Last year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published research showing that the middle-class is shrinking throughout the developed world. In Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle-Class, OECD emphasized that the threat to the middle-class...
New Brunswick’s failed attempt to remove vaccine exemptions sparked a political, ethical, and constitutional controversy. The benefits of the bill were marginal at best, but the heavy-handed tactics governments attempted to use to implement it were even worse. It was...
It’s easy to forget that at the beginning of the year, Canada was right in the middle of another crisis triggered by a series of protests over a natural gas pipeline being built through northern B.C. The issue of Indigenous reconciliation was front and centre in our...
The current Prime Minister recently publicly contradicted RCMP Commissioner, Brenda Lucki, for saying there is no systemic racism within the RCMP. Actually, Lucki said she didn’t know what “systemic racism” is. In her words, “I have to admit, I really struggle with...
William Styron’s brilliant novel “Sophie’s Choice” has a mother forced by the Nazis to make a terrible choice - choose which child will live and which will die. Now, COVID-19 choices are just as unsettling. In Italy’s hospitals doctors must decide which patients are...
When professors around the country were busy figuring ways to deliver their classes online, two faculty members at the University of Alberta wrote a letter and enlisted the endorsement of some 200 of their leisured colleagues at 33 universities in Canada. A crisis...
Legislative framework is more important than personality in achieving high peformance city government.
Saskatchewan has nothing to lose by leading a discussion on transformational equalization, whose goal is to make recipient provinces self-sustaining and dynamic economies.
The Province of Manitoba’s policy of “power at cost” is harmful to the people of Manitoba, to Manitoba Hydro and to the environment.
Programs in Florida and Utah that offer the parents of special needs students a choice between special programming and mainstreaming are proving superior to policies directed by political correctness.
Winnipeg’s Perimeter Highway is outdated in design, un-safe for drivers plus it could bestagnating the economy. What’s holding the provice back from updating it to freeway standards?
Current methods of certifying teachers are not able to meet coming shortages. An alternative certification pioneered in New Jersey offers a way out.
Executive Summary Winnipeg is the only major urban area in the developed world without freeways. Although they are unpopular with some urban planners, freeways not only reduce congestion and pollution, they make cities more efficient in economic terms. In its current...
Well intended equalization keeps Manitoba in a “have not” province purgatory
A Wheat Board plebiscite at best will accomplish nothing and at worst derail the Conservatives’ promise of marketing choice even as it alienates their Western base.