“Patient-focused funding may not drive massive savings in health-care costs, but could have a significant impact on the Canadian economy if it plays a role in reducing wait lists.”
Worth A Look
Cheap Hydro is Wrong On At Least Two Counts
“It’s not every day that a government manages to be wrong in two different ways on the same issue at the same time.” More equalization mischief . . . Editorial observes that Quebec keeps its electricity prices low because raising them will trim its equalization payments.
The Business of Climate Change
Global warming has created a breeding ground for political capitalists.
On Water and Sewers, Park the Ideology: Winnipeg city council should move forward on a new public-private partnership
Winnipeg should adopt a new stand-alone model for managing public utilities; that will enable it to escape political interference and solve the problem of ignored infrastructure.
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Sustaining a Pariah State: Pakistan’s Ignominious Alliance in Afghanistan
The United Nations (UN) was born out of an idea for creating a society of nations, a global community, a brotherhood of nations built on a set of higher ideals. These ideals would give rise to a global village with accountability to each other, including social...
The Endemic Path is the Way Out
The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach. But his declaration, paraphrasing President...
American Exception
“Free speech matters because it works,” Mr. Silverglate continued. Scrutiny and debate are more effective ways of combating hate speech than censorship, he said, and all the more so in the post-Sept. 11 era.
What’s Green and Goes Pop?
The twin elements of a bubble are euphoria and roguery, with the proportions varying from case to case. The coming green bubble, which is already attracting large amounts of venture capital and government money, displays both.
Not Just A Breadbasket
Saskatchewan boasts the fastest economic growth rate of any Canadian province not just because of wheat but a rich mix of other farm crops as well as potash, uranium, oil and natural gas, all of which are enjoying record prices.
Why Oil Prices Will Tank
High-flying tech stocks crashed. The roaring housing market crumbled. And oil, rest assured, will follow the same path down. The longer prices stay stratospheric, the worse the eventual crash – simply because the higher the prices and bigger the profit margins, the bigger the incentive to over-produce.
An Arm And A Leg
“The overarching nonsense is the twin claim that the science of climate change is settled, and that it represents the greatest crisis facing the planet. Even more nonsensical is the assertion that economic self-mutilation might be good for us. This could soon deteriorate into all-out trade war, and/or sink beneath the deadweight of bureaucratic edict.”
Top 10 Health Care Lessons From Britain
While Canadian governments maintain a system that leaves their citizens without proper access to care, in the past four years the English have introduced innovations and reforms that have achieved spectacular reductions in waiting lists.
Birth Of A Behemoth
“Once we won and were in power, we realized that when the NDP had nationalized some of these industries it was just a huge negative signal to the rest of the world for investment,” he says. “So, to make a long story short, we said we’re open for business.”
Conrad Black On Equalization: McGuinty Is Right To Demand Its End
Dalton McGuinty is right. And to the limited extent that regional economic inequalities should be addressed other than by market forces, it should be from the general revenues of the federal government. Some provinces should not have to pay Danegeld to others, with Ottawa, collecting, redistributing and taking perennial credit for national self-preservation.
Rudd Puts Public Fat Cats On Notice
Australia’s PM Kevin Rudd has warned the nation’s top mandarins he is not afraid of privatising government services to slash spending or poaching private-sector staff to reinvigorate the public service.