Preston Manning: Competence and ability, not ideology, should be the core criteria for hiring civil servants
Core Public Sector Reform
Emperors Of Woke Have No Clothes and Conservatives Should Say So
Why do Conservatives go along with woke ideas, woke norms and above all woke people? One of these days we're going to be really sorry we didn't stand up to this nonsense, when the proverbial little boy calls out that the emperor has no clothes. Men can be women?...
Wab’s Harsh Realities
It is but a few days before the New Year, and it has been only three months since the NDP became Manitoba’s provincial government. The recent election was much tighter than many people thought. The NDP won with just 4% more votes than the PC’s tally. And, the...
Canada’s Lost Decade
In the 1980’s, the world was infatuated with Japan. Its economy was on fire and was projected to overtake the USA as the world’s number one economy by the year 2000. That came to a grinding halt in the 1990’s as the Japanese stock market collapsed and economic...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
The Left Loses Badly Down Under
New Zealand’s high-tax, pro-lockdown party is smashed at the polls.
Manitoba’s Larger Public Sector
Manitoba public sector still much larger than Canadian average
Manitoba PCs Deserve Another Mandate
I have good news for commentators who say Manitobans will be sick, stupid, and broke if this tax-cutting PC government is re-elected: they’re wrong. The unadjusted StatsCan numbers for August 2023 prove it. As a total percentage of wages and salaries, Manitoba pays...
A Time For Radicalism
The word radicalism scares people, but the etymology is quite plain. It means getting back to the root—from the Latin radix. It carries no necessary ideological connotation. It merely means to wipe away the fluff, cruft, and baloney and speak about what matters. It...
No, Trump Is Not Planning To Be A Dictator
The headline in the New York Times seems terrifying. “Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025.” The article explains that they “are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to...
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Where Activist Judges Play Fast & Loose With The Rule of Law
Competence, Not Size, Determines The Ideal Cabinet
For many years past, and probably many to come, fiscal conservatives have told governments to have small cabinets. Let’s face it–it’s a symbolic gesture at best and the last place where saving money should be a factor. Effectiveness should be our goal, not...
Ignore More Privatization Hysteria from Special Interests
Manitobans deserve access to quality health care – not fear and misinformation from union-funded interests. This past week, the province announced the expansion of a partnership with Winnipeg-based Cerebra Medical to provide access to at-home sleep disorder...
Leaders on the Frontier: America’s Turmoil will be Canada’s Strife with Jeffrey Tucker
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