: Metro Vancouver second worst in North America for local travel: City stalled in livability lane, says columnist Jon Ferry
Vancouver may no longer be eligible for inclusion among the world’s top 10 best places to live. But it can claim one distinction: It has the worst traffic congestion in Canada — and the second worst in North America, with only car-mad Los Angeles leaving it in its rear mirror.
Mortgage Rules Won’t Lower Prices: Land restrictions drive housing prices
The newly announced mortgage rules by the federal government will do little to advance housing affordability in Canada.
Time to End Supply Management – But it won’t go Quietly
For a brief, shining moment in the early 2000s, Canada had a small but thriving milk export business. Georgian Bay Milk Co., based in Barrie, Ont., would buy milk from a clutch of farmers operating outside Canada’s tightly controlled supply managed dairy industry and ship it to dairies in New York state.
Markets Delivery Declining CO2 levels
It is amazing how the private sector economy works. A bit of private sector innovation has solved the problem that avoids massive taxation and government regulation. Meanwhile, several European countries are continuing to block the development of Shale Gas while...
Ontario’s Tories take on the Unions — and It’s About Time
Recently the Toronto Star has been entertaining its readers with a series of stories on how work gets done at the Toronto District School Board: $143 to install a pencil sharpener, $2,900 to install an electrical outlet, that kind of thing.
Media Release – Local Government Performance Index: Comparative Canadian Municipal Statistics
The Local Government Performance Index affords users the ability to compare financial data among Canadian municipalities.
UK Fracking News
The UK has a break out of reasonable thinking?