The City of Winnipeg should be eager to sell services to surrounding muncipalities, not eager to gobble them up based on the false dogma of amalgamation.
Year: 2004
Marketing Manitoba Public Schools – PowerPoint
Sandra Sukhan’s powerpoint slides on marketing the Sunrise School Division to international students.
Winnipeg, satellites well policed: report
Statistics Canada’s report on Police Resources in Canada 2004 said among census metropolitan areas over 500,000 population, Winnipeg had the most police per 100,000 population, with 179 officers. Winnipeg was followed by Toronto at 173 officers.
The Greatest Canadian Supported User Fees
Tommy Douglas advocated healthcare user fees.
Government Should Stay Out of Our Snacks
If people want to eat foods that contain trans fats, they must have that freedom. And if they want to ignore warnings about trans fats, they must have that freedom, too.
Environmentalists lack compassion for poor: author
ENVIRONMENTAL groups are operating in a moral vacuum with no regard for the lives and welfare of people in developing countries, says a man who once took up the cause of environmentalism.
Law of the Labour Back Benches
Some say “modernisation” is an empty term. It is not. It means creating left-of-centre policies that allow more effective responses to the changes transforming contemporary societies. The Nordic social democrats, and new Labour in Britain, have been in the vanguard of such modernisation.
Bill 13 – Mainstreaming Mania
New provincial regulations on special education shatter the myth of local control.
Moore Wisdom Needed
A portrait of Patrick Moore, modern environmentalist
Needed: Ethics for Environmental Activists
Environmental activists specializes in preaching, but their own moral standing is suspect.
Reduced School Taxes KAP Victory
The Government of Manitoba has reduced the education tax levels on farmland.
Murderous London is like old New York
It was James Q Wilson’s now legendary “broken windows” hypothesis which stated that when a neighbourhood, or a city, had become rundown and uncared-for – when its buildings and trains were covered in graffiti, its streets strewn with rubbish, and its youth allowed to indulge in flagrant displays of delinquent bravado – a climate was created in which serious crimes such as murder and robbery could run amok.
A “Poor” School that Works
Who says disadvantaged children can’t learn? A dynamic principal beats the odds.