More than 1.4 million cases of COVID-19 and 106,000 deaths in the United States alone have accompanied stay-home lockdowns, businesses bankruptcies, over 40 million unemployed workers, plummeting tax revenues and unprecedented debt. Ongoing rioting, vandalism, arson...
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Embrace Inequality, one of the Key Drivers of Economic and Human Progress
In recent months and years, a plethora of social, cultural, academic and political critics and self-appointed ‘activists’ have all decried the supposed increase in income and wealth inequality in Western nations, particularly the United States of America. The first...
The Unholy Crusade Against Gas Appliances
When Berkeley, California became the first U.S. city to ban the installation of natural gas lines to new homes last year, Mayor Jesse Arreguín proudly stated, “We are committed to the Paris Agreement and must take immediate action in order to reach our climate action...
The end of America?
How do societies and cultures end? What causes the death of societies and cultures? It is not always the obvious threats. Today we are struggling with the coronavirus which has unfortunately sickened many and killed some Americans. The deaths are tragic, but so are...
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How Traditional Finance Can Survive DeFi
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is here to stay and the time to jump on the bandwagon is now. By embracing blockchain and its related technologies, challenger banks are bringing the crypto revolution into traditional finance (TradFi) and preventing obsolescence. TradFi...
Gun Violence in the U.S.
There have been thousands of cases of unprovoked firearm attacks in the United States over the past ten years and countless more prior to that. Senseless shootings at schools, places of worship, shopping malls, workplaces and hospitals. And there has been an endless...
Flat Tax Comeback
Flat tax systems being adopted by many countries..
Move that fire hydrant
Here are four small ways to make a city’s neighbourhood roads work better, all of them cost-effective, all of them betterments to the quality of life, none of them needing money from away.
Why Doha Must Succeed
One day the majority of people in these countries will wake up and understand how much better off they would be if they did away with farm subsidies and protection. Governments would save themselves billions of dollars. Consumers and taxpayers would get a much better deal and farmers would enjoy freedom and opportunities they do not have now.
Power to consumers, not monopolies
As usual, consumers will pay the tab for the great blackout of 2003. Utilities and regulators will face no penalties for the fiasco. Genuine accountability exists in England, where companies must pay consumers direct cash if they incur service failures. Power outages have dropped by two-thirds.
Low-priced water sucking us down the drain
Canadians are among the world’s most profligate users of water because the price of water is so cheap.
A Manitoba Electricity Conservation Bonanza
Tradable Electricity Permits (TEP) would grant individual Manitobans rights to a predetermined quantity of power, with the cost of a permit determined by existing rate structures.
No Spray of Hope
Massive insecticide spraying of adult mosquitoes won’t stop West Nile virus, says pesticide expert Barrie Webster. Let’s get them when they’re young
Gail Stephens, CAO, City of Winnipeg
The Frontier interview with Gail Stephens, CAO, City of Winnipeg.
Manitoba’s Low Business Investment
Manitoba has the lowest rate of capital investment per capita in western Canada and the third lowest in the country, after two Maritime provinces. Over the last ten years, the accumulated new investment amounts to only 40% of the Canadian average.