A few bad apples or someone’s bad day doesn’t indict the rest of us, regardless of how we peg ourselves in some less-than-perfect ideological description.
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David MacKinnon Speaks on Taxation and the Economy
Listen to David MacKinnon speak about costs of Public Industry in Canada here. (30 minutes)
Everything That’s Old Is New Again
The good news is the old excuses for statist intervention are evaporating. It is time to rewrite the incentives, to reward hard work and to reap the reward demography offers.
Canada’s Downward Path From Nation To Fiction
The population of Quebec will shrink to barely one-fifth of Canada’s by 2031 – implying, according to economist Brian Lee Crowley in an important new book, “a big drop in the province’s relative weight in the House of Commons.” In fact, he calculates, Quebec’s influence will fall from 75 out of 308 MPs to 75 out of 375. The political implications would be profound.
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‘Side Issues’ Result in Much Higher Costs to Our Health and Social Systems
As we enter the year 2022, most Canadians will have lived their entire lives under the shibboleth that says we have the best health-care system in the world. Our beloved medicare is universal in scope, free of charge and offers equal access to all. What country could...
Touted Climate Emergency for Calgary is Deceitful and Undemocratic
Calgary has sworn in its first female mayor. A week earlier, less than 24 hours after winning the mayoral race, she gave her first post-election talk-radio interview to Ryan Jespersen, mostly involving a series of softball questions. He asked her the obligatory woke...
Rural Power and U.S. Elections
Robert Sopuck opines that rural America was the big winner in the U.S. presidential election
Israel’s Other Road Map
An Israeli politician considers rapid structural reform based on Rogernomics model from New Zealand.
Lessons of the Falling Wall
The Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain were the product of a philosophy that was based on good intentions, but could never deliver the goods.
The Republican Future
The Republican sweep is a watershed event in postwar history which portends a major intellectual shift in the war of ideas.
Moving Manitoba from a “Have Not” to a “Have” Province
Manitoba’s Liberal Party Leader suggests ways to improve the province’s economic prospects.
Canada Achieves Best Debt Rating
Fitch Ratings, the international rating agency, today upgraded Canada’s long-term foreign currency sovereign rating to ‘AAA’ from ‘AA+’, reflecting the continuation of budgetary surpluses and a record of robust GDP growth that have put government debt and external debt on a downward path.
Wirtschaftsflop
If Canada follows the same policies that led to German decline, it risks ending up in the same dilemma. One of the main influences that explains the reduced economic freedom is Germany’s high level of overall government spending.
Proportional Representation: a Permanent Bloc Effect
If you like the BQ, and want more of parties like it, and if you like minority government, you’re going to absolutely love PR.
Rethinking Red Light Cameras
Local governments all across the country are falling victim to the siren song of surveillance cameras to raise cash from lead-footed motorists.