Colin Craig, Canadian Taxpayers Federation A man who lives on an aboriginal reserve in Quebec once described how he went out for milk one day, came home and saw a death threat scrawled on his driveway. What did he do to provoke such a hostile act? He told the Canadian...
Year: 2013
Education Course Professors Provide Bad Instruction
Anyone in Canada who wants to be a teacher must obtain a teaching certificate. Nowadays most teachers must complete a Bachelor of Education degree from an accredited university or teachers college. Increasingly, those schools that train teachers are getting poor marks...
Hydro Has Conflict With Gas
Two energy sources dominate Manitoba's winter heating environment: hydro-generated electricity and natural gas. One, through the electricity grid, has been extended, assisted by significant government and ratepayer subsidies, to cover over 98 per cent of households....
Life in a climate cataclysm box
Dennis M. Mitchell and David R. Legates As children playing on the beach, we discovered a fascinating behavioral pattern among hermit crabs. Place a dozen in a cardboard box, and within minutes the crabs exit their shells and try to occupy another. This mild...
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Fostering a Constructive, Business-Friendly Regime Sustains Innovation, Not Government Money
For standards of living to grow, productivity growth must be strong and continually renewed. That is one notion that nearly all economists can agree on. So, it is not surprising that politicians scramble to discover new or not-so-new ways to boost productivity growth....
Big Tech Influence Can Tip Elections
Behavioural psychologist Robert Epstein believes Google can and does influence voters and that research teams in Canada and elsewhere need to monitor how users are being swayed. Epstein, the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and founder of the American...
Are Eco Terrorists Back?
News of traps on nature trails in the British Columbia woods bring back memories of previous eco-terrorist violence in North America. But they also bring something new. Radical environmentalists Earth First! (EF!) once sabotaged ski resorts and attempted to sabotage a...
The Economic Blunders Behind the Arab Revolutions: In Egypt and Syria, misguided food and water policies set the stage for revolt and civil war.
Sometimes economies can’t be fixed after decades of statist misdirection, and the people simply get up and go. Since the debt crisis of the 1980s, 10 million poor Mexicans—victims of a post-revolutionary policy that kept rural Mexicans trapped on government-owned collective farms—have migrated to the United States. Today, Egyptians and Syrians face economic problems much worse than Mexico’s, but there is nowhere for them to go.
The Rise Of University-Based Free Market Think Tanks Will Greatly Enhance The Liberty Discussion
During the last decades, most of the efforts to study the importance of free enterprise and to develop private solutions to public policy problems took place at independent think tanks. The economic freedom indices, health savings accounts and the focus on regulatory burdens are good examples. Leadership came from think tanks, not the academy.
Fewer People Below Poverty Line than ever -Why are We not Talking About it?
It’s been almost a month since Statistics Canada released its latest report on poverty in Canada (“Income of Canadians,” June 27). Since then I’ve been watching to see whether somebody, anybody would write about it. You would think somebody would. It is a well-established principle of social justice that a society should make its first priority improving the lot of the worst off among it, and is to be judged by how well it does in this regard. What is more, the news on this front is remarkable, even extraordinary.
Ideology and Dysfunction in Family Law: How the courts disenfranchise fathers
For several decades now, fathers have faced significant, widespread bias in family courts across Canada.
Eco-Fascists (CFRA)
Elizabeth Nickson discusses her book "Eco-Fascists" on CFRA Radio.
It Is Time For the AFN to Embrace Democracy
The fact that a new movement is afoot to create an alternative to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) right at the time of a national AFN meeting means the AFN needs to figure out what it stands for.
Rooming House Options In Regina
Last week the city of Regina held a public meeting about Rooming Houses in the city. The meeting is part of a wider process the council is going through to try to address the dramatic housing shortage the city faces. There have been concerns from some communities,...
Nation-Wide Voters Shouldn’t (Unknowingly) Vote on Local Road Closures
Should the City of Winnipeg close Plessis Road during construction? If you’re not from Winnipeg, you likely don’t have an answer. It’s exceedingly unlikely that any more than 14 federal MPs have the slightest clue. Yet, the entire national electorate has essentially (and unknowingly) made this decision in the affirmative.