Canada is finally moving towards an environmental policy for farmers that works, because it respects their rights.
Year: 2005
Fools Rush In
It goes without saying that the federal government will help pay for the recovery of Louisiana and Mississippi. But once the emergencies have been addressed and the disaster-stricken areas are back to normal (or as back to normal as one can hope), lawmakers at the federal and state level should take a sober look at who should be responsible for minimizing the damage of future disasters.
Bike Protectionism
The special interest groups who want to keep inexpensive bikes out of consumers’ hands include the Syndicat des Metallos, which doesn’t like competition from countries where labour gets relatively lower wages (because of underdevelopment).
Jim Harris, Leader, Green Party of Canada
The Frontier’s conversation with Jim Harris, Leader, the Green Party of Canada.
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Fostering a Constructive, Business-Friendly Regime Sustains Innovation, Not Government Money
For standards of living to grow, productivity growth must be strong and continually renewed. That is one notion that nearly all economists can agree on. So, it is not surprising that politicians scramble to discover new or not-so-new ways to boost productivity growth....
Big Tech Influence Can Tip Elections
Behavioural psychologist Robert Epstein believes Google can and does influence voters and that research teams in Canada and elsewhere need to monitor how users are being swayed. Epstein, the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and founder of the American...
Learn to Love Peak Oil
Owen McShane shows how markets will deal with the panic of “peak oil”
Reserve Housing — a Burning Issue
A privately owned home could be used as collateral to start a business that also could be privately owned and could, therefore, be managed in such a way that it actually made money and produced jobs — two things that are in short supply on reserves, where there are virtually no private businesses
Can Alberta Afford to be Rich and Stupid?
Balanced budgets have been the law in Alberta for nearly ten years. Now that the province has reached it debt-free goal, the questions are: “What’s next? Beyond balanced budgets and spending hikes, how does a wealthy government provide good government?”
Farmer Abuse
The Wheat Board has a lot of nerve when it takes European trips at farmers’ expense in order to harm their interests.
Wheat board at WTO to Protect Farmer Interests – Our view …
The Canadian Wheat Board responds to a Frontier column on the agency’s participation in WTO talks in Europe.
Kyoto Plan Criticized for Huge Costs
The current grid structure in Canada is mostly north-south since most of the population lives near the U.S. border. North-south transmission connections ensure the availability of imports from the United States, and give provinces the chance to export excess power to neighbouring U.S. states
Protect the Boreal Forest From Abundance?
Is Canada running out of trees? From the pages of the National Post, a remarkable exchange of opposing views.
It’s the Alcohol!
Moderate red wine consumption can be beneficial, but so can consumption of white wine, beer, and distilled spirits. There’s no magic to red wine.
Milk and Money
The price of milk in Canada recently popped up by an average of 7.8% and if there were any protests, they were certainly muted. That is unfortunate. The price increases should have reminded consumers that we weave a terribly tangled web when first we practise to deceive