All Posts Tagged With: "Canada"

Wilfrid Laurier: A Canadian Statesman

Owing to where most Americans trace their ancestry from, we tend to know more European history than the history of our immediate neighbors to the north and south, Canada and Mexico. We can name famous entrepreneurs and political leaders from across the sea but rarely one from right next door. Last May in a casual [...]

22Oct2010 | Lawrence W. Reed | 4 comments | Continued

Socialism of the Spirit

Obesity is approaching epidemic proportions in Canada, studies tell us. Predictably, some busybodies have started promoting the idea of a “fat tax” on snack foods such as chips and cookies, comparable to the “sin taxes” currently imposed on alcohol and tobacco. A surprising percentage of the population seems willing to entertain this idea. According to [...]

27Jun2010 | Karen Selick | 2 comments | Continued

Federal Deposit Insurance: A Banking System Built on Sand

Federal deposit insurance grew out of a turbulent time in American history: the Great Depression. During two waves of bank failures in the 1930s an astonishing 9,000 banks closed and millions of depositors lost some or all of their savings. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) began operations in 1934, insuring deposit accounts up to [...]

20May2010 | Warren C. Gibson | 11 comments | Continued

Where Do Canadians Go for Health Care?

The Detroit Free Press has an answer. Money quote: Agreements between Detroit hospitals and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for heart, imaging tests, bariatric and other services provide access to some services not immediately available in the province, said ministry spokesman David Jensen. Hat tip: Shikha Dalmia

22Aug2009 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

The Subprime Crisis Shows that Government Intervenes Too Little in Financial Markets?

Start with two assumptions. No. 1: banking and financial markets are inherently unstable. No. 2: government intervention into banking and financial markets can only stabilize (never destabilize). You’ll find it easy to conclude that any period of market instability we experience, like the recent subprime-lending problem, is the market’s fault and that it could have [...]

1Oct2008 | Lawrence H. White | 0 comments | Continued

There’s No Such Thing as a Nonprofit Organization

Karen Selick is a lawyer in Belleville, Ontario. Copyright 2003 by Karen Selick. “Four legs good, two legs bad,” chanted the sheep in Orwell’s 1945 satire Animal Farm. In Canada today the people are chanting something slightly different: “Non-profit good, profit bad.” Take Medicare, for instance. A recent widely publicized, government-commissioned report (the Romanow report) [...]

1Jun2003 | Karen Selick | 2 comments | Continued

Socialized Medicine Is the Problem

Recently, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien changed his mind about his country’s system of socialized medicine. After long and hard opposition, he now favors a two-tier health system, including user fees and private provision. This makes it all the more important to take another look, not just at the surface of state-run medical care, but [...]

1Dec2001 | Walter Block | 6 comments | Continued

The Tainted Public-Health Model of Gun Control

Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? —Juvenal Early in the 1990s the American Medical Association (AMA) launched a major campaign against domestic violence, which continues to this day. As a concerned physician, neurosurgeon, and then an active member of organized medicine, I joined in what I considered a worthwhile cause. It was then that I arrived [...]

1Apr2001 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 6 comments | Continued

The New Anti-Liberals

Americans concerned about the inroads that political correctness continues to make into their lives would do well to look northward to Canada. The intrusive regime of moral reformation according to the left is about ten years more advanced there than it is in the United States. The situation permits us to see our probable future. [...]

1Dec2000 | Thomas F. Bertonneau | 0 comments | Continued

Hospital Food and Socialized Medicine

Last September, a colleague of mine visited Manitoba, a province in central Canada. Electioneering was at a fever pitch, with just a few days left before voting for a variety of public offices. My friend was astonished to observe that the dominant issue was indeed hospital food. It had become a political hot potato, the candidates outdoing one another to express concern and promise action.

1Mar2000 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | Continued

Welcome to Canada

Monte Solberg is a member of the Canadian Parliament and chief finance critic for the Reform Party. People who are newcomers or visitors to Canada sometimes have trouble understanding how our government works so I have prepared the following short primer. Taxes are the money forcibly taken from almost every man, woman, and child in [...]

1Dec1999 | Monte Solberg | 0 comments | Continued

Health Care: Over the Canadian Cliff?

Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Everyone in Washington recognizes that Medicare is headed over a financial cliff. The growth in spending continues to outpace that of revenues; [...]

1Oct1999 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | Continued

A Program the Borg Would Love

Karen Selick is a practicing attorney in Ontario and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Ontario, Canada—Suppose you’re out for a stroll one evening. A scruffy-looking stranger approaches you and says, “Hand over all your valuables, and make it snappy.” “Is this a stickup?” you gasp, stupidly. “Why, no,” says the stranger, “it’s merely the result [...]

1Feb1999 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | Continued

We Need a Global Fed?

Some economic pundits see every instance of economic disorder as proof of the defects of capitalism and of the need for more extensive government regulation of the economy. It never seems to cross their minds that government regulations might even destabilize markets. A recent example of such thinking comes from Jeffrey E. Garten, dean of [...]

1Feb1999 | George A. Selgin | 0 comments | Continued

Smuggled Cigarettes, Unteachable Politicians

John Attarian is an adjunct scholar with the Midland, Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and a nonsmoker. “Only one thing in history is certain: that mankind is unteachable,” Winston Churchill told his dinner guests one night in January 1941.[1] He was discussing international relations, but it goes for politicians’ economic blunders, too. Indeed, Churchill’s [...]

1Sep1998 | John Attarian | 7 comments | Continued

Military Follies and Memorial Day Memories

Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Washington, D.C., is ever the city of contradictions. Eloquent speeches about freedom by legislators voting to limit liberty. Emotional promises to aid [...]

1Sep1997 | Doug Bandow | 4 comments | Continued

Why It Matters

Professor Clites teaches at Tusculum College in Tennessee. Last November people in Quebec voted on whether to secede from Canada. Before the vote took place there was speculation in both Canada and the United States about how much harm such a pullout would do to Canada, to the United States, and to Quebec itself. With [...]

1Mar1996 | Roger M. Clites | 0 comments | Continued

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