Seven months since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, against evidence and common sense, media, elected officials, and health experts continue peddling the panic that gripped them in March. Almost daily, headlines in the first week of October announced new records in...
“... if it was not so serious Espanola’s declaration or whatever it is would be laughable, but it is not alone … So few realize if this .. continues some years from now it will be used in some claim.” -Retired Supreme Court Justice Jack Major. The...
The year is not yet over, and Calgary has already recorded 26 homicides, six more than in 2019. Edmonton has witnessed a 90 percent spike in assaults with weapons or causing bodily harm. Unbelievably, rather than tackling this escalating violence head-on, officials...
Two centuries ago, clergyman Thomas Malthus expounded the proposition that population always outruns food supply. He said population increases geometrically while food supply increases, at best, only arithmetically. Half a century ago the Green Revolution, enabling...
In his policy paper “Learning from the Nordic Sami Model”, Joseph Quesnel asks whether the current approach to solving the serious problems faced by Canadian Aboriginals is the right one. For the last half-century, courts and governments in this country have...
Several of you have responded asking why the Permitted Baseline Test is so important,� or have asked for more information as to what it is and how it works. It seems to me that the permitted baseline test provides a useful "litmus" test as to whether a planning...
Bryan Southcombe died on 7th March, aged 69, and my wife and I attended his funeral and the après funeral on March 14th. While much of the day focused on personal memories I found myself pondering the way the world had changed during the expansive and remarkable “Life...
New Zealand has a long history of taking leading edge positions on public policy issues, and has a proud tradition of leading political and social change. More recently, especially during the term of the fourth Labour Government, New Zealand was a world leader in...
Introduction This is only a brief commentary as it would take many days to work through the strategy and comment comprehensivly on it. I have therefore concentrated on what I believe to be the major shortcoming in the strategy and then on various aspects on which I...
First, I should briefly state my position on the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Climate change is natural and has been going on since the earth was first formed. Rapid change in climate represents a genuine threat along with pandemics, nuclear war, tsunamis...
Rodney Dickens, writes the “Rodney’s Ravings” newsletter, one of which was reprinted in the Mangawhai Memo of 22nd February. Rodney is a highly competent analyst and his “Ravings” provide useful commentaries which are highly valued by those of us who consume such data...
American economist Indur Goklany has collected in one volume the long-term trends in the most significant indicators of human and environmental well-being.
The Caledon Institute’s new study on aboriginal migration and unemployment should have remained buried in bureaucratic obscurity. It has little to say that is useful in resolving a policy failure all too real for Canada’s natives.
In the face of significant tax and regulatory competition from its Western neighbours, Manitoba could use a broad range of reform levers to improve its economic performance.