Canada’s largest economy is under pressure from the rising dollar and high energy costs.
Year: 2007
Breakfast on the Frontier – Expansion on Northern Hydro Lines – With Hugh McFadyen
Listen to Hugh McFadyen speak at Breakfast on the Frontier here. (60 minutes)
Head of Think-Tank Decries Subsidized Hydro Rates
Effective public policy is about making smart choices that produce better outcomes. Why its not smart to subsidize electricity and keep your taxes high.
Why Urban Planners Love Global Warming
Why Urban Planners Love Global Warming
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
Medical Martial Law – Never Again
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
A Coming Revenue Crunch?
The Frontier Centre, in partnership with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies in Halifax, presents an AIMS study rating the 2006/07 budget performance of the western provinces and Ontario ranking fiscal health, budget transparency and budget impacts.
Not Time to Undo Major NDP Policy Success
Despite all the evidence that rent control harms those who can least afford it, the common remedies of rent control and restrictions on condo conversions, more like the cold wind than the warm sun, are oozing their way back onto the political agenda.
Rescuing Lake Winnipeg with Better Public Policy
How banning grey water septic fields produced more raw sewage spills in cottage country.
Paying for the Wheat Board
The Canadian Wheat Board model has inadvertently cancelled vast opportunities in the higher end, value added part of the agriculture sector.
A Sickly Health Result
It’s no surprise that a new study of halfa-dozen rich countries’ health systems shows the U.S. leading the pack on costs, but dead last on results. It has been the same story for three years running in a series of studies by the Cumberland Fund. And plenty of other...
Rubble to Riches
Toronto can eliminate its deficit by selling off unneeded city assets, such as highways and parking garages. Chicago is showing the way.
Iceland’s Tax Reduction Lesson for Canada
What's the best way to expand a welfare state, irrationally assuming for the moment that you want to expand a welfare state? Cut taxes. Especially cut corporate taxes. You will collect less revenue every time you nick a dollar but you will have many more dollars to...
The Cooling World
This cover story in the April 28th, 1975 issue of Newsweek worries about global cooling not warming.
Equalization: Deal or No Deal? Does it Matter?
An Ontario based policy expert outlines why Ontario can no longer sustain Canada’s flawed equalization system.