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Thousand Tier Healthcare
Structural reform, not more money, is the solution to Canada’s Medicare mess.
Moving Manitoba Beyond That 70s Show
Four imaginative solutions to Manitoba’s perennial policy paralysis.
Why it’s Bad Luck to be a Lucky Country
Australia is “the lucky country”. Mineral rich Australians bask in the glow of their God-given place in the sun. Whenever the Australian economy has been in deep strife with a dreadful current account and a collapsing currency.
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
A Conversation with Ronald Jensen
Its primary element is competition, or managed competition, in which the city workforce competes with the private sector to deliver municipal services.
Deregulation, Privatization, and the Rebirth of the CNR
It is one of the Chretien government’s least talked about policy successes. The renaissance of the Canadian National Railway offers a unique object lesson in good public policy. Taking the CNR out of the public sector allowed it to jump onto the success track.
Winnipeg Quo Vadis (Where are you Going)?
The abandoned prairie farmhouse, the silent mill by the stream, the stone fence overgrown and hidden by forest are all popular poetic symbols for the decay in traditional rural values of hard work, family, and community.
Alberta’s Liquor Policy Bonanza
The consequences of Alberta’s privatization of liquor retailing have been better than anyone expected.
Government Think Tank Confused About Consumer-based Healthcare Model
Do MSAs prey on the sick and the poor? The Centre responds to a critique of the idea by the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation, a government research group based in Winnipeg.
Separation Key to Winnipeg Renewal
In Phoenix, civic politicians break the law if they interfere directly in the city’s administrative affairs.
A better BA: An assessment of the current Bachelor of Arts Program at the University of Manitoba
Ivan Holloway, Research Associate, Frontier Centre for Public Policy According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 10% of Canadian university graduates are functionally illiterate. What is wrong with our education system? Could it be...
A Conversation with David Henderson
In August the National Post published a provocative article in which you argue that Canada’s rate of economic growth could out pace the impressive American rate and that Canada’s standard of living could surpass that of our American cousins within twenty years should we adopt certain changes in public policy.
Nostalgic Governments Face Cold Realities
Two years ago centre-left parties the world over were celebrating what looked like an electoral swing in their direction. Tony Blair’s convincing win in Britain in May 1997 was followed by Lionel Jospin’s in France, Gerhard Schroeder’s in Germany, the re-election of Jean Chretien in Canada, and a swing to the Democrats in the mid-term elections in the United States.