“Toronto’s municipal strike is over. Some 30,000 garbage and other workers are back on the job. That’s at least 15,000 too many. If the strike has taught Torontonians anything, it’s that the city does precious little for its residents.”
Worth A Look
Where’s The Outrage Over High Milk Prices?
To realize how truly peculiar our milk thinking is, consider another crucial liquid in Canadians’ lives, this one black. When world oil prices fall and their decline is not instantaneously reflected at your local gas pump, the media, the man in the street and Liberal MP Dan McTeague all become apoplectic.
Northern Waters
We are indeed lucky to have some of the largest renewable freshwater reservoirs on the planet, even more so in comparison with our small population size. Elsewhere in the world, particularly among our neighbours to the south, people would be willing to pay considerable sums to access a small part of this water.
Want A Foreign Aid Miracle? Free Up The Economy
Throughout Africa today, income tax rates are often preposterous – and high goods-and-services taxes ubiquitous. Governments practise the worst kind of protectionism. Bureaucracies routinely smother enterprise. Jobs are commonly exchanged for bribes. International aid agencies, wallets still open, remain largely silent – or, worse, persist with empty denunciations of the wicked West. Africa doesn’t really need much foreign help. It does need an Erhard.
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Strike Before the Crumble
COVID-19 has left a gaping hole in Quebec’s healthcare system. Lack of nursing personnel, testing shortages, overflooding hospitals and postponed surgeries have turned Quebec’s healthcare into complete chaos. "We must invest in the health-care system, which is in the...
Let a Thousand Capital Markets Bloom
Alarm bells ought to be ringing in Canada. Business, industrial and foreign direct investment have performed pitifully over the past decade, with no reason to believe there will be a turnaround any time soon. As noted by Steven Globerman of Western Washington...
Iceland’s Tax Reduction Lesson for Canada
What's the best way to expand a welfare state, irrationally assuming for the moment that you want to expand a welfare state? Cut taxes. Especially cut corporate taxes. You will collect less revenue every time you nick a dollar but you will have many more dollars to...
The Cooling World
This cover story in the April 28th, 1975 issue of Newsweek worries about global cooling not warming.
Australia Rising
Speaking last week to the Queensland Media Club, Australian prime minister John Howard described the sort of world Australians would be living in a decade from now, and his vision of “an Australia rising to new heights” to meet its challenges. In a speech full of...
Continuing the Green Revolution
Persistent poverty and environmental degradation in developing countries, changing global climatic patterns, and the use of food crops to produce biofuels, all pose new and unprecedented risks and opportunities for global agriculture in the years ahead. Agricultural...
Ask Albania
For a lesson in pro-growth tax policy, may we suggest gazing east, to Albania.
Free Trade is Why Socialist Chile is Wealthy
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper lamented the rise of "repressive economics" in Latin America the other day, he cited specifically the class-warfare politics that we normally associate with deranged socialist states - such as, most flamboyantly, Venezuela....
Who’s Really ‘Sicko’
Former Winnipegger David Gratzer on Michael Moore’s film “Sicko.”
Honolulu Ranks Near Top in Housing Costs Survey
Honolulu is third-most expensive housing market among urban areas in the nation and in five other countries, according to a new survey. Honolulu's median multiple -- which calculates the median home price and median household income to rate affordability -- was 10.3,...
Campbell’s National Vision Laudable
Too bad Gordon Campbell is not bilingual. The British Columbia premier certainly has the sort of national vision required by a Canadian prime minister. Campbell may lack flash and be wanting in the charisma department. However, with a single quote last week at the...