Buried in Manitoba Hydro’s website in the section describing new projects is the noble statement “It’s our generation’s turn to invest”. The investment being referred to is a $34-billion bet that two new hydroelectric dams ( Keeyask and Conawapa), the associated...
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The Future of Arts Funding
Technology has radically transformed many industries, from manufacturing and textiles to travel agencies or the entertainment business. Many have greatly suffered before accepting their fate and adapting to a new digital world. Now, the wider arts industry is in the...
Cities Can Improve Services by Freeing Employees to Compete
How should municipal services be delivered to citizens? The political right argues that outsourcing services is usually most efficient, while the left argues that “privatization” of services such as waste management or wastewater treatment would lead to lower quality...
Aboriginal Employment: The Power of Self-Help
"The best social program is a good job." - Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Unemployment is notoriously higher among Canadian Aboriginal people than among the general population. Some observers emphasize the need for better government programs of education, job...
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Ottawa Must Speak for All Sectors in All Regions
If only Ottawa would put its full force and support behind the energy sector as it does other critical sectors in the economy. In early October, the prime minister announced that he would not back down from the latest American round of attacks on our softwood lumber...
What to Do with a Pirate State
For centuries, Arab states across North Africa made fortunes from piracy. Raiding the coasts of Spain and Italy, scouring the Mediterranean, and ravaging into the Atlantic as far as Iceland, Barbary corsairs captured over a million Christian prisoners for their slave...
Never Mind Light Rail for Winnipeg
Feedback on Winnipeg’s transit plans – a citizen says fix the streets instead.
Smart Growth and the Ideal City
Economist Randal O’Toole explores the parallels between the visions of East German central planners and modern urban planners.
Equalization: Welfare Trap or Helping Hand
Brian Lee Crowley, President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, leads a seminar on equalization policy in Winnipeg, April 21, 2005.
Can Alberta Afford to be Rich and Stupid?
Balanced budgets have been the law in Alberta for nearly ten years. Now that the province has reached it debt-free goal, the questions are: “What’s next? Beyond balanced budgets and spending hikes, how does a wealthy government provide good government?”
Protect the Boreal Forest From Abundance?
Is Canada running out of trees? From the pages of the National Post, a remarkable exchange of opposing views.
The Digital Hospital
Hospital spending on information technology is expected to climb to $30.5 billion next year, from $25.8 billion in 2004,
Melbourne 2030: A Vision Far Too Timid
Across Australia, and to a lesser extent in urban areas outside, there is a rush to make the city more compact — urban consolidation it is called in Australia.
Flying Windmills
The next great energy technology may well be involve implausible-sounding machines called Flying Electric Generators, windmills 30,000 feet high and tethered to the ground by power lines. These windmills would capture the plentiful power in the strong, steady winds that blow in the jet stream
New Europe’s New Flat Taxes
Think back 20 years. Any suggestion that eastern and central Europe were desirable economic models came only from Western socialists, university professors and others with an eternal grudge against free markets. What a difference perestroika, McDonald's in Moscow, the...