To me, the message that has to be learned by the PC brain trust is that they have to offer an option for people to vote for instead of voting against.
Municipal Government
It’s not easy to defeat Leviathan
It is not easy to trim back outgrowths of the state beast.
Council Tackles Shortage of Taxis: Major overhaul aims to ease difficulty getting late-night ride
City hall is contemplating a major overhaul of late-night cab and public transit service in Calgary, as holiday revellers com-plain they are being squeezed by a “perfect storm” of travel hindrances.
Common Sense in Municipal Budgets
One of the presenters in the Toronto municipal budget consultations came up with well reasoned, solid advice.
Featured News
Military Conquest is Meaningless Without True Social Renewal
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
What Life Looks Like Outside COVID-19 Hysteria
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
Winnipeg’s Perimeter Highway: Disaster by Design
Executive Summary Winnipeg is the only major urban area in the developed world without freeways. Although they are unpopular with some urban planners, freeways not only reduce congestion and pollution, they make cities more efficient in economic terms. In its current...
Time to Get Real about Transit
It is time for policy-makers to level with the public about transit. People are not going to sacrifice more than three hours a week to travel by work to transit. There will never be sufficient funding to make transit competitive to much more than downtown.
City Doesn’t Know What It Owns
FROM pools to police stations, the city's 1,100 buildings are haphazardly managed and likely costing taxpayers more than they should, according to a new report by the city auditor. There are so many overlapping departments trying to manage facilities, the city isn't...
Reinventing Winnipeg
The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce’s vision statement for remaking civic government contains some useful suggestions.
Frequently Asked Questions About Water/Wastewater Privatization
Privatized water and wastewater systems have excellent track records for maintaining environmental and health standards.
Will “Sweep” Tactics Reverse Winnipeg’s Declining Police Effectiveness?
The City of Winnipeg’s Police Service, strong on resources and manpower but short on results.
Tax Me Out to the Ballgame
Art Modell, owner of the NFL Baltimore Ravens, observed during one of his struggles to get local taxpayers to build him a stadium that “The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries, and I say that with all due respect...
Winnipeg’s History of Money Bylaws
The use of direct democracy can put a check on the ambition of politicians even as it speeds the progress of improvements and keeps city taxes affordable.
Let A Plebiscite Decide Stadium Issue
Winnipeg’s history of money bylaws allowed a lot of common sense into the decision-making process, and therefore kept civic spending on gradiose projects in check.