Many small communities struggle to provide adequate transportation to people with limited mobility and those who cannot afford to drive. Unlike major cities, public transit use in small communities outside the heart of metropolitan areas is rarely a lifestyle choice....
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Canada Should Make Temporary Foreign Workers Permanent
The Temporary Foreign Worker program (TFWP) has recently become a hot-button issue as stories of employers abusing the system roll in. The government is scrambling to identify reforms that will satisfy both employers and the broader public. Offering more prospective...
U of M must address equity of student fees
University of Manitoba president David Bernard got off without serious battle wounds when Education Minister James Allum rejected his proposal to increase the graduate student fees by more than 300 per cent. He was fortunate, because the University of Saskatchewan...
Conversation with David Vardy
David Vardy holds degrees in Economics from Memorial University, the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He was a member of the economics faculty at Queen’s University before returning to Newfoundland and Labrador to serve as a senior public servant for...
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Three Elements Converge into a Perfect Economic Storm for Alberta
Three concurrent and independent elements are preventing Alberta from deriving the full potential out of its energy resources. It is generally said that good things come in sets of three. The Latin expression "omne trium perfectum" conveys the idea that things that...
Fauci-Birx Climate Models
Honest, evidence-based climate models could avoid trillions of dollars in policy blunders President Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force presented some frightening numbers during their March 31 White House briefing. Based on now 2-week-old data and models, as...
Howard to Step Warily in Pushing Reforms
A Conservative Prime Minister in Australia finally has the majorities needed to change some fundamental policies.
Keeping Sticky Fingers out of the Public Purse
New Zealand has avoided scandals like Adscam by separating politicians from administration.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Public Foodcare
Mark Milke’s satire of our healthcare in another venue
Farmers aren’t Killing the Environment
The daily press hammers out doom and gloom headlines about high-production agriculture and the use of pesticides to produce food
Federal, Provincial Spending a Mess
Financial arrangements between Ottawa and the provinces are in a mess and need a major overhaul, one of the country’s big banks warned
Still Time to Save Public Health Care
Canadians should be thankful for last week’s Supreme Court decision on medicare. It has created the opportunity for an honest debate about how to fix publicly funded health care.
In the Stampede to the Middle, Political Vision is Trampled
Everyone trends toward the vague middle. New ideas are killed the moment they arrive, by strategists citing a bank of surveys. Can’t do it. Too risky.
Who Speaks For Free Trade?
Even the alleged friends of free trade want to keep tariffs in dairy and poultry.
2.7M People Find Jobs in Government
Statistics Canada reported 2.7-million people were working in federal, provincial and local governments in 2004, up from a trough of 2.5-million in 1999, and only 10,000 off its peak in 1995