The referendum’s over, but where does the Wheat Board go to retrieve its honour? Its interference in the process demonstrates again that it is a renegade agency willing to use the people’s money to engage in special pleading.
Dennis Owens
Cheaper Government Auto Insurance?
When the Consumers’ Association and publicly owned auto insurance monopolies tell the public that model delivers lower premiums, they are spreading misinformation. Private companies do offer competitive rates.
Why Are Parents Paying Twice?
Manitoba’s education system is soaking parents who choose not to enroll their children in often substandard public schools. Those who use independent schools, who home-school and who use remedial learning centres all face discrimination and two tiers.
The Gender Gap in Education
The old gender gap in schools, where boys did better than girls, has been reversed. Now we need to address the problem’s mirror image, where girls are beating boys by wide margins.
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Expanding the Trades
Manitoba’s school system overemphasizes university entrance, and the result is huge drop-out rates in universities and a shortage of skilled tradesmen. The German system of apprenticeship works better.
School Choice and Special Education Students
Programs in Florida and Utah that offer the parents of special needs students a choice between special programming and mainstreaming are proving superior to policies directed by political correctness.
Teacher Certification in Canada
Current methods of certifying teachers are not able to meet coming shortages. An alternative certification pioneered in New Jersey offers a way out.
Creating a High Performance Public School System in Manitoba
If we adopted a clear-headed, results-oriented philosophy of education „Ÿ and embarked in a consequent manner on the reform of standards, finances and administration „Ÿ we could create the strongest public school system in the country. Instead of the province which spends the largest percentage of GDP on schools, Manitoba would become renowned as the province that achieved the best results.
Aboriginal Education in Manitoba
Aboriginals are an integral part of Manitoba’s society and, along with everyone else, need to receive a quality education. Current strategies to ensure that are ineffective and should be reconsidered.
Aboriginal Governance Index – 2006-2007
How well are Manitoba’s First Nations governed? A groundbreaking Index ranks them according to what their own people think.
Winnipeg’s History of Money Bylaws
The use of direct democracy can put a check on the ambition of politicians even as it speeds the progress of improvements and keeps city taxes affordable.
Pension off School Boards
Manitoba’s modern experience with school divisions is uniformly negative. Let’s modernize school administration and funding.
Parent Power in Britain
An internal Labour Party struggle is waging over the principles underlying “parent power” and the template for school-based management the policy recommends for public schools in Great Britain.