First, some background. In 1969, the federal government passed the Freshwater Fish Marketing Act (FFMA). The FFMC created a federal Crown corporation that acted as the sole buyer of freshwater fish caught in western Canada, northern Canada, and parts of northern...
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The Rhetorical Extolment of Community Policing: An unintended revelation into the culture of police leadership.
It’s been disconcerting to watch the state of police-community relations south of the border deteriorate into mass protests, violent confrontations, and the tragic abuses of police powers recorded on video for everyone to see. It’s easy to become a little smug given...
Screw the West, We’ll Take the Rest
An infamous quote (“Screw the west, we’ll take the rest”) from then Liberal organizer Keith Davey during the 1980 election drove Albertans’ bumper stickers saying “let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark”. Pierre Trudeau and his notorious National Energy Program...
A Made-in-Canada Judicial Nominations Process
Back in 2018, the world watched as United States Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh was subjected to one those most politicized public trials in recent history. Many believed that sexual assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford was manipulated for partisan...
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Obliterating History a very bad Idea
Winnipeg’s Mayor is determined to pursue his name game; renaming, removing, and rewriting history. Among his targets is Bishop Grandin Boulevard - the Mayor doesn’t like Bishop Grandin’s attitudes. If he succeeds, the next logical renaming would be St. Vital - also...
COVID-19 and the Labour Market
Following employment losses of over one million in March, employment fell by nearly two million in April as the impacts of physical distancing and economic shutdowns on labour market activity became more apparent. Over one half of the employment losses in April were...
Public Transport in Auckland
Auckland has a long tradition of making wrong decisions about public transport and several recent announcements indicate we are maintaining this tradition. Auckland is not entering new or unknown territory. A multitude of cities overseas have explored diverse...
Applying “Systems Intelligence” to Transport
Part A of a three part written presentation to the Annual Land Transport Summit, 2007
Halle-Neustadt – the “Sustainable City”
A chilling look at the “sustainable city” Halle-Neustadt, is a bedroom community built between 1964 and 1990 for about 100,000 people on the outskirts of the manufacturing city of Halle, in East Germany.
Select Committee to consider Housing Affordability
Commerce Select Committee to hold an enquiry into Housing Affordability
Alternatives to Smart Growth
In recent times we need to ask why Smart Growth carried the day for so long
The New Zealand Resource Management Act
For many centuries, the Anglo-American tradition has emphasized the fiduciary duty of all those who manage other people’s assets and affairs, such as trustees and directors. This fiduciary duty imposes a higher duty of care on such people, than on the ordinary person....
Natives Don’t Want Self-Rule Under Existing System
Manitoba’s “Framework” for transferring power from Ottawa to First Nations has met with an ignominious and well-deserved collapse. The people don’t trust the process.
Infusion Clinics Benefit Patients
Many Canadian cities now house “infusion clinics,” where individuals can bypass bureaucrats and purchase promising IV treatments out of their own pockets.
Manitoba’s Equalization Shell Game
It is by challenging one of Canada’s defining programs, however, one from which Manitoba is a primary beneficiary, that the contrariness of the FCPP is most remarkable.