The central North American region, known as Heartlandia, should build on strengths through a formalized cooperation mechanism.
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Media Release – More Jobs and Better Taxi Service
Market failure, regulatory failure, and how to make taxi markets function for more jobs and better service.
Something Rotten in the State of Winnipeg Taxi Market
After the disappointment of the Winnipeg Taxi Study, Senior Policy Analyst David Seymour takes a more imaginative look at the results of taxi deregulation in other countries.
Canada’s Wheat Cult
The CWB has become as much an economic cult as a Crown marketing agency. So it is never going to admit it is a drag on farmers or the West. But at some point taxpayers have to wake up to the fact that they are subsidizing Western farmers to the tune of $1-billion or more a year and they wouldn’t have to if the federal government would simply make marketing grain through the board optional, rather than compulsory.
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
Canadian Wheat Board Directors Interested in Power, not Farmers
CWB directors, who are now challenging the recent freeing of the barley market in court, appear to be driven by an unwavering commitment to the notion they alone know what is best for all farmers, and they are willing to say and do anything to preserve their positions of power and control.
Wheat Board Accused of Costing Farmers Millions in Lost Revenue
A report from a conservative think-tank says the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk marketing system is costing prairie farmers hundreds of millions of dollars a year in lost revenue.
Kim Sigurdson, Businessman and Aboriginal Advocate
Frontier’s conversation with Kim Sigurdson
CWB Price Premium Myth
Competition would dramatically raise the prices farmers are currently receiving thereby enabling them to effectively compete in the global marketplace.
Barley, Free at Last
Except for a few sticks-in-the-mud, no one doubts any longer that Prairie farmers want choices in how they market their barley. By restoring dignity and property rights to growers, the new policy will bring clear benefits, not least a declaration that, when it comes...
Wheat Board Wants Ports, Elevators if Told to go it Alone in Barley Market
The Canadian Wheat Board says the federal government will have to help it buy port facilities and grain elevators - or let it abandon the barley market altogether - if farmers vote to eliminate the board's monopoly. Chairman Ken Ritter said the board of directors has...
Rolf Penner Vs. The CWB On Marketing Choice
The federal Minister of Agriculture told the Canadian Wheat Board to stick to its job and stay out of grain politics. If the Board chooses to interfere anyway, couldn’t it at least get its facts straight?
John De Pape, Market and Business Consultant
The Canadian Wheat Board maintains that its monopoly on marketing barley adds value to the crop. The author of the famous Sparks barley study begs to differ.
Dr. Al Loyns, Agricultural Economist
A pioneer in the fight for marketing freedom for farmers, Al Loyns lays out the case for removing the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly and explains why the agency is likely to survive the transition.