Regina’s high schools ranked mid-pack and lower based on a new marking system that evaluates how such institutions in Saskatchewan are performing.
Media Appearances
Safe Spending Plan Could Cost Tories
It’s hard not to read between the lines of Finance Minister Lloyd Snelgrove’s comments about the provincial budget he delivers Thursday. Snelgrove describes the financial blueprint as “practical,” and “not too flashy.”
Canada ‘A Frightened Country’
Gairdner’s worry about persistent deficit spending, smothering socialism, the Charter of Rights (which granted additional rights without giving Canadians balancing responsibilities) and loss of traditions led (after five rejection letters) to The Trouble With Canada -plus a string of other books and a reputation as the guy who helped jumpstart a pendulum swing toward conservative values.
Truth or Consequences: Your Call, Saint John
Sometimes when I want to get a snapshot of what the people are thinking, I go to the newspaper’s online site. At the top of the list, both in terms of most read and most commented, was “Pothole Pandemonium” (Feb. 18) with 33 comments mostly critical of the condition of our streets with literally hundreds of thumbs-up. However, one particular comment unrelated to the public’s growing disenchantment with the condition of our streets caught my attention.
Featured News
Process, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Accountability and Transparency Inspectorate, ‘PEEATI’
A litany of disastrous decisions have sometimes cost lives and definitely many billions of dollars. Effectively cancelling the Global Public Health Intelligence Network; the failure to implement the pandemic preparedness protocols developed by Ottawa’s public health...
Foreign Influence in Canadian Economy?
Foreign influence or interference has become a mediatic topic. The fear and suspicion of interference in the elections and democratic process have been in news headlines. For the western countries, the suspicion bears on Russia and China. Revisionist powers have a...
Snitching Won’t Help Fix Health-Care Problems
The public health-care system in Canada is being eroded by its many inefficiencies, not by those who seek care outside the system, or by facilities, or practitioners who charge extra.
Rethinking the Reserve – Problems of Governance
Part of a National Post series examining solutions to the challenges that plague the reserve system.
Health care – How Our System Compares
Canadians are generally proud of the country's "universally accessible" health care system, but that doesn't mean an ongoing debate over its effectiveness should be off limits. Even the system's most ardent supporters should feel there's some room for improvement...
‘Afrocentric’ Approach Doomed to Fail
Underprivileged inner-city youth don't need more cultural sensitivity to succeed, they need higher expectations. The Toronto District School Board has approved the establishment of a Black-focused or "Afrocentric" school, so it appears curriculum specialists have...
Study Really Hits Home
Keeping company with the likes of Los Angeles, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Sydney, Australia, Kelowna has shown up on a list of “severely unaffordable” housing markets. “This year, we expanded our survey to include more Canadian cities, so Kelowna debuted as the...
Canada’s Health-Care System Comes in 30th: Study
Well, it’s good to know that in total points we’re ahead of Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Latvia. It means Canada beat most former Soviet bloc countries — all, really, except Estonia and the Czech Republic — in offering people medicine with a human face.
Winnipeg’s Housing Affordability Ranking Drops 20 Places
Winnipeg has dropped 20 notches in an international ranking of the world's most affordable housing markets, thanks in part to its strong economic performance in recent years, according to a new study released Monday. The Frontier Centre for Public Policy's fourth...
Saskatoon Pricey Pick
Saskatoon’s ranking in an annual survey of affordable places to live across the globe has tanked. The Fourth Annual Demographia Housing Affordability Survey, which is publicly released today, ranked 227 cities in Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Britain and...
What a Concept: The Patient as a Health Care Consumer
Imagine if the balance of power within Canada’s health care system swung from provider to the patient.