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.
Year: 2013
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.
German Perspective on Spying and Privacy
The global spying scandal shows that the US has become manic
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Canada’s Best Doctors Suffer the COVID-19 Inquisition
Some of Canada's best doctors have suffered undue trouble for sharing their concerns with lockdowns, masks, social distancing and COVID-19 vaccines. Authorities in the medical profession have treated these physicians like apparent heretics under the threat of...
Inflation and the Collective Debt: Consequences of COVID-19 Measures
The economic consequences of COVID-19 and the shutdown of the economy are difficult to evaluate. But some of them have begun to appear and risk hindering recovery. Inflation is one of these harmful consequences. In the USA, consumer prices jumped 4.2 per cent in the...
A New Crown Review: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
In this study, Sheldon Schwartz, a former Crown Investments Corporation Vice President, examines the case for a new review of Saskatchewan’s Crown Corporations. He argues that much has changed in the 15 years since the last review, and the time has come to take another look at the provinces asset portfolio.
Crown Corporations Interview
Tomorrow morning I will be on John Gormley’s show on Newstalk in Saskatchewan to talk about a new report we’re releasing calling for a review of the province’s Crown Corporations.
Media Release – The Private Production of Ecological Goods and Services: The rise and fall of an Alberta policy proposal for hunting
A new study by the Frontier Centre looks back at a 2008 Alberta proposal that sought to compensate private landowners for protecting habitat for wildlife and argues that the widely-misunderstood proposal was a great way to balance competing public and private interests.
Hunting for Habitat: The Rise and fall of an Alberta Proposal for the Private Production of Ecological Goods and Services
The Alberta government failed to realize an opportunity to harness private interests for the public interest when it shelved its Hunting for Habitat proposal, which would have compensated private landowners for opening up their lands to hunters and allowed some tags to be sold.
ATB Branches May Privatize to Cover Alberta’s Growing Deficit: Move would net about $4 billion
The Alberta Treasury Branch (ATB Financial) may be sold to private ownership to subsidize Alberta’s growing deficit, netting an approximate $4 billion dollars in fiscal influx to cover government expenditure.
Public Private Partnerships In Regina
Last night I attended a Regina city council meeting where the usage of a Public Private Partnership for the construction, operation and maintenance of a new waste water treatment plant was discussed.
America’s Red State Growth Corridors: Low-tax, energy-rich regions in the heartland charge ahead as economies on both coasts sing the blues.
Cheap U.S. natural gas has some envisioning the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge as an “American Ruhr.” Much of this growth, notes Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, will be financed by German and other European firms that are reeling from electricity costs now three times higher than in places like Louisiana.
Regina Crime Rate Continues to Fall as Population Grows
Will Chabun reported in today’s Leader-Post that Regina’s crime statistics continue to fall. One can potentially attribute this to several factors: policing practices, community organizations, consistently low unemployment. It is difficult to assign weightings to such factors. But one factor is often left out of this discussion that almost certainly deserves part of the credit: increased population.
How to Waste Tax Money: Buy Canadian
The way we buy equipment for our military is badly broken. Ottawa’s latest report on how to fix it proposes making it even worse.