Tides is not the only organization involved in the anti-oilsands efforts, but it rivals the Rockefeller Brothers Fund as the best known. This paper profiles the 51 Canadian organizations that the Tides Foundation gave USD $20,000 or more in 2016. This examination...
Rioters who hate America are not an accident; they are the fruition of decades of ideological indoctrination at our universities. While Marxism was increasingly repudiated around the world by countries that had suffered and failed under communist rule, professors in...
The last few weeks exposed schizophrenic aspects of Canadian culture and their influence on governments’ behaviour. The most palpable example lies in how we trampled, in fear, over memory and institutions, obsessively protective and morally dismissive of dignity and...
Lack of understanding of the hidden police culture will, once again, only result in superficial changes, all the while the festering cinders remaining to reignite another bonfire. Despite the promises made during the past decade, particularly with the adoption and...
What do feminists want? Is feminism an inclusive movement striving for gender equality and justice for all, or is it a partisan movement seeking advantage and benefits for females at the expense of males? What exactly is feminism's attitude toward males? Is it...
As the title suggests, an article in The American Prospect What Medicare for All Really Looks Like, claims to describe the realities of Canadian medicare to our southern neighbours. So, it is both ironic – and disappointing – that a careful reading reveals it to be...
Higher budgets that try to supercharge the growth of low quality public services merely compound the problem.
To become economically competititve, Manitoba needs to reduce the size of its public sector and reform its taxation and labour policies.
Fraser Institute Senior Research Economist Niels Veldhuis explores the implications of Manitoba’s large public sector, his PowerPoint slide presentation.
Niels Veldhuis is Senior Research Economist at The Fraser Institute. Since joining the Institute in 2002 he has authored or co-authored 10 comprehensive studies on a wide range of topics including, taxation, labour markets, government debt, government failure, fiscal...
Instead of conferring new houses as political prizes, some First Nations are asking for payments from those who can afford it.
Bill Gates offers practical advice on life, in spite of our schools.
The U.S. Farm Bill proposals reduce direct crop subsidies but increase conservation incentive programs.
TEACHERS salaries will top out at more than $70,000 in two years — placing enormous pressure on school boards trying to hold down property taxes, says River East Transcona school board chairman Peter Kotyk.
The efficient contracting out of public services improves them, but it depends on a fundamental change in the culture of government.