Gary Tarantino owns arguably the most valuable taxi in Vancouver, in an industry already known for its breathtakingly high licence values. Tarantino’s Licence 70384 could easily command more than $1 million in a business where the average Vancouver taxi costs $800,000. That’s because he is the last holdout of independent taxi owners in an industry where all of the other 687 licences are held by the city’s four taxi companies.
Year: 2013
Mr. Suzuki’s Baseless, Irresponsible Immigration Claims
Imagine there was a policy that could reduce global poverty, conserve natural resources and help alleviate the coming retirement crisis, all while also fostering domestic economic growth. You would have to be either misinformed or malicious to oppose this policy, right? Well, this policy exists, and it’s called immigration.
Ironically, “progressive” hero David Suzuki has come out in favour of reducing immigration levels, only to be met with opposition from Conservative Minister of Immigration, Jason Kenney, who defended the value of immigration to Canada.
Fear, Shame and Silence – the New Hydro
Publius On the orders of its master, the NDP government of Manitoba, Manitoba Hydro doggedly continues to implement a risky and seemingly ever increasingly expensive development plan. (Is there anyone left that actually believes the forecasts of costs, export revenues...
Municipal Amalgamation – Not a Good Idea
Given the opportunity, I would support a move back to two councils and a shared services agreement.
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China’s Intensifying Estrangement and Nativism may Make its Scientific Progress Stagnate
One of the most notable features of Nazi regime in Germany was its anti-intellectualism. While it claimed to be in the forefront of scientific and technical advances, its ideology and totalitarian rule made free enquiry and interchange between scientists and other...
Evasive Accountability: A New Norm for Police and Security Services in Canada
Since the founding of this country, a totalitarian, closed form of government has been considered unacceptable and un-American. The public assumes they have the freedom to be left alone and to live a life in privacy, while the government is believed to be open...
Media Release – Frontier’s Education Video Series to Air on SUN TV This Week: Common Sense Education
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is delighted to announce that five videos from its new education reform series entitled Common Sense Education will be broadcast nationwide on Byline with Bryan Lilley on Sun TV at 9pm ET each night this week.
STC eliminates three absurdly wasteful routes
The Saskatchewan Transportation Company is far from a hallmark of efficiency. But credit should be given when due, and the minister responsible for STC, Don McMorris, deserves recognition for making the politically difficult decision to eliminate three spectacularly wasteful STC routes.
To Improve Our Universities, Let the Best Teachers Teach More Courses
Just as it makes sense to let the best researchers spend their time researching, it makes sense to encourage the best teachers to spend their time teaching.
Sometimes, Politicians Get in the Way of Community
Recently, residents of Okotoks learned that it is illegal to skate on a neighbourhood pond. People who lived in the neighbourhood since it was built a decade ago were not aware that town council had changed the rules, making such a fun activity unlawful for their children. A town councillor said that she wants to save lives, though no lives have been threatened.
Republican response to Obama throwing down the gauntlet on climate and energy was weak, wholly inadequate
Republican Senator Marco Rubio’s feeble response to President Obama throwing down the gauntlet on the nation’s energy policy.
Report Calling Sask. Unaffordable Got it All Wrong
Frontier Senior Fellow Wendell Cox explains how the article “Report Calling Sask. Unaffordable Got it All Wrong” from the Saskatoon StarPhoenix confuses statistics to reach a mistaken conclusion.
Do Universities Exploit Undergraduates? (Clifton)
PowerPoint slides which accompanied Rodney Clifton’s speech Do Universities Exploit Undergraduates? that he gave in Winnipeg on February 7, 2013.
Nelson to import American Indian Movement
A Winnipeg chapter of the American Indian Movement will be formally organized on Saturday with Nelson, the former head of the Roseau River reserve, announcing Tuesday that three of 20 positions on the Grand Governing Council will be filled in a ceremony at Thunderbird House. Nelson said the Idle No More movement has engaged aboriginals.
Apprehending a Potential Boondoggle
As matters now stand, if government allows Hydro to ‘go over the cliff” with an inadequately tested commercial gamble and ‘things’ don’t work out as they plan (not much has, recently), while their leadership could walk away and retire (perhaps to a warmer climate), the general population of Manitoba cannot.