“Drugs, prostitution and illegal gambling are all activities that bring harm in many instances to individuals, families and communities and many feel they are immoral. But, one needs to look at the unintended consequences of prohibiting all these activities. People will always want to do these things and criminals often reap the benefits because they can provide them at exorbitant prices and people will still pay.”
Role of Government
Too Smart For Our Own Good:: How The “Best and Brightest” May Hurt Society
Intellectuals have distorted the debate or advocated poor policy because of their lack of knowledge of the concrete consequences of their ideas, this according to a new book from Thomas Sowell.
Zero Budget Growth
“Over the past hundred years, government has grown to gigantic proportions. It intervenes in almost every aspect of our lives.”
‘Compassion Knows No Ideological Bounds’ is true
Feedback to Mark Milke’s Compassion Has No Ideological Litmus Test Policy Note.
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Trust is the Foundation of Authority
The heartbreaking death of Nathanael Spitzer, the cancer-stricken boy from Ponoka, exposed a most callous streak in Alberta’s medical bureaucracy. There is no forgiving how Alberta Health Services appallingly used a child’s death to promote yet more COVID-19 fear. ...
Apple’s “Security” Pitch Conveniently Protects the iOS-Android Duopoly
In October, Apple Inc. warned that draft rules from the European Union that would require the technology company to open up its mobile operating system to third-party apps would pose a security risk to its users. Expanding on comments already made by CEO Tim Cook, a...
McGuinty’s Ottawa Revelation
Ontario’s premier has got good grounds to complain about equalization. But why did he need sixteen months to figure out Ottawa rips off Ontario (and Alberta)?
Feeding the Giant Patronage Machine
The truth about foreign aid: For more than half a century, it has been either ineffective or counterproductive in stimulating prosperity.
The High Risk of Poor Policy
On Canada’s federal policy vacuum.
UK climbs rich list
BRITAIN has pulled further ahead of its rival economies in Europe in a league table of living standards in the world’s richest countries
On the Nanny State
A poignant anonymous counter-point to an increasingly out of control nanny state.
Libya looks to Canada for path to modernity
Libya tries to move away from its socialist, central planning model.
Labour plans power for the people
Expanding choice is about enhancing equity and opportunity, not undermining it according Alan Milburn, New Labour Cabinet Minister.
Government Should Stay Out of Our Snacks
If people want to eat foods that contain trans fats, they must have that freedom. And if they want to ignore warnings about trans fats, they must have that freedom, too.
Law of the Labour Back Benches
Some say “modernisation” is an empty term. It is not. It means creating left-of-centre policies that allow more effective responses to the changes transforming contemporary societies. The Nordic social democrats, and new Labour in Britain, have been in the vanguard of such modernisation.