The LICO is not a poverty measure, and we wish everyone would please stop using it as one, says Statistics Canada.
Year: 2007
Windsor’s Taxes Above Average, Analysis Finds
Windsor is a high-tax, high-cost municipality and "a substantial drain" on senior government funds, according to an analysis of the financial performance of Canada's 30 largest cities. The report, entitled the 2007 Local Government Performance Index (LGPI), was...
Montreal Most Indebted City in Canada: Report; More Than Triple National Average
An independent Manitoba think tank has named Montreal the most-indebted city in Canada. Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy released its inaugural Local Government Performance Index: A Financial Analysis of 30 Canadian Cities yesterday, which found...
City Council Spending Money Wisely, Study Finds
Despite a tighter tax base and economic circumstances that are less robust than in some other Canadian centres, Winnipeg's city council appears to be doing a good job of spending its money wisely. That's according to a report released yesterday by the Frontier Centre...
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Canada in 2073—Will There Be One?
“Ahead, Thar Be Dragons.” The world of 2023 is a scary place. One major war is raging, with others probably on the way. The Pax Americana that has given us freedom of the seas and allowed global trade to flourish might be breaking down. International piracy,...
World Cries out for Canadian LNG, “No Business Case” Feds have Totally Failed Us
Today, Canada’s natural gas sector is seeing its decade of darkness due to federal policy. And it’s not because the opportunity wasn’t there. It was because our government allowed its ideology, and that of its anti-oil and gas friends (also known as protestors) to...
Telecommunications Privatization, Services, and Provincial Well-being
Ownership models have little effect on service levels in the competitive telecommunications industry, but they do affect the ability to invest and expand.
A Window on Two Policy Models
Mad scientists could not have designed it if they tried. Over the past decade, telecommunications privatization has played out in a continent-sized laboratory. In the middle of North America, two almost identical companies in the almost identical markets of Manitoba...
A Tale of Two Telcos
It’s a perfect real life laboratory. Take two similar crown corporations Saskatchewan’s SaskTel and Manitoba’s MTS in 1996 and convert one into an shareholder-owned company. What happened?
Jan Södergren, Human Rights Lawyer, Sweden & John Mortimer, President, Canadian LabourWatch Association
Two labour law experts discuss the European precedent for banning union due funding of political activities unrelated to bargaining: Frontier Centre: What is wrong with having a portion of union dues go to political causes? Jan Södergren: This goes against important...
IPCC Wins the Nobel Prize for Peace
So, I have made it at last! There have been two previous occasions in my life when I was close to a Nobel Prize (thereby hangs a tale), now it has arrived. I expect the cheque in the post any time, plus an invitation to the awards ceremony. I am one of the 35,000...
Sylvain Charlebois, Associate Professor in Marketing, University of Regina
Professor Charlebois discusses the past, present and future of supply management in Canada.
Manitoba Natives are Failed Twice Over
The serious problems that plague aboriginals on and off-reserve are well known, as are the shortcomings of Manitoba’s health care. What happens when native Manitobans are caught at the intersection of these two broken systems?
Alternative Primary Set Up by Parents in Bremen
A secret school that was run for almost 30 years by parents disgruntled by the state education system has been discovered in the north German city of Bremen. Several hundred children are believed to have passed through the unregistered alternative primary school, and...
A Fresh Promise to Limit Spending
On Dec. 19, 2005, Stephen Harper spoke to the Quebec City Chamber of Commerce. The media called the speech his "Quebec platform," and it contained some flattering words about Canada being founded there. Its real significance, however, is that for the first time...