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.
Year: 2007
Environmental Policy: More Science and Less Religion Please
Environmental policies must reflect the uncertainty inherent in science and new information that is always being collected.
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...
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...
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
Three Stats You Just Can’t Be Without on a Saturday: The Week in Economics
Canada is awash in reports on the fiscal health of provincial and federal governments, but putting together a full picture of the balance sheets of the country's cities is next to impossible. Now, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a Prairie-based think tank, has...
Tough Medicine Tastes Terrible But it Works
A funny thing happened this week while I was at my local paint store. The gentleman serving me seemed anxious to tell me something or ask me a question. Once finished with the paint business he asked, "So, what's new in the world of politics"? Before I could answer he...
Disclosure by Municipalities ‘Unsatisfactory’
Canadian municipalities - particularly in Quebec - should adopt the practices of New Zealand municipalities when it comes to financial openness with the public, a small group of policymakers agreed yesterday. "The level of disclosure (by Canadian local governments) is...
Halifax’s Financial Picture Just So-So: Winnipeg Think-Tank
Halifax Regional Municipality is in pretty good financial shape, but it could be doing better. A new report from the Winnipeg-based think-tank Frontier Centre, which is the sister think-tank to the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, has compared the finances of...
City Taxes; The Onerous Job Ahead
As city officials discuss whether job cuts are required to hold the line on a tax increase residents in these lean times can ill afford, two new reports have painted Windsor as an area with higher taxes and costs than competing jurisdictions. A study released by the...
Spinning the Poverty Numbers — Again and Again
The LICO is not a poverty measure, and we wish everyone would please stop using it as one, says Statistics Canada.
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...