Why work for yourself when taxpayers can pay you instead? In the past seven years, more Manitobans than ever have chosen the job security and benefits of federal employment, while the self-employed have begun to vanish. Statistics Canada snapshots show …
Right Sizing Manitoba Public Sector Stalls
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister might best be remembered as the Grinch who stole the 2020 Christmas, forbidding citizens from in-person shopping and gathering for the holiday. However, he has another legacy, more like the Canadian Tire Christmas commercials that said, …
Stagflation Begs for less Government not More
The era of low interest rates and inflation has ended, and now both are mushrooming higher. Canadian year-over-year inflation was 7.7 per cent in May, the highest in nearly 40 years but this author predicts it will go still higher. …
Time for Public Sector Adjustment
Brian Pallister likely knows that his time as Premier of Manitoba, now still leading a solid majority government, is coming to an end. Fortunately for Pallister, his party and Manitoba, if he retires soon, by bringing in a new PC …
Manitoba 2036 A Concept
Sometimes inspiring action is about presenting a vision of what things could be like in the future with a little vision. It’s 2036 and Manitoba’s population just passed 3 million and its economy is booming so how did it get …
Risky Recycling Investments
“Is Recycling working out for Winnipeg and other cities? In 2017 the City of Winnipeg turned down a proposal from its lowest bidder on providing waste and recycling services and went with a more expensive option, why would they do …
Recycled Ideas
Winnipeg is building a bigger recycling plant. Estimated $30 Million Dollars. Despite recycling volumes being static for years. So why build a new one? Recycling is facing an uncertain future as recycling standards are in flux, the current quality recyclables …
A Price on Pickup
The City of Winnipeg did not choose the lowest bid cost for garbage pickup in 2017. The extra cost to Winnipeg taxpayers will be $16 million or approximately an extra 3 to 4 % on the average homeowner property tax …
Powerful Government Unions Make the Economy Weaker
American taxpayers and workers won a big victory recently, with the United States Supreme Court ruling 5-4 in June in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) that government employees not part of a union could …