Downtown Calgary is a big deal (see photo below and photos following the text). Traditional American and Canadian downtown areas (central business districts or CBDs) are a holdover from the pre-auto era. Their geographical limits were largely set by the early Great...
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Impeachment Trial: Eyewitness to a Charade
Adela Cortina, one of the most important moral philosophers in Spain, and a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences notes that corruption— etymologically related to the idea of “destruction”—is encouraged by the weakening of the so-called internal...
Does Short Selling Sell Us Short?
Paraphrasing a remark by American philosopher Nicholas Murray Butler in 1931, John Newbern once said: “People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.” Each of those classes is...
The Marxist Playbook Hasn’t Changed
“We will take America without firing a shot,” said Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of Soviet Russia from 1958 to 1964. The Soviet Union may have vanished, but old Marxist strategies are still being implemented. The 1969 lecture “More Deadly Than War: The Communist...
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Let’s be Realistic about Physical Distancing in Schools
These days, grocery shopping looks a little different than usual. People wait patiently outside the store in long, spaced-out, lineups. Direction arrows show customers where to move next. Customers stand at least 6 feet apart in the checkout lines. Cashiers carefully...
City Management 201: A COVID-19 Lesson for City Planners
As of now, Indigenous communities have been spared from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, although some health officials cautioned that the next two weeks will be important to see the extent of the outbreak in Indigenous communities. Unless that state of affairs...
Governments Sleepwalking Into Water Crisis
Governments, if they are not careful, are allowing communities to sleep walk towards a water supply crisis. Governments are not dealing with long term supply needs and are potentially jeopardizing the future economic prospects of rural communities.
The American Dream: Alive and Well (Some Places)
Levittown, and the automobile-oriented urban expansion it foreshadowed, resulted in the greatest democratization of prosperity in history. Wherever mass suburbanization occurred – whether in the United States, its first world cousins Canada and Australia, Western Europe or later even Japan – we have seen the unprecedented rise of a mass property-owning class. Generally, where land regulation has remained reasonable, new houses can be purchased for less than three times median household incomes.
What Saved the Bloc Quebecois in the 2008 Election: Public Money
Over the past several decades, there have been several key changes to how Canada’s federal political parties are funded. The most recent and significant changes took effect in 2004 with federal legislation (Bill C-24, passed in 2003) which banned corporate and union donations.
Once Again, Canadian Taxpayers Bankroll Quebec’s Separatists
The shocker here is the Bloc Québécois, which received almost 12 times as much public financing as private financing in the 2007-2008 period. No other party even reaches the 3:1 level.
Media Release – What Saved the Bloc Quebecois in the 2008 Election: Public Money
Winnipeg/Calgary: The Frontier Centre today released its analysis of public financing for Canada’s federal political parties between 2000 and 2008. The backgrounder was based on Elections Canada data and also estimates for public financing as it applies to election reimbursements for the 2008 election.
Following Europe’s Lead on Climate Change
Environmentalists, journalists and politicians say tough climate legislation is a moral imperative. Global warming science is settled, the United States is out of step with other nations, America must follow Europe’s lead to prevent climate chaos. It’s great rhetoric. But which European lead should we follow? And how is it morally responsible to enact climate legislation that kills jobs and punishes families and businesses, to reduce global temperatures by perhaps 0.2 degrees?
Good Intentions, Green Policies, and the Poor
Escalating fuel costs harm the poor disproportionately, acting as a de facto regressive tax. Thus, American families at the median income level pay 5% of each household dollar for energy costs, and families with lower incomes spend 20% of household funds on energy, while households under the poverty line see fully half of their budget spent on gas, heating, and other fuel costs.
Niger Innis, Congress of Racial Equality
Niger Innis is Co-Chair of the Alliance to Stop the War on the Poor and the National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, one of the oldest African-American anti-poverty groups. It was founded in 1942 as one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement in the United States. Its national Headquarters is located in New York City.
Corporate Canada’s Ladies of the Night
Emergency bailouts are akin to firemen breaking into a house to save its inhabitants, douse the flames and prevent its collapse; they don’t justify similar subsidies to everyone.