Name something you can find only in Canada. If we eliminate easy answers such as wildlife oddities, three-down football and maple-flavoured pastries and focus instead on major transportation infrastructure hubs, there’s just one correct response: the unique and deeply-flawed Canadian …
Health Care Forum 2011 – University of Calgary – Peter Holle
Bang for the Buck: How well Canada performs in health care How good is Canada in providing health care: areas of progress and challenges? Why advanced health care systems aren’t always the most expensive? Where is health care service the …
Kudos to Environment Minister Peter Kent for giving Canadians a climate scare-free Earth Day
Happily, and perhaps unexpectedly, Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent resisted the temptation to associate his Earth Day speech with the climate scare. In an announcement that included nothing at all about climate, global warming, greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide, Kent and his Alberta counter-part Diana McQueen instead discussed a practical, science-based plan to enhance public access to real pollution data from the oilsands.
Fisher River Best Governed First Nation in Manitoba
Frontier has been fortunate to provide some recognition of the highest scoring First Nations in each of the three Prairie Provinces in the form of a plague and a cheque for $5,000.
Peter Lougheed (1928 – 2012), RIP.
Peter Lougheed, Alberta’s 10th premier, has passed away.
Ottawa’s Peter Pan Budget: The new budget is not a serious attempt at reining in spending
The new federal budget was created on a wish and a prayer, on a hope the world economy recovers instead of soberly facing up to the possibility that Canada’s federal government should get our fiscal house in order.
Robbing Peter to Pay David Suzuki
The environment has become the new reason for interventionist government and proponents quite happily admit the same.
Are World’s Best Housing Bargains Here?
WINNIPEG real estate has long been renowned as a bargain in Canada, but a new study says it’s also one of the most affordable housing markets in much of the world.
Permanent Astonishment – Showing a Way Forward
After a press interview several years ago Tomson Highway, author of Permanent Astonishment (Doubleday Canada, 2021) found himself sidelined by Indigenous and media elites for his apostacy in saying that some good things came out of residential schools. He said: …