Rather than use flat hourly rates for parking, Canadian cities need to set price according to demand, as technology is increasingly allowing this to happen.
Municipal Government
The Price is Right: The benefits of accurate pricing and smart technologies
As Canadian cities continue to grow, parking troubles will increase. Setting prices according to demand may be a sound technological solution.
Winnipeg Bounces Back – Deja Vu from 2000: The return of the NHL boosts a city’s morale but challenges remain
Winnipeg, the grande dame of Canada’s West, is thriving despite a persistently negative and frequently uninformed profile in the national media.
Not on the Frontier…
We answer a critical letter in the National Post.
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Raw-Milk Prohibition Reveals Policy Backwardness
Prohibitionists Dig In Heels for Supply Management, Ignore U.S. Success There is a legal way to consume raw milk in Canada: buy it in the United States and bring it home. Of the 13 states bordering Canada, 12 have legal raw milk. More than 40 have it legal in some...
The Pawlowski Decision
In the Alberta Health Services v. Artur Pawlowski and Dawid Pawlowski decision last September, a Court of Queen’s Bench justice found the two brothers in contempt of court. The Pawlowski brothers openly challenged health ordinances and court orders and did not deny...
A Conversation with Stephen Goldsmith
Privatization assumes that the private sector is inherently more effective and we determined that public value comes from competition and that private monopolies are not better than public monopolies. The competitive aspect drives value to the citizens.
Efficient Mosquitoes
Winnipeg is moving towards a single parking authority to eliminate overlaps and create efficiencies in parking management.
Capital Charge Magic Remedy for Winnipeg’s Downtown
Winnipeg can create strong incentives for its departments to use property assets better by requiring them to pay a capital charge on their market value.
Managed Competition – The Phoenix Experience
Under managed competition, a public agency competes with private sector firms to provide public agency functions and services. Managed competition attempts to create a “level playing field” between the public and private sectors to select the most cost effective method of delivering public services.
A Conversation with Ronald Jensen
Its primary element is competition, or managed competition, in which the city workforce competes with the private sector to deliver municipal services.
Winnipeg Quo Vadis (Where are you Going)?
The abandoned prairie farmhouse, the silent mill by the stream, the stone fence overgrown and hidden by forest are all popular poetic symbols for the decay in traditional rural values of hard work, family, and community.
Separation Key to Winnipeg Renewal
In Phoenix, civic politicians break the law if they interfere directly in the city’s administrative affairs.
Nostalgic Governments Face Cold Realities
Two years ago centre-left parties the world over were celebrating what looked like an electoral swing in their direction. Tony Blair’s convincing win in Britain in May 1997 was followed by Lionel Jospin’s in France, Gerhard Schroeder’s in Germany, the re-election of Jean Chretien in Canada, and a swing to the Democrats in the mid-term elections in the United States.
Low Expectations For Municipal Amalgamation In Ontario
When it comes to municipal restructuring, the Harris government has bought into the myth that having fewer and bigger municipalities is the answer. While this government deserves its share of the blame for jumping on the amalgamation bandwagon, the real advocates of having fewer and bigger municipalities are a group of civil servants in the Ontario public service.