After hard won battles against real discrimination, Human Rights Commissions have become ironically repressive.
Year: 2007
On Religion and the Environment
Greetings, I enjoy receiving the email updates that are sent out from the Frontier Centre. I especially appreciate the work you have done in regard to the global warming bogeyman. Will Rogers said, when he was a kid, that he was always told anyone in America could...
Adaptation, Not Emission Cuts
Government officials from around the world have descended on the Indonesian resort island of Bali for two weeks of climate negotiations. The talk is of a new Kyoto-like treaty, with global caps on emissions of greenhouse gases. But such a treaty would harm the poor,...
McFadyen Will Tour Province to Stop Power Line
Provincial Opposition Leader Hugh McFadyen will spend two months touring rural and urban communities next year to muster support for what he says is the greatest policy blunder in Manitoba's history -- the decision to build a hydroelectric transmission line down the...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Inland port urged for Sask.
A Prairie inland port stands to offer Canadians a larger share of the global transportation industry at a more effective cost, while putting Saskatchewan on the map in the Prairie-to-ports gateway that would connect global markets to North America. An inland railway...
Don’t Fight, Adapt
An Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on climate change. It is signed by more than 100 specialists from around the world — many are leading figures in their fields, from climate science to economics to biology.
Regulation, Aid Not Solution to Climate Change – Report
A new report* released Monday December 3rd, produced by 41 institutes from around the world, concludes: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the coming two decades is not a cost-effective way to address climate change. Deaths from climate related natural disasters have...
Breakfast on the Frontier – International Trade -With Doug Campbell
Breakfast on the Frontier
Selected Media Coverage of the 2007 Local Government Performance Index
Newspaper Edmonton Journal - November 27, 2007 The Windsor Star - November 28, 2007 Vancouver Sun - November 28, 2007 The Montreal Gazette - November 28, 2007 The Halifax Daily News - November 29, 2007 Windsor Star - November 29, 2007 The Montreal Gazette - November...
A Global Warming Taxonomy of Birds
In the global warming debate there is a popular view that one is either a warmer or a sceptic. But, there is more to it than this, best illustrated by the global warming taxonomy of birds. First there are the geese who believe humans are dramatically changing global...
Happy Birthday, Sir Roger
It’s time to celebrate Sir Roger for his courage and pragmatic, if dramatic, policy leadership. “I don’t put labels on anything,” is a clue to why he was able to dance across the political spectrum and trample stereotypical expectations.
Sir Roger Douglas
An interview with policy visionary and Frontier Policy Advisory Board member Sir Roger Douglas from New Zealand.
More Ridiculous Ways to Save the Planet
If you’re drinking a cold one as you drive along speed-bump-lined streets from the divorce court to your job as a bagpiper in a music hall lit with incandescent bulbs ... Whew, there should be a special carbon tax just on you. In the past six weeks, several studies —...