Western premier says scales tipped against rich provinces
Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal.
Rural Internet access: Broadband co-ops are the way to go
Eastlink, a regional telecommunications company in Nova Scotia, has drawn sharp criticism from customers, local governments and the province for its decision to cap rural Internet packages at 15 GB/month in order to ensure equitable service for “basic Internet needs like e-mail, general web browsing, and social media.”
It’s 2015, so why can’t I email my doctor yet?
By: Dianne Kelderman and Dr. David Zitner
Nalcor Energy Marketing looks to ship it out to Boston
Massachusetts governor says Canadian hydro key to meeting climate change goals
Raising Minimum Wage in Nova Scotia May Do More Harm Than Good
Michael Kydd is interviewed on CBC Radio about raising the minimum wage in Nova Scotia.
Does Nova Scotia stifle innovation?
Disruptors fear province doesn’t welcome new ideas
Should we stop paying down our public debt?
Radio Interview with Marco Navarro-Genie, President of AIMS (Atlantic Institute for Market Studies)
When releasing violent offenders, use fact, not opinion
Vince Li, 39, was travelling on a Greyhound bus, and sat next to 22-year-old Tim McLean. For no apparent reason, Mr. Li attacked, killed and decapitated Mr. McLean. The killer reported that voices told him to commit the murder. The court, listening to psychiatric testimony, found him not criminally responsible and sent him to a mental institution. Three years later, many people were appalled when a panel agreed to his occasional release with supervision. Now psychiatrists are stoking more controversy by recommending that Mr. Li transfer to a group home and be allowed unescorted outings. Those who applaud the decision to release Mr. Li must believe that psychiatric experts are clairvoyant, and therefore able to predict whether someone who has once been violent will not be violent again. Dangerous and chaotic behaviour is too unpredictable to allow re-entry into society.
The limits of psychiatry in the criminal justice system
Recent, alarming headlines have provoked many Canadians to take firm, and often conflicting, positions on issues of crime and punishment. Citizens ask how they can protect themselves, while behaving in an ethical way toward those who have committed violent crimes.
Alberta should save all of its resource revenue
It’s blasphemy, but when Peter Lougheed decided in 1976 to put 30 per cent of natural resource revenue into the Alberta Heritage Fund, he got it wrong. It should’ve been 100 per cent. In Lougheed’s defence, he got it a lot less wrong than the premiers who came after him, and he didn’t have the benefit of hindsight. The last 40 years on the resource revenue roller-coaster show that the best way to deal with the volatile and intergenerational nature of resource revenue is to transform it into a permanent financial asset that produces a steady stream of annual revenue.