Manitoba Hydro’s Keeyask dam and Bipole III debacle — and the taxpayers’ probable assumption of much of its horrendous debt — were not inevitable, but Crown corporations have vulnerabilities that are inherent with being government-created and -controlled. Risk begins...
Manitoba Hydro’s current management issues are only a tiny part of the problem that this poorly-run public utility faces. It’s debt load is expected to reach $25 billion, endangering the province’s finances, compelling budget cutting, and hurting economic...
Graham Lane, retired Chair of the Manitoba Public Utilities Board and expert advisory panel member of the Frontier Centre discusses the mass resignation of the Board of Directors of Manitoba Hydro. He is the author of the 2013 Frontier Centre paper Dam Nation –...
Keeping Sask Power and being compelled to throw in more billions of dollars to keep it viable, or having an additional 15,000 teachers, nurses, or paramedics? This is the choice Saskatchewan would have if this Crown asset were sold. There are two generally accepted...
Space exploration is fraught with a wide variety of hazards; solar storms could irradiate astronauts, collisions with small, unseen objects could cause instant death, and the acts of both leaving Earth and coming back are high risk maneuvers that involve high speeds...
Rhetoric is one thing; reality is another. As is becoming increasingly clear, the OECD’s July 1 proposal for a 15 per cent global minimum for corporate taxation is nothing of the sort. Although the awaited initiative slated for 2023 will not and cannot achieve a level...
As Canadian cities continue to grow, parking troubles will increase. Setting prices according to demand may be a sound technological solution.
The government should immediately remove any restrictions on competing companies who wish to move letter mail.
New software to be used with smart phones is poised to revolutionise the traditional taxi industry.
Ever-present smart phones are poised to transform the traditional taxi industry and rattle the regulations that currently govern it.
How long it takes for people to get to work is a more important measure to guide and improve urban transportation policy than the means by which one does, whether it is on foot, by bicycle, by bus, by train, or by car.
The coming ubiquity of Smart Phones will make the current infrastructure and regulations of the taxi industry irrelevant.
Smart phones promise to shake up the traditional taxi industry and the regulations governing it by creating a decentralised network of taxi dispatch.
I took the bus or drove to work for 20 years before moving to a neighbourhood served by LRT, and there’s no comparison. LRT is vastly superior.
The federal election has highlighted the need for transportation infrastructure in Canada’s Far North with the recent federal budget’s announcement of $150-million for an Arctic highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk.