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Our Health Ministers Need to Take a Lesson from Hockey Coaches
Those of you who are tired of my rants about the demise of our once great health system will be pleased to know that this is my last editorial. I am retiring from the BCMJ Editorial Board; currently, I am the longest-serving member (more than 20 years). I have been a...
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
Can Ontario Afford Public Sector Padding in Manitoba
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Taxes or User Charges?
Like all governments, municipalities have the option of using a number of revenue-raising tools that have different characteristics. We examine, in this Charticle, the use of property taxes versus user charges for the funding of municipal services in 30 Canadian cities. FC038
Municipal Tax and Municipal Tax Reliance
Frontier’s Local Government Frontiers Project collected various financial data from Canada’s 30th largest cities in 2007. This Charticle presents the levels of taxation imposed collected divided by the number of households counted in each jurisdiction. FC037
Canadian Cities Lead World Housing Affordability
Dramatic differences exist amongst affordability levels in Canadian cities. The median house in Thunder Bay costs 1.8 years’ income, whereas residents of Kelowna require 8.5 years’ income. FC046
Equalization Pays for Manitoba’s Cheap Hydro
Huge equalization transfers allows Manitoba to travel a path of un-green energy policy. FC035
Is Quota Helping to Kill the Family Farm?
As the entry price into the monopoly increases the number of dairy farms is collapsing. FC034
A Tale of Two Telcos
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Temperature Shift or Measurement Shift?
A fast overview of the issue of land-based temperature measurement and the difficulties presented by urban heat islands.
Competitive Tendering Saves Winnipeg 40%
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