A guide to assorted Luddites, labor monopolists, muddled intellectuals and otherworldly pietists who kept resisting modernity even as it overwhelmed them.
Year: 2002
Stop crying over free market milk
Canadian dairy farmers want the federal government to further protect them from that free-market phenomenon known as competition.
Ontario Rent Control Lessons
Reader feedback on the damage caused by rent control in Ontario
Public Embarrassment
Legislation is only as good as the public sector’s implementation. In Canada, that’s not so good
Featured News
There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
How governments fund their very own lobby groups
When governments fund lobby groups, it gives the public the mistaken sense that more Canadians support the views of such groups than might actually be the case.
Pinning Hopes on Tax Competition
competition between governments is beneficial because it reduces wasteful government spending and forces a certain discipline on politicians.
Making Sense of Sustainable Development
‘Sustainable development’ is a term that has been around for about 30 years. Over that time it has been interpreted in a variety of ways, ranging from the sensible to the slippery to the downright dangerous.
The Kyoto speak brainwashers
The doctrine of global warming is deeply anti-intellectual and anti-scientific
Urban Sprawl – Not a Winnipeg Problem
Winnipeg is denser than many Canadian cities – don’t panic on urban sprawl
Environmental Group Finds Abundant Wilderness
Contrary to some popular thinking the earth is a vast and empty space.
Fixing Winnipeg’s Downtown
This December 2002 paper explores “big-picture” policy reforms to revitalize Winnipeg’s high potential downtown. It kicks off the Frontier Centre’s Winnipeg Policy Blueprint Project.
MEDIA RELEASE – Less Means More, Says Winnipeg Think-Tank
Frontier Centre releases new paper suggesting fewer subsidies and better policies for the downtown
Let’s Worry about Stagnation, not Sprawl
An analysis of Winnipeg’s population trends reveals we should be worried about the lack of growth, not “sprawl”