After the last couple of American elections, it’s become clear that the greatest challenge for conservatives is taking back the culture. And that’s a problem in Canada as well. One of the greatest obstacles to this lies in our universities, which have been taken over by their politically correct faculty members. The solution will come schools that combine new technologies with a classical curriculum.
Year: 2013
Canadians need good information about water markets
A new column by the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) shows how politics is preventing water from reaching communities in southern California that desperately need it. In short, the column promotes water markets and pricing as superior to politics when...
Suffocating Bureaucracy & Failed Institutions
The real reason for the collapse of embryonic civil society in Egypt appears to be poorly understood.
Within this excellent article in the UK The Telegraph , by the Editor of The Spectator Fraser Nelson “It is capitalism, not democracy, that the Arab world needs most” ( h/t Australian Institute of Public Affairs … Hey… what did I miss? newsletter ) , the real reasons for this failure are explained.
We See Thee Rise: Canada’s Emerging Role In Policy Leadership
In their 2010 book The Canadian Century: Moving Out of America’s Shadow, Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens, and Niels Veldhuis, three leading Canadian policy and think tank experts, described the great opportunity lying ahead for our northern neighbor. Public policy reforms that increased market incentives, opened new areas to trade and production, and moved toward increased economic freedom and financial stability, reversed the trends that made Canada lag behind the U.S. Canada today ranks ahead of the United States in economic freedom and in transparency, as well as in many other economic indicators such as lower levels of debt, less unemployment, and higher GDP growth.
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Beijing’s Minions Don’t Belong on Canadian Stock Exchanges
The Chinese economy is growing and surpassing the U.S. economy in size. That stature, with its consequent soft and hard power, means opposition to the Communist Party of China (CPC) regime needs to be multilateral. No matter how much unipolarity the U.S. has enjoyed...
Manitoba Trade with the U.S.: The Need to Strengthen Relations with the Midwest
Trade is essential for Manitoba’s economy. International exports and imports represented 46.4 per cent of GDP for Manitoba in 2018. With a significant goods-related industry estimated at 26.9 per cent of GDP in 2019, Manitoba needs to have strong trading partners to...
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What is the impact of the Act to Amend the Indian Act and to Provide for its Replacement (Bill C-428)?
The Indian Act is an outdated and paternalistic law that impedes economic progress for First Nations communities across Canada. Fortunately, positive policy reform may be on the way. Recently, Saskatchewan MP Rob Clarke introduced a private member’s bill (Bill C-428)...
Blair on Thatcher
Yesterday, PBS Newshour's coverage of Margaret Thatcher's passing last night included a great interview with two former high level officials from the Reagan administration, George Schultz and James Baker. The one comment that stuck with me was Baker's comment that...
New technology could help more First Nations elections
A Saskatchewan native community is acting as a trailblazer by adopting new technology to curb voter fraud. This move can hopefully inspire more communities to do likewise.
BCE Buys Astral Media Round Two
The production sector fears a corporate culture clash with Bell and a buyer that is so big it does not have to negotiate.
Auditor General, Absence Missed
The Auditor General would perform a valuable public service by announcing and commencing a thorough investigation and ‘value for money’ audit of Hydro’s plans and actions.
The Coming Global Warming Voter Backlash
News is breaking out all over: global warming stopped 20 years ago. A political earthquake has resulted from a feature story in the Economist magazine because the Economist used to be a consistent cheerleader for global warming activism. Doubts about global warming used to be censored by its London editors, one reporter confided to Stephen Hayward.
EI for Seasonal Workers is a Corrosive Economic Policy
There is no justification, in logic or in economics, for seasonal EI, and the dogged pursuit of this policy flies in the face of the interests of Canada and people who become trapped in the cycle of working seasonally and then receiving EI benefits while unemployed. Some day a politician will have the guts to say so, but apparently not today.
Winnipeg’s Libertarian Socialist: Nick Ternette RIP
Winnipeg’s most colourful community activist was not a predictable big government left winger.