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What is the impact of the Act to Amend the Indian Act and to Provide for its Replacement (Bill C-428)?
The Indian Act is an outdated and paternalistic law that impedes economic progress for First Nations communities across Canada. Fortunately, positive policy reform may be on the way. Recently, Saskatchewan MP Rob Clarke introduced a private member’s bill (Bill C-428)...
What is the 21st Century’s Worst Public Policy Idea?
I would like to start a contest and receive nominations for the worst public policy idea anyone has heard of this century (I say this century to make it somewhat palatable since the 20th century is so full of bad ideas). In any case, regardless of whether the contest...
Exporting Oil to the US – What is the Long Term Goal?
Is it possible that in the long term, refining will need to occur closer to the source of inputs and away from populated centres?
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
What NB’s Premier Is Saying With His Motion On Land Claims
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is essentially saying “We don’t trust you” in the motion he introduced to protect New Brunswick property owners from a massive indigenous land claim. He is saying it to the indigenous politicians who are bringing the claim, to the...
How’s Your Experience Dealing with Federal Government Departments?
Since the change of federal government in 2015, the size of the Federal Civil Service has increased by 40%. This has occurred at the same time that massive investments have been made on IT projects, with the intent of making the civil service more efficient and...
The Opioid Crisis Reflects a Failure of Public Policy: It’s Time to Move On
What is the end goal for a policy that deals with drug addiction? That’s the key question that political leaders and societal stakeholders should be considering as they announce ever more alarming initiatives in an attempt to limit the number of drug-overdose deaths...
Etam: Net Zero 2050?
Serious goal-setting seems like a very good way to torment oneself, creating a new reason out of thin air. My New Year’s resolution is to avoid setting goals. Type A is not my type. But maybe it’s time to turn over a new leaf. I’ve decided I don’t want to be a...
The Ghost of Ancient Rome Haunts America
The death of Ancient Rome wasn’t so much a collapse as a slow, interminable decay: between the second and sixth centuries AD, its population declined from a million people to just 30,000. Since then, 15 centuries have passed and thousands of cities have been built....
Etam: When Science gets Mugged for the Media – a Case Study
I walked past a truck in a parking lot the other day and I figured out what’s wrong with everybody. It was a good-looking new semi-small one, and, walking with my head down, watching for ice and muttering as usual, I almost walked into the side of it. There, staring...
Leaders on the Frontier – The State of Energy in Canada and the World
Our Topic: The State of Energy in Canada and the World. Affordable, dependable, reliable and secure energy has always been critical to Canada's prosperity and quality of life. What is the state of energy in Canada and the world when so many political and media elites...
Why Did So Many Institutions Fail?
I’ve spent the better part of three years trying to figure out a central question. Why did so many individuals and institutions fail to protect our rights and liberties and thus set our country and the entire Western world on the path to decline? The failure was grave...
Leaders on the Frontier – The State of Energy in Canada and the World.
Our Topic: The State of Energy in Canada and the World.