CANADA, January 21, 2019 – The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released the 15th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. The survey is prepared by Wendell Cox of Demographia (USA) and a Senior Fellow at Frontier Centre and …
Who controls the Marketplace of Ideas and does regulating it, limit it?
In Part 1, I discussed some issues around these Social Media companies and whether they are considered monopolies. Because of the nature of their actual business (digital advertising) they aren’t monopolies, they are each other’s competitors in a larger marketplace. …
Battling the Bottle — The Untold Story
The ’60s Scoop was back in the news this month, and I expect we will hear more about it in the coming years. In fact, I am guessing there are plans in place to make it the subject of the …
Marine Atlantic Better Suited for Private Investors
One of the biggest risks to taxpayers with Crown corporations is their dependence on government subsidy; and how vulnerable they are if such subsidies were ever to be reduced. Marine Atlantic Inc. monopolizes the market for passenger water transportation on …
Treaty Annuities as a Revolutionary Path to Reconciliation
An Ontario Superior Court ruling, delivered December 2018, has lit the fuse for a political, cultural and economic time-bomb that will impact Canadians across the country, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. Ruling on a claim by the chiefs of 21 First …
Four Things Canada’s Top Spy Didn’t Say
When David Vigneault addressed the Economic Club, as the nation’s intelligence chief, he acknowledged his agency’s first rule: “Don’t talk.” True to form, he said little in his tightly scripted remarks on December 4. What the Canadian Security Intelligence Service …
How ‘Social Justice’ Warriors Kill Free Thought
Sixty years ago, higher education had an open culture where students and professors could explore many different social and political perspectives, views, values, and theories. Together, they would consider different approaches, argue about them, and draw what conclusions they could. …