“As waves of immigrants from the developing world remade Canada a decade ago, the famously friendly people of Manitoba could not contain their pique. What irked them was not the Babel of tongues, the billions spent on health care and social services, or the explosion of ethnic identities. The rub was the newcomers’ preference for “M.T.V.” — Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver — over the humble prairie province north of North Dakota, which coveted workers and population growth.”
Worth A Look
Did 2010’s Man of the Year Die in 1897?
“If you’re a renter who reads the newspapers, you have spent the last few years in a constant state of low-level anger at this “bizarre spectacle”—the unexamined assumption that perpetually escalating housing prices are the natural state of human affairs, and certainly a good enough proxy for economic health that the two quantities are freely interchangeable. How much more bizarre must it look in England?”
Taking Ownership Of Their Land
“The legislation is intended to help First Nations participate in the national economy on terms which most Canadians take for granted. However, participation will be optional. No one will be forced to do anything with their lands. Those of us who choose to participate will be able to escape the oversight of the Indian Act and actually take legal title to our own lands.”
Manitoba’s Immigration Record Hailed: Nominee plan envy of nation
“Manitoba’s provincial nominee immigration program has been a rousing success thus far but still has room for improvement, a new report concludes.”
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Time to Stop Lockdowns, Vaccine Mandates and Crushing Our Charter of Rights
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Propaganda Rules the World
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Has “Peak Oil” Peaked?
It is always interesting to watch what happens when the media latches onto a given issue and then, as the reality on the ground evolves — sometimes radically — the media fails to catch up to, or even monitor, the changes. This means the public is stuck with an outdated version of conventional wisdom which, even if it were true in the first place, is no longer so.
Do Not Let The ‘Cure’ Destroy Capitalism
As governments continue to determine how many restrictions to place on markets, especially financial markets, the destruction of wealth from the recession should be placed in the context of the enormous creation of wealth and improved well-being during the past three decades. Financial and other reforms must not risk destroying the source of these gains in prosperity.
Climate Campaigners, Sceptics Live In Different Worlds
The main greenhouse gas is not CO2. It is water, as vapour and clouds. It gives up to 95 per cent of the greenhouse effect. Legislation and treaties to limit CO2 emissions are pointless.
More Money Isn’t The Answer
This problem doesn’t need the Band-Aid of more money; it needs a fundamental re-think, which means embracing ideas like greater efforts at prevention (favoured by the left), better use of information technology (supported by the centre) — and, yes, user fees and greater competition (promoted by the right).
Spending Won’t Turn Economy Around This Year–But Tax Cuts, Federal Frugality Just Might
Reduce government spending and tax rates, and trust the people to spend their money more efficiently than politicians and bureaucrats would. Unlike government spending, this approach actually works. In the early 1980s, it turned the worst recession in 40 years into the greatest boom.
Revealed: Antarctic Ice Growing, Not Shrinking
The ice cover is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.
Ontario Joins ‘Have-Nots’, Gets First Equalization Payment
“The situation is so serious that (Ontario, Alberta and B.C.) are expected to provide enough funding to effectively insulate these jurisdictions from the impact of the economic crisis,” said MacKinnon, a former CEO for the Ontario Hospital Association. He noted 40 per cent of Manitoba’s budget is funded by federal transfers while its public sector is 50 per cent bigger than Ontario’s on a per-capita basis.
A Great Time to Kill Equalization
Ontario has sunk to have-not status, holed by the collapse of the auto industry and the deterioration of the manufacturing base that sustained it for so long. Premier Dalton McGuinty’s frequent demands for a better deal from Ottawa have been temporarily quieted by billions of dollars in federal spending to offset the recession and encourage adoption of a harmonized sales tax, but the road back to its previous level of prosperity will be long and difficult.
Don’t Hide School Rankings
Public education should not require us to put blind faith in the plainly ridiculous idea that all schools bearing the government trademark are equal. If the quality of public education did not benefit from competition and informed consumer choice, it would be the only consumer good in the universe that didn’t. And if our choice of schools must be straitened, it is all the more vital for data about schools to be abundant, multivalent and accessible.