Once again, the US presidential election has elevated Canadian health care—colloquially known as Medicare—as a role model. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed its many shortfalls and triggered a public debate over allowing private alternatives. A chief...
On my desk is a commemorative plate honouring the 1966 Grey Cup champions, the Saskatchewan Roughriders. On it are the pictures of football legend Ronnie Lancaster and his teammates. A quick scan of these portraits reveals something odd: just three of the players’...
The second-largest Ebola outbreak in history is over, but the sexual misconduct investigations regarding WHO’s aid workers in the Congo has just begun. The Congolese Ebola outbreak started in 2018 and was declared over on June 25, 2020. It had 3481 cases, 2299...
The Canadian Crown Corporation Financial Database allows citizens to easily access professional financial valuations of crown corporations throughout Canada. Despite most crown corporations' generally and persistently have dismal financial performance, many crown...
As of January 1, 2020, all applicants for permanent residence under an economic stream in Quebec must pass the “values test” to receive an attestation which is a condition of being granted a Selection Certificate. The test and an accompanying guide have been designed...
In February, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault told the press that the Canadian government had “no intention” of imposing licensing requirements on news organisations, and that they will not “try to regulate new content.” The clarification came after Guilbeault told...
The Globe and Mail thinks that census data confirm a Canadian distaste for suburban life. In fact, the data say just the opposite. The wealthier we get, the more our cities spread.
The referendum’s over, but where does the Wheat Board go to retrieve its honour? Its interference in the process demonstrates again that it is a renegade agency willing to use the people’s money to engage in special pleading.
Australian GDP per capita is now A$47,181. That’s about 40% higher than New Zealand’s A$33,682, at present market exchange rates. Even Tasmanians, their “Clean and Green” poor cousins, at only $35,253, are richer than New Zealanders. Western Australians, are the...
Martin Durkin’s new documentary puts the subsidized high-priests of manmade global warming on the run. Singer summarizes the film’s arguments.
Introduction If you have the good fortune to attend a conference on “The Sustainable Management of the Central Forests” or “The Sustainable Management of the Chatham Fisheries” you will listen to a fine collection of papers based on solid science and sound economics....
NIWA has applied the scary scenarios generated by the latest run of IPCC computer models to New Zealand. Having failed to predict the weather over Easter they now play safe by forecasting so far out none of us will be around to check them out. We need to be aware of...
We can order a book and have it delivered without ever going out the door. Yet access to primary healthcare is still a function of yesterday’s practices and technologies.
Politicians and central planners love to tell us: “If we want to reduce congestion we have to get people out of their cars and on to public transport." We now have ample evidence that attempts to reduce congestion by boosting public transport are doomed to fail. From...
We Greedy Oldies should be ashamed of ourselves. And the old boys and girls on our councils should be the most ashamed. These Councillors want to expand their empires, build their monuments, and save the planet. But they don’t want to send the bill to their ratepayers...