Behind the anti-American hate seen in the current rioting, arson, and looting is the long term undermining of America carried out systematically in our universities. Various social movements—the counter-culture movement of the 1960s, the feminist movement from the...
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No-Fault Insurance in Alberta?
In these times when everyone’s attention seems to be riveted on COVID-19, it is important to remember that there are still bad policy ideas that have some chance of becoming legislation in the not too distant future. The Alberta government recently convened an expert...
Yes, Canada is Systemically Racist – but not in the way you Think
Words are important tools in human interaction and, used in certain ways, they become weapons. Politics these days is the art of twisting language to do harm to your enemies. Let us examine how certain words and phrases have lost their original meanings and have...
Reform Spending or Devalue our Living Standards?
In looking forward towards a post-pandemic recovery for Canada, an important player is the bond market. Over the last 20 years, Canadian provinces have borrowed heavily. Total provincial bonds now exceed federal government bonds - $650 billion outstanding for the...
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Universities Today
Western Universities have been major contributors to our civilization and others through scientific discovery and humanistic scholarship. Knowledge both old and new has been expanded, enriched, and diffused. Universities have also been an important channel of upward...
Friedman & Sowell: Should Our School System Be Privatized?
A discussion about the value and effects of giving parents an option to the underperforming government school system. Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, William F. Buckley Jr. WATCH HERE
Moving Manitoba from a “Have Not” to a “Have” Province
Manitoba’s Liberal Party Leader suggests ways to improve the province’s economic prospects.
Winnipeg Police: High Staffing, Low Clearance Rates
Although the performance of the Winnipeg Police Service improved slightly in 2003, its relative efficiency is still lower than that of most other large metropolitan forces in Canada.
Global Cooling and Canadian Agriculture
Environment Canada has taken a single scientifically unjustified position on climate change. Logic almost dictates we should plan for cooling. We can adjust to warming with techniques practiced to the south, but nobody is farming north of us.
The Keys to Aboriginal Prosperity
Research from Harvard University confirms that poverty on Indian reservations is avoidable. Healthy economies need stability and freedom.
The Poison Elixir of Equalization
Efforts to get more equalization for Manitoba will push the province further into an insidous welfare trap that increases subsidy dependency by rewarding policies that undermine the private economy.
Free-Market Environmentalism Works
It’s time to challenge the advocates of state planning and recapture the environment issue through market friendly approaches.
Old Approach in New Water Act
At legislative hearings, rural organizations strongly criticized the Manitoba Government’s new Water Protection Act.
Reserve Sales Taxation a Thorny Issue
Manitoba’s Indians may be losing traditional tax exemptions; shouldn’t they hear about it, first?
Tom Adams on Conawapa
Energy think tanker Tom Adams on Manitoba’s Conawapa dam project.