WHEN the Obama administration finally unveils its proposal to get the economy on the road to recovery, the centerpiece is likely to be a huge increase in government spending. But there are ample reasons to doubt whether this is what the economy needs.
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Feeding On Their Own Failure
There is, however, a socially accepted industry that provides a product, the consumption of which actively increases the need for more. It is funded by Canadians through labour exploitation and taxation, and it is highly profitable.
Even Left Now Laughing At Global Warming
“The so-called ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is not holding up,” Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., told his colleagues Jan. 8. “It is becoming increasingly clear that skepticism about man-made global warming fear is not a partisan left vs. right issue.”
Leftist Couple’s Stance on Aboriginals Leaves Them in the Cold
In their living room, surrounded by posters of Vladimir Lenin and smiling, AK-toting Salvadorean guerilla girls, Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard hardly look like enemies of the Canadian Left. But in this country there are Things One Cannot Say; the most egregious...
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The Compelling Case for Selling Canada’s Water to the U.S.
Canada exports huge quantities of water to the United States and all over the world. As the world’s fifth largest exporter of agricultural products – which are composed mainly of water – huge amounts of Canadian water leave the country every day. Whole lakes are...
Rapidly Evolving Energy Innovation Makes Eco-Extremists’ Apocalyptic Predictions Suspect
A recent Globe and Mail story about a firm developing garbage-to-biodiesel technology shows how continuing progress makes the global warming extremists’ most hysterically apocalyptic predictions, and their extreme absolutist ‘solutions’, not only grossly wrong but...
It’s Going To Take More Than Money
The premiers can posture all they want about the need to honour the Kelowna accord, but unless and until Ottawa makes native leaders more accountable, $8-billion, $9-billion, $20-billion a year won’t solve native problems.
Socialism In Reverse
“All great ideas go through three stages. In the first stage they are ridiculed. In the second stage, they are strongly opposed. And in the third stage they are considered to be self-evident,” the philosopher Schopenhauer once observed. Privatization may not have reached stage three, but it’s getting there.
Higher Interest Rates And Lack Of Land Fuel The Flame To Just Go Bananas
It is so easy to blame governments – especially when they are, in fact, to blame.
Boots Will Open GP Clinics In Its Chemist Shops
The Department of Health in Britain announced proposals to let family doctors open clinics in chemists. The chemist will set up clinics across the country, with the first centres opening before Christmas in Boots stores.
Fear Trumps Reason in the Politics of Agriculture
Without subsidies, quotas, tariff protection and/or supply management, critics predicted nothing but misery for farmers. Exactly the reverse occurred, according to a paper prepared by David Harris for Australia’s Rural Industries Research and Development Corp
Cinderella’s Slipper — Fitting Reality to Immigration Policy
CANADA is running out of workers. It’s small wonder. Our birth rate is only three-quarters of the population’s replacement requirement. The baby boom generation that pretty much runs things is aging and approaching retirement. The economy is growing and needs more workers.
Brown’s Cash Blitz Is Hurting Poorest Areas
Record levels of spending have made many regions of Britain “colonies” of London and the southeast, widening the north-south divide, the research from Reform, a think tank, shows.
A Toll on the Common Man
On average, a 1% increase in the corporate-tax rate is associated with a 0.8% drop in wages over the next five years.
We Solve More Problems Than We Create
Mr. Lomborg is a realist. He doesn’t expect miracles from political leaders and bureaucrats, hoping instead for “getting it slightly less wrong.” An appropriately modest proposal from the skeptical environmentalist