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...
In a famous 60 Minutes interview, Mike Wallace asks Morgan Freeman how to get rid of racism. Freeman instantly responds by saying that it’s easy: stop referring to him as a Black man and he will stop referring to Wallace as a White man. Freeman says only by removing...
Berkeley, CA, Takoma Park, MD and other cities; California, Connecticut, New York, Virginia, and other states; Germany, England, and other countries; the European Union – all plan to banish oil, natural gas, and coal within 10, 20 or 30 years. A number of US states...
There’s a television series called First Contact that’s put out by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, and recently broadcast by TV Ontario. The series takes a few people who have had little or no contact with Indigenous people on a tour of Indigenous...
One of the big policy issues for the federal government this year, as well as in the Conservative leadership race, is immigration. By a margin of 63 percent to 7 percent, according to a recent Leger poll, Conservative voters want their new leader to decrease rather...
Last week there was yet another “round dance” held at Portage and Main, this one was in support of the “hereditary chiefs” of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation blocking authorized construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia. In spite of a court...
The efficient contracting out of public services improves them, but it depends on a fundamental change in the culture of government.
Manitoba could make its public schools more affordable with a smarter model that eliminates school boards.
The Province of Manitoba should assume full responsibility for public school financing and abandon property taxes as a revenue source.
Manitoba continues to spend more per capita on public elementary and secondary education than the Canadian average. When benchmarked against affordability, Manitoba has the most expensive public school system.
Environmental extremists have no place in decision-making about the harvesting of our forests.
Are we going to ideologize ourselves off the demographic cliff or do something substantive to save Medicare?
Who says the car isn’t a better way to get around?
Light-rail mass transit is an expensive and inefficient means to move people around within cities. The car and improved bus transit work better.
“I would promote wind for power, not damming more rivers,” says actor Ed Begley, Jr. It’s low-cost, renewable, inexhaustible, eco-friendly and emits no greenhouse gases. If banks and energy companies financed wind energy projects, they’d help protect wildlife and...