The weight of evidence argues for opening up the taxi market to competitive delivery, and reducing regulation to safety, customer service and the dispatch system. Winnipeggers deserve a taxi service that the status quo is not delivering and that fine-tuning a failed model will not provide.
Worth A Look
Privatize Liquor Stores: Liberals
“I see us going in the direction of evaluating the government’s role in our economy,” he said. “Where’s the government providing goods that are public goods and where are they intruding unnecessarily in the economy? So I do suspect we will be evaluating the role of a lot Crown corporations and a lot entities like that,” he said.
The Dirty Truth
Carbon capture and storage, as these schemes are known, is misguided environmentally, economically, and in the long term, politically too. Carbon capture has only one virtue: It solves short term political problems for both leaders.
Green Cities, Brown Suburbs
Thoreau was wrong. Living in the country is not the right way to care for the Earth. The best thing that we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers.
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Interest Rates do not Merely Parallel Inflation Upward—the Inflation Risk Premium can Escalate too
It is not entirely clear whether the Canadian and the global economies are heading for a new inflationary era. It may turn out that inflation is not only elevated from recent negligible levels, but escalates, steadily at first, and then dramatically, as it did in the...
CUSMA the New NAFTA: Boon or Bane For Canada?
In 1994, the United States, Mexico and Canada created a free-trade region with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Considering the fact that the USA is the largest economy in the world (from 1994 to present), NAFTA was a true asset for the Canadian...
Public Auto Insurance Drives Up Costs
Findings from a study published by The Fraser Institute regarding the cost and affordability of auto insurance around the world and right here in our own country.
The Leadership Myth
Regardless of whether political leadership is wise or mediocre, our goal should be to limit the damage that public officials can do.
Aliens Cause Global Warming
Best selling author Michael Crichton’s devastating critique of man-made global warming theory.
Heath Care Costs Reach Tipping Point
With Canada’s current spending practices, health care will be taking all of the provincial revenue within a few decades. Is it time to explore new funding options?
‘Lotto 10-40’ and the Decline in Jobs
A new study compares the history of unemployment in New Brunswick and Maine. Sharing the same borders, resources and economy should there be any drastic differences in their unemployment rates?
Katz Goes With Traffic Flow
Mayor Sam Katz plans to synchronized traffic signals to help decrease Winnipeg’s stop and go traffic.
A Little Friendly Talk About Alberta Separatism
The three main resolutions passed called for Ottawa staying out of provincial affairs, a reformed Senate and an effective counterbalance to activist courts.
Secondary Suites Make Good Sense
Reducing regulations on secondary suites is a smart way to increase affordable housing supply
Alberta “Rednecks” Produce Brainy Students
Other provinces and states are looking to Alberta’s education system for some guidance of their own.