Source: Gregory Thomas, National Post, 20 November 2013 If Stephen Harper really wants to help working Canadians and their families, he needs to scrap the pork-barrelling Employment Insurance (EI) system designed by Pierre Trudeau, and give Canadians back their own...
Year: 2013
The Undead Suburban Office Market
Source: Wendell Cox, NewGeography, 18 November 2013 The restoration of central city living and working environments has been one of the more important developments in the nation’s metropolitan areas over the past two decades. Regrettably, a good story has been...
Equalization payments do nobody any favours
Source: Barry Cooper, The Calgary Herald, 12 Nov 2013 Legislation governing Canada’s equalization program, which supports most intergovernmental transfers, is scheduled to expire next March. Bureaucrats have been negotiating over new terms for at least a year. In...
Science and journalism take a vacation
A recent Times of London article claimed new “research” demonstrates that a “chemical onslaught is destroying Britain’s amphibians.” A “toxic cocktail,” it stated, is killing UK frogs, toads and newts. Manmade chemicals “can affect animals’ immune systems – leaving...
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Let’s Celebrate Reaching Global Population of Eight Billion
Recently, the United Nations estimated that the population of Planet Earth had reached eight billion souls. Despite the chatter of the highly subsidized climate doomster complex this is quite an achievement - it certainly indicates that the carrying capacity of our...
China’s “Truckers’ Convoy”
Anti-lockdown protests are now taking place across China - the Chinese equivalent of our Truckers’ Convoy. The protests are a reaction to the brutal policies that literally lock people in their apartments, when even one infection is detected. As in Canada, when...
Vouchers Should be Used to Fund Education
How do parents know if schools are good or bad? Parents tend to evaluate schools based on how well their kids master important academic skills such as reading and writing. How do taxpayers know if schools are good or bad? Taxpayers are more likely to think about how...
Exercise Your Right To Know
Manitoba’s Ombudsman is celebrating national Right to Know week (September 23 to 28), asserting our individual and democratic right to access government-held information and promoting open, accessible and transparent government. The Ombudsman notes that access to...
Public Private Partnerships – A Primer For Regina Voters
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has today released a new report on Public Private Partnerships [P3s] in anticipation of the City of Regina’s referendum this week. Entitled Public Private Partnerships: A Primer For Regina Voters, it is designed to provide an...
Public Private Partnerships
Introduction On 25th of September, the citizens of Regina will vote in a referendum for the first time in 20 years. The question? Whether the city should use a traditional contract to construct a new wastewater treatment plant or to proceed with the council’s...
Students Shouldn’t Have to Wait for a Good Education
People say that “good things come to those who wait.” Maybe they do. But this saying is cold comfort to the families of more than 8000 children who are waiting to get into the most popular charter school in Calgary. Foundations for the Future Charter Academy...
First Nation set to build private hospital
Innovation in health care is coming from an unlikely place. A First Nation in British Columbia is using its unique constitutional position to create what is taboo in the rest of Canada. The self-governing Westbank First Nation is set to build a 100-bed hospital to...
The Cost Disease in Alberta Public Schools
Students and educators in Calgary high schools are concerned about increasing class sizes according to CBC News. Calgary public schools are putting more than 40 students in a classroom and large classes are becoming increasingly common. This problem is a...
Suburban Nation: The Queens University Research
A team of researchers at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario has announced groundbreaking research that classifies the populations in the 33 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) by urban core, transit oriented suburban, automobile oriented suburban and exurban...
Education Should Focus on Knowledge: Manitoba schools falling behind
Manitoba can improve its education system by abandoning faddish ideas and embracing common sense solutions.