To Chief Reginald Bellerose, 49, of Muskowekwan First Nation in southern Saskatchewan , the wave of the future belongs to Indigenous entrepreneurship. “Our entrepreneurial spirit has been dormant. We must re-ignite that spirit,” said Bellerose, the 13-year chief of the …
Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Regina
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has today released Housing Affordability and the Standard of Living in Regina, a new report authored by Wendell Cox, a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre. Mr Cox is an expert in land use …
Public Private Partnerships – A Primer For Regina Voters
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has today released a new report on Public Private Partnerships [P3s] in anticipation of the City of Regina’s referendum this week. Entitled Public Private Partnerships: A Primer For Regina Voters, it is designed to …
Rooming House Options In Regina
Last week the city of Regina held a public meeting about Rooming Houses in the city. The meeting is part of a wider process the council is going through to try to address the dramatic housing shortage the city faces. …
City of Regina Plans to Solve Cab Shortage by Adding…6 Temporary Licences…
Regina has a serious taxi shortage. The city has 126 taxi licences for over 200,000 residents. In other words, there are nearly 1600 people per cab. A reasonable person might assume that this is a significant problem, especially in a dispersed city like Regina that does not have a great deal of mass transit. Aside from the fact that taxis are handy for non-drivers, they’re also a pretty big part of mitigating drunk driving. While adding a six taxis won’t hurt, it also won’t have much of an effect.
University of Regina Economist says Rent Control Policies Bad Idea
A Regina economist is cautioning that recent calls for rent control legislation is not the best way to deal with the availability of affordable rental units.
Public Private Partnerships In Regina
Last night I attended a Regina city council meeting where the usage of a Public Private Partnership for the construction, operation and maintenance of a new waste water treatment plant was discussed.
Regina Crime Rate Continues to Fall as Population Grows
Will Chabun reported in today’s Leader-Post that Regina’s crime statistics continue to fall. One can potentially attribute this to several factors: policing practices, community organizations, consistently low unemployment. It is difficult to assign weightings to such factors. But one factor is often left out of this discussion that almost certainly deserves part of the credit: increased population.
New Report Propels Regina to Third Place
The City of Regina, by comparison, climbed nine spots over last year to tie for third with Maple Ridge, B.C., in the Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s annual Local Government Performance Index released Monday.