Last week the city of Regina held a public meeting about Rooming Houses in the city. The meeting is part of a wider process the council is going through to try to address the dramatic housing shortage the city faces. There have been concerns from some communities,...
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Taxis’ Fare Road to Profit: Restricted supply has inflated value of vancouver licence to $800,000
Gary Tarantino owns arguably the most valuable taxi in Vancouver, in an industry already known for its breathtakingly high licence values. Tarantino’s Licence 70384 could easily command more than $1 million in a business where the average Vancouver taxi costs $800,000. That’s because he is the last holdout of independent taxi owners in an industry where all of the other 687 licences are held by the city’s four taxi companies.
Mr. Suzuki’s Baseless, Irresponsible Immigration Claims
Imagine there was a policy that could reduce global poverty, conserve natural resources and help alleviate the coming retirement crisis, all while also fostering domestic economic growth. You would have to be either misinformed or malicious to oppose this policy, right? Well, this policy exists, and it’s called immigration.
Ironically, “progressive” hero David Suzuki has come out in favour of reducing immigration levels, only to be met with opposition from Conservative Minister of Immigration, Jason Kenney, who defended the value of immigration to Canada.
Public Transit is Better, but Cars Are Faster
Transit may be the better way, but it is certainly not the faster one. The latest data from Statistics Canada has revealed the most avoided truth about commuting: Transit commutes are 81-per-cent longer than those by car.
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Canada’s Anti-Employment Insurance: Jobs Need Not Be Shackled by Policy Relics
The complexity and perverse incentives of Canada’s Employment Insurance (EI) program are an eyesore on the nation’s economy. Rather than open the economy up to modernity, however, reforms approved by the Senate on March 17 (Bill C-24) increase EI generosity and...
Canada Racist? Only its Government
Canada has always prided itself on being one of the most open and least racist countries in the world. This view may not have always been true, particularly with regard to our past immigration policies, which only became colour neutral in the 1960s. But since then,...
Bill 13 – Mainstreaming Mania
New provincial regulations on special education shatter the myth of local control.
Murderous London is like old New York
It was James Q Wilson’s now legendary “broken windows” hypothesis which stated that when a neighbourhood, or a city, had become rundown and uncared-for – when its buildings and trains were covered in graffiti, its streets strewn with rubbish, and its youth allowed to indulge in flagrant displays of delinquent bravado – a climate was created in which serious crimes such as murder and robbery could run amok.
Climate Experts Respond to Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
A distinguished group of climatologists disputes alarms about manmade global warming.
Dr. Tim Ball, Historical Climatologist
Is manmade global warming a problem for Canada? Think again. It’s cooling we should be worrying about.
World to Suffer: Aging/Declining Population
The world is not in danger of overpopulation as has been feared, but rather declining population.
Crushing Britain’s Rural Minority
The Labour Government in the United Kingdom is banning the fox hunt. There are implications for broader policy.
Public Education – a National Asset We can Exploit?
Manitoba and other Canadian provinces are working with international students and their governments to bring Canadian education to developing countries and other nations.