The three main resolutions passed called for Ottawa staying out of provincial affairs, a reformed Senate and an effective counterbalance to activist courts.
Year: 2006
Secondary Suites Make Good Sense
Reducing regulations on secondary suites is a smart way to increase affordable housing supply
Telecommuting Trumps Urban Planners
The phenomenon of telecommuters – the tens of thousands of Winnipeggers who work at the end of an internet pipe, a group that is not politically aware or organized, and therefore invisible – is already well advanced.
You Get What You Pay For
The condition of Winnipeg’s rental units has been in decline for some time now. The reason is rent control.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy!
COVID-19 Emergency Powers Nearly Limitless
The war against the invisible enemy of COVID-19 has unfortunately made normal rights and freedoms invisible as well. Another example manifested on September 13 when Saskatchewan’s premier renewed emergency orders for his province. The list of powers he claimed were so...
Immigrants, Reconquistas and Economic Systems
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Selling Wheat the Soviet Way
Last week, federal Minister of Agriculture Chuck Strahl suggested momentum was growing among farmers for an end to the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly over Prairie grain sales. Since 1943, all wheat and barley farmers in the three Prairie provinces and northeastern...
Freeing the Farmers
If you've never heard the old folk tale about the Wild Hogs of Horseshoe Bend, just get Rolf Penner started on farming subsidies. The hog and grain producer from Morris, Man., loves to tell the story of how a clever farmer was able to pen a group of feral pigs by...
Our Cities Should Learn to Live Within Our Means
After a decade of mostly raised taxes by New Democrats — with deathbed conversion cuts near the end of their rule — a reduction in the personal tax burden was overdue.
Big Transit rides again
Two Fridays ago the folks responsible for the Pittsburgh region's collection of mass transit boondoggles and inadequate highways uncorked another mega transportation/planning study. Ignored and unread by the tax-paying masses, as these dangerous things always are,...
Breakfast on the Frontier – Dissipated Energy – With Marcus Buchart
Listen to Marcus Buchart speak at Breakfast on the Frontier speak about Manitoba Hydro, pricing and the Public Utility Board here. (36 minutes)
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The Right Honourable Edward Schreyer
The former Manitoba Premier and Governor General of Canada takes his own party to task for its energy policies, especially cross-subsidization and delays in licensing new dams.
Corin Taylor, Economics Analyst, Reform Think-Tank
Really want to help the poor? Reform government programs that focus on their needs. Make them transparent and productive vehicles for compatting poverty, not “jobs for life” for bureaucrats.
Nothing for the Money
On Thursday, May 11th, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley spoke to the Empire Club of Canada in Toronto. His topic – equalization. His message – both Ontario and the Maritimes suffer from decades of federal equalization transfers.