The Manitoba Government has now decided that one size fits all does not work well for guiding municipal mergers. That is a small positive step for the know it all people in government. The next step is to understand that local municipalities have been entering into...
Year: 2013
Government regulation threatens homeless meal program
A program in southern Ontario that serves meals to homeless people is being threatened because it is using home cooked meals.
The State has no business with the grannies of the nation
There are dozens and dozens of things that are good for people, for children, for families. But does that mean that the government should pay for every identifiable good? There is no doubt that grandparents are crucial influences in people's lives. One who...
Understanding Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure (Gilroy)
PowerPoint Slides for Leonard Gilroy’s Event.
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Celebrating Manitoba’s Fisher River First Nation
Indigenous communities in Manitoba face some of the greatest obstacles. Over the years, when the UN Human Development Index was applied to First Nation communities across Canada, Manitoba First Nations often ranked lowest. So, it’s important to highlight some of the...
UK-Canada Nuclear Fusion Project Could Generate Jobs, Unite Climate Alarmists and Skeptics
For a long time, nuclear fusion has been a sci-fi fantasy; the holy grail of energy production that involves the combination of multiple atomic nuclei to generate energy. It’s the same process used by the sun to create energy, and the opposite of nuclear fission,...
European Fuel Poverty Coming to Manitoba?
If the provincial government's expansionary plans for Manitoba Hydro are realized, the cost to poorer Manitobans may be measured by more than massively increased electricity bills, but also in deteriorated health and shorter lifespans. Taking into account Manitoba...
A Hospital Case: Sweden is leading the world in allowing private companies to run public institutions
SAINT GORAN’S hospital is one of the glories of the Swedish welfare state. It is also a laboratory for applying business principles to the public sector. The hospital is run by a private company, Capio, which in turn is run by a consortium of private-equity funds, including Nordic Capital and Apax Partners. The doctors and nurses are Capio employees, answerable to a boss and a board. Doctors talk enthusiastically about “the Toyota model of production” and “harnessing innovation” to cut costs.
Poverty and Growth: Retro-Urbanists Cling to the Myth of Suburban Decline: Suburbs have more poor people mainly because they have more people, write Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox.
In the wake of the post-2008 housing bust, suburbia has become associated with many of the same ills long associated with cities, as our urban-based press corps and cultural elite cheerfully sneer at each new sign of decline, most recently a study released Monday by the Brookings Institution—which has become something of a Vatican for anti-suburban theology—trumpeting the news that there are now 1 million more poor people in America’s suburbs than in its cities.
Benny Peiser, Director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation: Europe’s failing green energy model has enriched a green elite while plunging millions into fuel poverty
Europe’s failing green energy model has enriched a green elite while plunging millions into fuel poverty.
Ontario endangered species campaign ignores bias in laws
Some environmentalist organizations are embarking on a campaign to protest changes to Ontario’s endangered species laws, ignoring the anti-property bias of the existing law.
Scrapping the Provincial Achievement Tests will Join Race to the Bottom
Alberta education minister Jeff Johnson recently announced plans to scrap the Provincial Achievement Tests (PATs) currently written by grade 3, 6 and 9 students. More “student-friendly” assessments will be written at the beginning of the year. This is a disappointing development, especially since Alberta has long been the top-performing province in the country.
Muzzling Those in the Know
Despite constant indications and reminders that a province with an state-directed economy, one over-burdened by out-of-control government expenditures, is not likely to be a stellar economic performer, the provincial government continued its quest to extend its hegemony.
To Eat or Heat? That’s the EU’s Question
For a growing number of Europeans, their continent’s global warming policies have forced them to decide whether to heat their homes or buy food. In short they must choose whether to “Heat or Eat,” which was the title of a talk by a British climate policy expert delivered in Calgary Tuesday.
To Heat or Eat: Europe’s Climate Policy Fiasco (Peiser)
PowerPoint slides which accompanied Benny Peiser’s speech To Heat or Eat: Europe’s Climate Policy Fiasco that he gave in Calgary on May 14, 2013.