THE province needs to amend its building code to reflect the realities of inner-city home renovations
Year: 2003
Fund Success, Not Seats in Lecture Halls
Current methods of funding universities encourage high to enrolments, but contain weak incentives for ensuring the students will earn degrees.
Fraser study made union-job links
Fraser authors respond to criticism on labour survey
Quebec Turns to Net to Improve Health Care
The Internet will allow patients to become “health consumers,” the province’s health minister said at the Quebec Liberal party’s general council meeting on Saturday.
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Timeless Wisdom – The Politics of Successful Structural Reform
It’s a well-known pattern in public policy – profligate politicians damaging their economies with out-of-control spending, massive borrowing and higher taxes – inevitably leading to fiscal crisis, sharp declines in growth and ultimately rapidly falling currency value...
Canada’s National Hysteria in the 21st Century
Mass hysteria is the spontaneous manifestation of a particular behaviour by many people. There are numerous historical examples: Middle Age nuns at a convent in France spontaneously began to meow like cats; at another convent, nuns began biting one another. In...
Fiscal Lessons from “Combat Barbie”
A book review of Janice MacKinnon’s book “Minding the Public Purse”, which chronicles her battle to create fiscal sanity in Saskatchewan’s government.
Some Policy Ideas for Rural Voters
Rural project director Robert Sopuck muses about election thinking for rural voters.
Johan Norberg, Globalization Advocate
Frontier interviews Johan Norberg, globalization advocate and author “In Defence of Global Capitalism”
Ontario’s Dim Electricity Policy will Shock
As predicted, Ontario electricity price controls are wreaking havoc on taxpayers and the broader economy
The Moral Case for Free Trade and Globalization
The most important arguments for free and open trade relate to liberty and peace.
Johan Norberg Speech – The Benefits of Globalization
A speech by one of the world’s leading defenders of globalization, Johan Norberg, to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg, April 29, 2003.
Alberta Reductions Outpace Neighbours Again (FC012)
The 2003 Tax Load Index offers a simple measure of tax competitiveness across western Canada and adjacent jurisdictions, including Ontario and two American states, North Dakota and Minnesota.
No Spray of Hope
Massive insecticide spraying of adult mosquitoes won’t stop West Nile virus, says pesticide expert Barrie Webster. Let’s get them when they’re young
Residential Schools Story More Complicated
Residential schools also provided benefits to native students.