The calls for a nationwide discussion on the future of health care and various proposals on how to reform the system are piling up this week.
Media Appearances
Remedial Education: ‘Edu-babble’ and ‘child-centred learning’ are what ail schools, teacher says
The most significant hurdle facing students, Mr. Zwaagstra argues, is a pervasive anti-knowledge bias that resists the teaching of specific, common content. The “child-centred learning” philosophy expects teachers to tailor instruction to the individual needs of each student while making the experience “fun,” instead of teaching facts–the building blocks he believes should be in place before higher-level concepts can be taught.
New Website Measures Local Gov’t Transparency
A Canadian think tank has embarked on an effort to satisfy the public’s growing thirst for information in a digital age where people demand instant information at their finger tips – and want a say in how they access it to boot.
Kevin Libin: Why a backward approach makes city taxes go higher
Municipal tax hikes happen all the time. In most cities, denizens have come to accept them as an annual tradition, as arduous and inevitable as Lent or Yom Kippur. Still the question is: why do we accept them so apathetically? Canadians give no other level of government such easy licence.
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Global Fragmentation: The False Hope and Unrealistic Promises of Global Development Goals
In September 2000, one hundred and ninety-one member states established the United Nations Millennium Development Goals:1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; Achieve universal primary education; Promote gender equality and empower women; Reduce child mortality;...
What is the end Goal of Protests Over Residential School Graves?
In July, the Canadian prime minister denounced the arson and vandalism of Catholic churches across the country in the wake of the discovery of unmarked graves at former residential schools. After more than 1,100 unmarked graves were discovered at schools previously...
Getting it All Out in the Open
A couple of Maori men toured the country this month promoting their successful child literacy program and making it very clear that they’ve done it without the support of the Indigenous leaders in their country. Along the way they’ve provided a great deal of fodder...
Polar Bear Hunt a Way of Life
RESOLUTE, Nunavut -- In 26 years of chasing polar bears, Nathaniel Kalluk has never had another hunt like it. "It was springtime, many years ago," he begins, running a hand through hair coal black contrasted by one eyebrow white as the predator he stalks. "We were...
Wheat Board Wants Ports, Elevators if Told to go it Alone in Barley Market
The Canadian Wheat Board says the federal government will have to help it buy port facilities and grain elevators - or let it abandon the barley market altogether - if farmers vote to eliminate the board's monopoly. Chairman Ken Ritter said the board of directors has...
Pleased to be Coming Home
Regina was named “most affordable place to live in Canada,” according to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
Federal Budget: Attack on Capital Tax Pleases Business Community
There is no bang for your buck in that tax. In fact, it causes a lot of damage. It’s a real detriment to growth in the province.
MPI Gives Drivers Better Deal
The Chair of Manitoba Public Insurance disputes a Frontier study on the value of government car insurance.
Manitoba’s Equalization Shell Game
It is by challenging one of Canada’s defining programs, however, one from which Manitoba is a primary beneficiary, that the contrariness of the FCPP is most remarkable.
Suburban Decline
Decay in city’s middle-class areas casts doubt on affordability index
We’ve Got Pension Tension
Will government-funded plans be there when we need ’em? Many of us don’t think so . . .