Ontario needs to rework how it uses electricity and how it is distributed before they run into major problems.
Year: 2006
Expert Touts ER Wait Times Online
Johan Hjertqvist hopes that one day soon Canadians will be able to consult with their physicians by e-mail or use the Internet to check on emergency room wait times. It sounds like a pipe dream, but it’s already being done in some European countries. “In Sweden, if...
Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor of the Environment, University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba’s widely published yet arguably most unknown Professor discusses energy, conservation, alternative fuels, Kyoto and more.
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Frontier’s book review of Mark Steyn’s America Alone
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How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs
Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the...
Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2023 Edition Released
Demographia International Housing Affordability rates middle-income housing affordability in 94 major housing markets in eight nations: Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This edition covers the third...
Brison Coy on Convention Plans
Scott Brison isn’t yet saying which of the other federal Liberal leadership candidates will receive his support in the convention less than two weeks away.
The Grain Industry Restructures
In an unexpectedly daring bid, SaskPool recently offered 1.35 of its shares for each of Agricore’s common shares. Although the takeover bid was labelled as “hostile,” – in other words, not sought or welcomed by Agricore – it does indicate that the grain industry is...
Londoners Have Bought Into Public Transit
London is one of the few cities where public transit is either maintained or ran by private sector companies. Surprisingly their patronage is continually increasing.
Economist Milton Friedman Dies at 94
Milton Friedman, free-market economist who won the Nobel Prize for economics, dies at age 94.
Who is James Hoggan?
For a first-rate demonstration of dishonest manipulation masquerading as investigative journalism, it’s hard to beat The Denial Machine. Without spending one second looking at the science, the CBC crew smeared and discredited the skeptical scientists with corporate associations. Exxon did it. James Hoggan, however, is the real villain.
Grass Growing as Potential Fuel
Write up of Frontier Centre’s Policy Experts Meeting held in Regina November 14, 2006.
Lehotsky always put family first, his son says
Rev. Harry Lehotsky died Saturday, November 11, 2006. His son, Matthew talks about his father’s accomplishments.
Phil, You’re Wrong on the “Native Fiscal Imbalance”
Far too many band councils operate like despots in Third World countries. Their people are afraid to invest twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a reserve-based business, only to see it shut down by the band council for petty political reasons.
Show Me the Money
Cross-border sampling results agree with most of the studies that have been done. Farmers just south of the border get paid more for identical wheat and barley crops. The Wheat Board’s so-called price advantage is a chimera.