Signs of pride and prosperity were evident all over Williamsport and the gorgeous northern Pennsylvania countryside around it. Friendly, happy people greeted us. New cars, trucks, hotels and restaurants sparkled in a clean, bustling downtown. New roofs topped barns and houses, while late model tractors worked the fields. Formerly dirt roads are now paved.
Year: 2013
The Anti-Science Wing of the Organic Movement
Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, published over half a century ago, lent itself for organic activists to “cherry-pick” from her writings and to adopt the prevalent view that anything synthetic is bad and everything natural is good. A mere handful of organic...
Costs and Benefits
The Province's majority NDP government has released another media release praising its plans and actions "to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and become better able to withstand climate change". Publius wonders if the Province's taxpayers, ratepayers and...
Job Training is Best Left to the Provinces
The federal government has decided to withdraw funding for provincial job programs. While downloading funding responsibility to the provinces makes sense, since they are better able to administer such local initiatives, the federal government needs to free up tax revenue for the provinces to fund these programs.
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Profile Series: Arthur Laffer
“Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I’ve never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I’ve never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.” Arthur Betz “Art” Laff er is one of the world’s most renowned...
Even After Banning Crypto, Does Communist China Have Greater Faith in Crypto Than the West?
Canadian and British regulators are on an entirely different wavelength to a significant portion of the cryptocurrency market and industry, implementing new regulations and casting doubt on the future of decentralized digital currencies. It comes at a time when China...
ICSC Media Release – “Earth Hour” Should be Replaced with ‘Energy Hour’: Forget ‘Earth Hour’; Participate in ‘Energy Hour’ one hour earlier
Media Release from International Climate Science Coalition. (ICSC)
Manitoba’s Bill 18 Fails the Test of Good Legislation
Bullying is deeply hurtful to students and destructive to the culture of schools. In the past, bullying was often dismissed as a minor issue, but today school officials and the general public take it much more seriously. Several provinces, including Manitoba, have decided to redress school bullying with legislation. But, to be effective, the legislation must satisfy two fundamental criteria: it must define bullying accurately, and it must respect existing rights and freedoms.
Hunting for Habitat: On the Private Production of Ecological Goods and Services (Knopff)
PowerPoint slides which accompanied Rainer Knopff’s speech Hunting for Habitat: On the Private Production of Ecological Goods and Services that he gave in Calgary on February 28, 2013.
Saskatchewan Budget 2013
Well, the Saskatchewan Budget was released today and it was pretty boring, to be honest.
Seeking a Pragmatic Review of Saskatchewan’s Crown Corporations: A New Crown Review: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Sheldon Schwartz, who has worked for the government of Saskatchewan, notes that it has been more than 15 years since the last review of Saskatchewan’s Crown corporations and five years since he first proposed one. The time for a new Crown Review has come.
GITaR, Gradual Income Tax Reduction
People falsely believe that cutting taxes prevents governments from having healthy revenue growth to do the things it alone can do. There is a way to lower the tax burden without reducing government services. This means is GITaR, Gradual Income Tax Reduction.
Sydney to Abandon Radical Urban Containment Policy
The New South Wales government has proposed a new Metropolitan Strategy for the Sydney area which would significantly weaken the urban containment policy (also called urban consolidation, smart growth, livability, growth management, densification, etc.) that has driven if house prices to among the highest in the affluent New World (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States) relative to household incomes.
170,000 New Homes for Sydney
The largest release of housing lots in 20 years will bring home ownership within reach for thousands of young families, the state government says. Up to 171,000 new homes will be built across 31 new and existing suburbs, alongside land for new jobs, shops, schools and transport.
Saskatchewan Budget Tomorrow
All eyes will be on Saskatchewan tomorrow when the provincial government releases its annual budget.