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).
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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.
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Why Cash Is Still King in Switzerland
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Climate Alarmist Quits British Government
Sir Nicholas Stern, author of a controversial report on the effect of global warming on the global economy, resigned his position as second permanent secretary in the British treasury department after the government essentially ignored his call for drastic action.
Using the Environment to Save the Market
Conservatives’ efforts to convince Canadians they’re serious about global warming continue, with results that are best described as pyrrhic. Media reports on each new Tory environmental initiative — which is to say each old Liberal environmental initiative — are...
Somewhere, Milton Is Smiling
Utahns win a hard-fought victory for school choice.
Why You Should Vote for Choice in Marketing Barley
Early in 2007, the federal Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food held a referendum among barley farmers that asked them to make one of three choices about their preference for the future marketing of the crop. This opinion piece appeared in the ballot package in support of one of those choices.
If Climate Change is Real, Tell Us What to do About it
There has been much debate over whether climate change is real or not. Seems like people are just talking in circles rather than putting a firm action plan into placc.
A Climate of Bunk and Hysteria
Activists untrained in the field are as entitled as anyone to express their opinions about climate science, but we need to take what they say with a rather large grain of salt.
The Power of Vested Interests vs The Power of Productivity
I received a generous letter from the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum this week telling me I had been selected as a Young Global Leader 2007 by an international jury presided over by Queen Rania of Jordan. A friend of mine joked that I am now "a dupe of...
Much Hot Air About Global Warming
If Canadians truly believe greenhousegas emissions now threaten the future of the planet, they would give up their SUVs and their 3,000-square-foot vacation pads in Whistler, Muskoka and Canmore.
Environment Watchdog Fired
The federal government’s environment watchdog is being replaced months after launching a scathing review of Ottawa’s record, and pleading for urgent action on climate change.