By removing the influence of government on their operations, the sector is now better able to base its decisions on sound business practices, rather than political expediency.
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Smart Growth Bill Repealed
“Decisions about the growth of communities should be made by local governments closest to the people living and working in these areas. Local governments can already adopt “smart growth” policies based on the desires of the community without a state-led effort that endorses such planning. This legislation would promote a one-size-fits-all approach to land use and planning that would not work across a state as large and diverse as Texas.”
Neither Charity Nor Bulldozers Prevent Slums
The root cause of slums is not unexpected population growth or shortage of land: It is a double plague of a lack of property rights and poor planning policies — from Kenya to Brazil.
American Capitalism Gone With A Whimper
The proud American will go down into his slavery without a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
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International Corporate Tax-Rate Fixing Will Bind Canada, Limit Choices and Harm Growth
The finance ministers of over 130 nations and territories have arrived at a tentative agreement that will create a tax floor—a minimum corporate tax rate of a proposed 15 per cent. Its proponents, including Ottawa, sadly, claim it will create a “level playing field”...
Ontario Vaccine Mandate Does not Address Concerns of Human Safety
Starting September 7th, 2021, the Ontario government required all workers in high-risk settings to either take the COVID-19 vaccine, provide a medical reason for refusing vaccination or undergo regular testing and education. This includes workers in healthcare,...
Let Rural Parents Fund their Own Charter Schools
Countless memorials to a Prairie institution – the one-room schoolhouse – dot the highways and back roads of rural Manitoba. These bygone institutions, where thousands of Manitoba children learned how to read, write and do basic arithmetic, slowly disappeared as...
China Bars Corn Ethanol Due to High Food Costs
China has just banned further expansion of its corn ethanol industry, after a radical 43-percent increase in pork prices over the past year. Xu Dingming of the Chinese National Energy Leading Group told a recent seminar that “Food-based ethanol fuel will not be the...
The Think-Tanks that Miss the Target
Brussels badly needs a far more open debate about ideas but it lacks the vibrant ideas infrastructure found in the United States.
Cash-addicted Atlantic premiers want equalization even if their provs become “haves”
Recently Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams and Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald have been complaining that the federal government has broken the Atlantic accord on equalization payments. The federal Conservatives' Atlantic MPs have been on the verge of a caucus...
Resist Hysteria
We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough — irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6% — for the environmentalists and their followers to suggest radical measures to do...
Top Doc Labels NDP’s Layton a Hypocrite
Sought treatment at private clinic
Confessions of a Global Warming Heretic
Television and newspapers are filled with warnings about the dire consequences of global warming. For instance, in each of two recent consecutive issues of the Leader-Post (June 5 and 6), there were three stories related to this subject. We are told that, over the...
Busybody Politicians, Get Off our Backs
In pursuit of their vision of the perfect world, politicians justify even absurd restrictions on our freedom.
Canada Lags Behind G7 Howe Report Says
Alberta shines in study of capital spent on upgrades